<div dir="ltr">To whom it may concern,<div> I noticed an anomaly with the psp Ti.pbe-mt_fhi.UPF in the library. Its valence configuration reads as:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"> nl pn l occ Rcut Rcut US E pseu
4s 4 0 2.00 0.000 0.000 0.000000
4p 4 1 2.00 0.000 0.000 0.000000
3d 3 2 0.00 0.000 0.000 0.000000
4f 4 3 0.00 0.000 0.000 0.000000</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"> I personally think the occupancy for 4p and 3d are incorrect. The correct occupancy might be 4p: 0.00 and 3d: 2.00. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">I am not sure whether this is indeed the correct psp or a bug in the psp. </span>I want to double check with the community, since it is a psp converted from the Abinit web site. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"> </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"> A related question to this problem is that in the current implementation of DFT+U in QE, the occupancy for the 'correlated orbital' must have an occupancy larger than 0. Therefore for this psp of Ti, I can not turn on U on its d orbital. I am just curious, is "occupancy of the correlated orbital > 0" a strict condition? Can we make it "occupancy of the correlated orbital >= 0"? I manually changed the source code and it seems that there is no major difference as I have observed. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"> Thank you very much for your time.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"> Best regards.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Hanghui Chen</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Assistant Professor of Physics</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">New York University Shanghai</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Email: <a href="mailto:hanghui.chen@nyu.edu">hanghui.chen@nyu.edu</a></div></pre></div></div>