<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi David;</span><br style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I think that the variable-cell relaxation has nothing to do with all-electron or pseudo-potential <font face="verdana,sans-serif">approaches. Variable-cell means that you relax not only the atomic positions but also the shape and the size of the unit cell. <br>
In your situation you may probably try an all-electron method </font></span><font face="verdana,sans-serif">or as said by Giuseppe try a PAW calculations and extract core electrons wave-functions<br><br>Best<br><br><br></font><div dir="ltr">
<font><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/13 David Grifith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.grifith@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.grifith@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><pre>On <i>Thu Dec 13 14:41:31</i> Giuseppe wrote:</pre><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<pre>Dear David
No, I'm afraid you can't do all electron calculations by using QE. You can imagine that the
representation of a core wavefunction by means of a linear combination of plane waves is a desperate
task... You can perform different kinds of variable-cell calculation instead (but always in a plane-
wave/pseudopotential framework). PAW pseudopotentials, also implemented in QE, permits, at a certain
extent, the calculation of properties related to core electrons, like the reconstruction of the core
electronic density (and probably more, but I do not know very well all the PAW features).
HTH
Giuseppe </pre></blockquote><br></div> Thanks for your reply. I am going to check that the core electrons change when we apply very high pressure or temperature and as we guess the plane-wave-pseudo potential approach may not give me the right answer. So I would like to see how the core electrons alter in such circumstances. Is there any way to investigate such probable changes ? Many Thanks, David <br>
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<br><br>-- <br>Sincerely Yours<br>David G.<br></div>JCU<br><br>
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