I forgot to attach the bandgap vs cutoff plot. We can see the big jump clearly from this graph.<br> yuan ping <br> university of california, Davis<br>
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Hi,<br> I met a problem with cutoff convergence when I ran the Si nanowire self consistent calculation to get the lda band gap.<br> I found a big jump 0.3-0.4ev of band gap at 45Ry. Before and after this point, the band gap curve is flat.<br>
(HOMO does not change much, but lumo had a big jump. )<br> And the position of this jump will shift with different structure (before I relaxed the structure, this big jump was at 30Ry.) <br> I used Si.pz-vbc.UPF, H.pz-vbc.UPF, poseudopotential to run this calculation.<br>
I found similar thing when I calculate silane band gap. The jump of 0.4ev happens at 60-65Ry. And I used the same poseudopotential to calculate.<br> So what can be the reason for this big jump in band gap with respect to cutoff?<br>
thank you very much!<br> yuan ping<br> university of california, Davis<br>
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