Vanadium

Datasets:

name

valence electrons

frozen core electrons

default

13

10

'5'

5

18

13 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-5363.208

2s

2

-602.533

2p

6

-503.170

3s

2

-70.222

2.37

4s

2

-4.702

2.37

3p

6

-44.043

2.42

4p

0

-1.444

2.42

3d

3

-5.164

2.21

d

0

22.047

2.21

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

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0005

0.18

0.0005

0.20

0.0006

5 valence electrons

Radial cutoffs and eigenvalues:

id

occ

eig [eV]

cutoff [Bohr]

1s

2

-5363.208

2s

2

-602.533

2p

6

-503.170

3s

2

-70.223

3p

6

-44.043

4s

2

-4.702

2.50

4p

0

-1.444

2.40

3d

3

-5.164

2.00

s

0

22.510

2.50

p

0

25.767

2.40

d

0

22.047

2.00

The figure shows convergence of the absolute energy (blue line) and atomization energy (orange line) of a V 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/V.5.png

Egg-box errors in finite-difference mode:

grid-spacing [Å]

energy error [eV]

0.16

0.0013

0.18

0.0019

0.20

0.0045