Augmented atom

Fig. 1.34 All possible fragments in a compound (all sequences of atoms from 2-7 atoms, augmented atoms, atom pairs)...

Furthermore, we make use of a TB approximation, Wj I d> > so that it is nonvanishing only when and/or is centered at Rj. Then the binding energy is approximated as the differences between the single-particle energies of the occupied orbitals of the compound and those of isolated atoms augmented with short-range pair potentials. 

Figure B3.2.4. A schematic illustration of an energy-independent augmented plane wave basis fimction used in the LAPW method. The black sine fimction represents the plane wave, the localized oscillations represent the augmentation of the fimction inside the atomic spheres used for the solution of the Sclirodinger equation. The nuclei are represented by filled black circles. In the lower part of the picture, the crystal potential is sketched.

The projector augmented-wave (PAW) DFT method was invented by Blochl to generalize both the pseudopotential and the LAPW DFT teclmiques [M]- PAW, however, provides all-electron one-particle wavefiinctions not accessible with the pseudopotential approach. The central idea of the PAW is to express the all-electron quantities in tenns of a pseudo-wavefiinction (easily expanded in plane waves) tenn that describes mterstitial contributions well, and one-centre corrections expanded in tenns of atom-centred fiinctions, that allow for the recovery of the all-electron quantities. The LAPW method is a special case of the PAW method and the pseudopotential fonnalism is obtained by an approximation. Comparisons of the PAW method to other all-electron methods show an accuracy similar to the FLAPW results and an efficiency comparable to plane wave pseudopotential calculations [, ]. PAW is also fonnulated to carry out DFT dynamics, where the forces on nuclei and wavefiinctions are calculated from the PAW wavefiinctions. (Another all-electron DFT molecular dynamics teclmique using a mixed-basis approach is applied in [84].)... 

The database approaches are heavily dependent on the size and quality of the database, particularly on the availability of entries that are related to the query structure. Such an approach is relatively fast it is possible to predict the H NMR spectrum of a molecule with 50-100 atoms in a few seconds. The predicted values can be explained on the basis of the structures that were used for the predictions. Additionally, users can augment the database with their own structures and experimental data, allowing improved predictions for compounds bearing similarities to those added. 

APW (augmented plane wave) a band structure computation method atomic mass unit (amu) atomic unit of mass... 

Sometimes it turns out that we need to include a number of polarization functions, not just one of each type. The notation 4-31G(3d, 2p) indicates a standard 4-31G basis set augmented with three d-type primitive Cartesian Gaussians per centre and two p-type primitives on every hydrogen atom. Again, details of the... 

Crl, Grr, A r and A r are the potential parameters of the constituents A and B of the alloy, S r r r, is the structure matrix in the most localized representation, tir are local site-occupation variables which randomly takes value 1 or 0 according to whether the site is occupied by an atom of type A or not, with probabilities proportional to the concentrations of the constituents. According to the prescription of the augmented space formalism, the effective non-random Hamiltonian H in augmented space is then... 

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