Crystalline aluminum †

This tutorial explains how to perform the convergence study with respect to the number of k-points and smearing width, and how to analyze the electronic structure, i.e., band structure and density of states.

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Convergence study †

Metallic systems have the Fermi surface, and to handle it, STATE uses the smearing technique with various smearing functions and the tetrahedron method. Furthermore, the number of k-points to sample the Brillouin zone can be critical for the accurate calculation of the metallic systems.

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Convergence with respect to the number of k-points †

Here we present the convergence of the total energy with respect to the number of k-points with the Methefeesel-Paxton smearing (default) and tetrahedron methods. Use negative WIDTH (e.g. -0.02) to activate the Methefessel-Paxton smearing (with positive value, a parabolic function is used to treat the Fermi level and the entropic term is not taken into account).

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Convergence with respect to the smearing width †

Total (free) energy of the metallic system is sensitive to the smearing width, in particular, with the Gaussian and Fermi-Dirac function. Here we demonstrate the smearing width dependence of the total energy, following the seminal work by de Gironcoli [Phys. Rev. B51, 6773(R) (1995)].

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