[Pw_forum] Using martyna-tuckerman with VdW functionals

[Paolo Giannozzi]

Martyna-Tuckerman acts on the electrostatic (Hartree) potential only.
I don't think there is any danger in using it together with vdW-DF
functionals, as long as you use it for a non-periodic system

Paolo

On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 11:23 -0400, xiaochuan Ge wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> I have no experience of using assumu_isolate=martyna-tuckerman in the
> scf calculation, but I am afraid that MT is not straightforward with a
> non-local functional. Being not confident to use it blindly, I would
> like to ask if anyone can give some comments, may I use MT with VdW as
> in the case of LDA?  
> 
> 
> I appreciate your help very much. 
> 
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> Dr. Xiaochuan Ge (Giovanni)
> Center for Functional Nanomaterials
> Brookhaven national laboratory 
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