Ni

Functional : LDA Ceperley/Alder Perdew/Zunger (1980)

Projection : Mulliken dipole

Calculation the bulk modulus obtained by fitting to the Murnaghan equation. The energy is plotted relative to the minimum energy for each case, -1043.11 eV/atom in Fireball and -1368.36 eV/atom for Quantum espresso using the pseudopotentials Ni.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF . a0 and B0 are the equilibrium lattice constant and bulk modulus obtained by fitting to the Murnaghan equation of state.

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Calculation the band dispersion for the fcc structure with the lattice constant of 4.5 Å

Fireball

bandas for Fireball

Quamtum espresso

bandas

The cut off radio of the orbitals in Fireball are rs = 6.0 (bohr), rp = 6.0 (bohr), rd = 6.0 (bohr), and was generate like qs = 1.9, qp = 0.0, qd = 6.8, .

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Other basis
Base Functional Projection method Crystal structure Lattice parameter (Å) Bulk modulus (GPa)
Nis190600p000600d680600 LDA Weighted LWeighted Lowdinouml;wdin fcc 3.513 208
Nis175650p000650d690650 LDA Löwdin fcc 3.524 189
Nis200650p000650d675650 LDA Mulliken dipole fcc 3.528 198
Nis000700p000700d770700 GGA Weighted LWeighted Lowdinouml;wdin fcc 3.533 281
Nis000700p000700d750700 GGA Löwdin fcc 3.537 297
Nis000700p000700d770700 GGA Mulliken dipole fcc 3.533 281

The LDA calculation is done with the ncpp file to obtain 028.pp pseudopotential :

ncpp.psot ncpp.psot

The GGA calculation is done with the ncpp file to obtain 028.pp pseudopotential :

ncpp.psot ncpp.psot