Magnesium

Datasets:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

10

2

'2'

2

10

10 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-1259.533

2s

2

-79.840

2.06

3s

2

-4.705

2.06

2p

6

-46.613

2.05

3p

0

-1.330

2.05

d

0

0.000

1.96

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Mg dimer relative to completely converged numbers (plane-wave calculation at 1500 eV). Also shown are finite-difference and LCAO (dzp) calculations at gridspacings 0.143 Å, 0.167 Å and 0.200 Å.

../_images/Mg.default.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0006

0.18

0.0015

0.20

0.0011

2 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-1259.533

2s

2

-79.840

2p

6

-46.613

3s

2

-4.705

1.90

3p

0

-1.330

2.00

s

0

22.506

1.90

p

0

25.881

2.00

d

0

0.000

1.90

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Mg dimer relative to completely converged numbers (plane-wave calculation at 1500 eV). Also shown are finite-difference and LCAO (dzp) calculations at gridspacings 0.143 Å, 0.167 Å and 0.200 Å.

../_images/Mg.2.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0003

0.18

0.0003

0.20

0.0009