<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I performed this test for a TiO2 Rutile structure with 6 atoms per cellI, along a path in a random direction with 0.001 Ang step size and with a total of 501 steps. I used 3 different settings: DFT without U, DFT+U with U_projection_type = ‘atomic’ (U=4.7147), and DFT+U with U_projection_type = 'ortho-atomic’ (U=4.7147). In the case of No-U and ‘atomic’, the relative error of the path integral and energy difference is less than1.d-4%, as expected when the forces are correct. But for 'ortho-atomic’ the relative error is a whopping 8%! This indicates that the forces are not the exact derivatives of the energy for U_projection_type = 'ortho-atomic’ (see also plot below, note that the y scale is logarithmic for the last two subplots).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>