<div dir="ltr"><div>I heard second-hand rumors that an implementation exists in CP. The big problem with meta-GGAs is their numerical instability.<br><br></div>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Neven Golenić <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nevensky@hdd.hr" target="_blank">nevensky@hdd.hr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Hello,</div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I was wondering if there were any plans on implementing the SCAN functional in future versions of QE?</div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">It appears to be a very good meta-GGA functional that yields surprisingly accurate results, especially for non-covalentnly bound structures and is therefore quite useful for calculations of supramolecular complexes.</div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Here is a link to the publication:</div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.036402" target="_blank">http://journals.aps.org/prl/<wbr>abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.<wbr>115.036402</a></div><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div><br></div>The benefits of this functional were also highlighted in Nature Chemistry:<div><a href="http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v8/n9/abs/nchem.2535.html" target="_blank">http://www.nature.com/nchem/<wbr>journal/v8/n9/abs/nchem.2535.<wbr>html</a></div><div><br><div id="m_7452861468679441054bloop_sign_1476177029117507072" class="m_7452861468679441054bloop_sign"><div>— </div><div>Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Neven</font></span></div></div></div></div>
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