<div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>I am a new user of Quantum-Espresso (QE) and I am trying to study the adsorption energy of lithium ions in graphite. I want to reproduce some calculations from other people (Persson), to ensure that I am using the right parameters.<br>
<br>In this system the Van der Waals (vdw) interactions play an important role and I want to know more about vdw in QE.<br>In her work Persson (Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (9), pp 4624–4628) says that there are two approacches to include vdw interactions:<br>
- "DFT-D2 approach, which adds a semiempirical pairwise force field"<br>- "vdW-DF approach, which adds a nonlocal correlation functional that approximately account for dispersion interactions"<br>which approach use by QE?<br>
<br>I am using espresso-4.3.2. In my calculations I use:<br><br>&SYSTEM<br>...<br> london = .true.,<br> london_rcut =200,<br> london_s6 =0.75,<br><br>and <br><br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> C 12.0107 C.pw91-van_ak.UPF<br>
Li 6.939 Li.pw91-n-van.UPF<br><br>I cant reproduce Persson calculations, but I dont know where is the problem.<br><br>It is OK to use this parametres with this pseudopotentials?<br>I have tryed changing the parametres but my calculations do not improve.<br>
<br>QE enables to change other parameters?<br><br>Thanks in advance for any help.<br><br></div>Manuel<br></div>