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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Perhaps this is a bit off-topic,
</span><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">there is an issue when comparing LDA+U results in 2D-materials between Quantum-ESPRESSO and VASP.</span></font></div>
<div class="">For V2C monolayers, CrI3 mono- and bi-layers, the magnetic <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">stability </span>changes and it is impossible to reproduce the results.</div>
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<div class="">For the V2C monolayer with U = 4 eV, while with quantum-ESPRESSO (US and PBE), I find that the ground-state </div>
<div class="">(GS) solution is FM and the AF solution is about 1 eV above; with VASP U=4 eV (LDATYPE=2), I find that the GS solution </div>
<div class="">is AF and the FM state is 1 eV above (in agreement with <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp507336x" class="">
dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp507336x</a>). </div>
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Following the discussion on the implementation of Hubbard's interaction: <a href="https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2020-May/044521.html" class="">https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2020-May/044521.html</a></div>
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">There, it is suggested that in QE the Hubbard-U tends to decrease the gap, while in VASP it tends to open it.</div>
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<div class="">And inspired by the discussion <a href="http://grandcentral.apam.columbia.edu:5555/tutorials/dft_procedures/linear_response_u/index.html" class="">
http://grandcentral.apam.columbia.edu:5555/tutorials/dft_procedures/linear_response_u/index.html</a> </div>
<div class="">there they mention an "empirically is a difference in sign convention". I tried a VASP calculation with U = -4 eV, and I found an </div>
<div class="">FM GS-solution followed by an AF solution 0.3 eV above, following the QE stability order.</div>
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<div class="">From my experience comparing QE results with CrI3 experiments, it seems that QE uses the proper sign convention for the U term. </div>
<div class="">However, I do not have any evidence for this.</div>
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<div class="">I am currently exploring the use of hybrid functionals to address this issue, is there an elegant way to settle this dispute?</div>
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<div class="">Best,</div>
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