A linear response approach to the calculation of the effective interaction parameters in the LDA+U method

2004/05/07 by Matteo Cococcioni, Stefano de Gironcoli · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.71.035105

18 pages, 18 figures, 3 tables

arxiv created 2004/05/07 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

In this work we reexamine the LDA+U method of Anisimov and coworkers in the framework of a plane-wave pseudopotential approach. A simplified rotational-invariant formulation is adopted. The calculation of the Hubbard U entering the expression of the functional is discussed and a linear response approach is proposed that is internally consistent with the chosen definition for the occupation matrix of the relevant localized orbitals. In this way we obtain a scheme whose functionality should not depend strongly on the particular implementation of the model in ab-initio calculations. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method, computing structural and electronic properties of a few systems including transition and rare-earth correlated metals, transition metal monoxides and iron-silicate.

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