Sandro,<br><br>I am replying to this old e-mail now because the funds have become available to do some work in this area.<br><br>I looked in Paolo Focher's thesis and there are some very helpful equations, so thank you. However, the eqn.'s are limited to LDA.
<br><br>Does anyone know where I could find the relevant equation(s) for the GGA functional contribution to the stress tensor? I imagine it should not be that different from LDA, but I want to be sure.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scandolo Sandro</b> <<a href="mailto:scandolo@ictp.it">scandolo@ictp.it</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A number of useful formulae can be found in Paolo Focher's thesis (1994)<br>(dowloadable from <a href="http://www.sissa.it/cm/phd.php">http://www.sissa.it/cm/phd.php</a> ), as well as in a<br>subsequent publication:<br>
<br>Paolo Focher and Guido L. Chiarotti<br>Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics simulations of structural phase transitions<br>in ``Progress in Computational Physics of Matter'', eds. L. Reatto and F.<br>Manghi, p. 1-42, World Scientific, Singapore, (1995).
<br><br>(I can fax you the relevant pages of the latter when I'm back to Trieste,<br>late August).<br><br>Best regards,<br>Sandro<br><br><br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I and another post-doc are working on implementing a non-local
<br>> functional into PWSCF. It is of the general form:<br>> E_xc[n(r)] = \int dr dr' n(r) phi(r,r') n(r')<br>><br>> where n(r) and phi(r,r') are the charge density and a kernel,<br>> respectively.
<br>><br>> Forces require calculating V_xc which is analytically complicated, but<br>> has already been done. The next quantity that we want to compute is<br>> the stress tensor.<br>><br>> Does any happen to have any notes on calculating the stress tensor in
<br>> a PW basis set?<br>><br>> I looked at the original paper on calculating the stress:<br>><br>> O. H. Nielsen and R. M. Martin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 697 (1983).<br>><br>> Eqn. 3 contains the V_xc (mu_xc in their notation) and it also
<br>> contains epsilon_xc which is the exchange-correlation energy per<br>> particle which cannot be easily written down in a closed analytic form<br>> for a non-local functional (I think). Otherwise, I don't see any
<br>> higher derivatives of E_xc in the the expression for the stress.<br>><br>> Does anyone have any useful references?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> --<br>> Nichols A. Romero, Ph.D.<br>> 1613 Denise Dr. Apt. D
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