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Self-consistent treatment of spin-orbit coupling in solids using relativistic fully separable ab initio pseudopotentials

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
We describe the implementation of total angular momentum dependent pseudopotentials in a plane wave formulation of density functional theory. Our approach thus goes beyond the scalar-relativistic approximation usually made in ab initio pseudopotential calculations and explicitly includes spin-orbit coupling. We outline the necessary extensions and compare the results to available all-electron calculations and experimental data.
Sponsoring Organization:
(US)
OSTI ID:
40230866
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 64; ISSN 0163-1829
Publisher:
The American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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