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Title: Exchange–correlation errors at harmonic and anharmonic orders: the case of bulk Cu
Authors: Pushpa, Raghani
Narasimhan, Shobhana
Keywords: anharmonicity
density functional theory
exchange
correlation
copper
Generalized Gradient Approximation
Lattice-Dynamics
Metals
Issue Date: Jan-2003
Publisher: Indian Academy Of Sciences
Citation: Bulletin Of Materials Science 26(1), 75-78 (2003)
Abstract: As an aid towards improving the treatment of exchange and correlation effects in electronic structure calculations, it is desirable to have a clear picture of the errors introduced by currently popular approximate exchange-correlation functionals. We have performed ab initio density functional theory and density functional perturbation theory calculations to investigate the thermal properties of bulk Cu, using both the local density approximation (LDA) and the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). Thermal effects are treated within the quasiharmonic approximation. We rind that the LDA and GGA errors for anharmonic quantities are an order of magnitude smaller than for harmonic quantities; we argue that this might be a general feature. We also obtain much closer agreement with experiment than earlier, more approximate calculations.
URI: https://libjncir.jncasr.ac.in/xmlui/10572/359
Other Identifiers: 0250-4707
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