Nickel

Datasets:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

16

12

'10'

10

18

16 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-8208.663

2s

2

-981.546

2p

6

-844.714

3s

2

-111.022

4s

2

-5.642

2.20

3p

6

-71.394

2.28

4p

0

-1.226

2.28

3d

8

-8.875

2.15

s

0

21.570

2.20

d

0

18.337

2.15

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Ni 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/Ni.default.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0007

0.18

0.0008

0.20

0.0012

10 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-8208.663

2s

2

-981.546

2p

6

-844.714

3s

2

-111.022

3p

6

-71.394

4s

2

-5.642

1.80

4p

0

-1.226

1.90

3d

8

-8.875

1.80

s

0

21.570

1.80

p

0

25.986

1.90

d

0

18.337

1.80

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a Ni 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/Ni.10.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0043

0.18

0.0113

0.20

0.0037