Electronic structure methods adiabatic approximation

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As most of the electronic structure simulation methods, we start with the Born-Oppenheimer approximation to decouple the ionic and electronic degrees of freedom. The ions are treated classically, while the electrons are described by quantum mechanics. The electronic wavefunctions are solved in the instantaneous potential created by the ions, and are assumed to evolve adiabatically during the ionic dynamics, so as to remain on the Born-Oppenheimer surface. Beyond this, the most basic approximations of the method concern the treatment of exchange and correlation (XC) and the use of pseudopotentials. XC is treated within Kohn-Sham DFT [3]. Both the local (spin) density approximation (LDA/LSDA) [16] and the generalized gradients approximation (GGA) [17] are implemented. The pseudopotentials are standard norm-conserving [18, 19], treated in the fully non-local form proposed by Kleinman and Bylander [20]. 

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