Thomas Bischoff^1*, Igor Reshetnyak^1*, Alfredo Pasquarello^1*

1 Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: thomas.bischoff@epfl.ch, igor.reshetnyak@epfl.ch, alfredo.pasquarello@epfl.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:2019.0039/v1 [version v1]

Publication date: Aug 08, 2019

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Thomas Bischoff, Igor Reshetnyak, Alfredo Pasquarello, Adjustable potential probes for band-gap predictions of extended systems through nonempirical hybrid functionals, Materials Cloud Archive 2019.0039/v1 (2019), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:2019.0039/v1

Description

We describe a nonempirical procedure for achieving accurate band gaps of extended systems through the insertion of suitably defined potential probes. By enforcing Koopmans' condition on the resulting localized electronic states, we determine the optimal fraction of Fock exchange to be used in the adopted hybrid functional. As potential probes, we consider point defects, the hydrogen interstitial, and various adjustable potentials that allow us to vary the energy level of the localized state in the band gap. By monitoring the delocalized screening charge, we achieve a measure of the degree of hybridization with the band states, which can be used to improve the band-gap estimate. Application of this methodology to AlP, C, and MgO yields band gaps differing by less than 0.2 eV from experiment.

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File name	Size	Description
localprobe_05bohr.upf MD5md5:0a6b951e4ae6d4ae3a622b01e482f4bb	59.6 KiB	Pseudopotential (in upf-format) for a local potential probe with sigma = 0.5 bohr
nonlocalprobe_m125Ry.upf MD5md5:1ae15314e3027e6ef8027ec2d7b17fc4	69.8 KiB	Pseudopotential (in upf-format) for a nonlocal potential probe with D = -12.5 Ry
scripts_finitesize_corrections.zip MD5md5:8c3bcf6228eb7bd82ebf41eb1b63d95c	6.4 KiB	Matlab scripts of the finite-size correction scheme
AlP_Hinterstitial_neutral_alpha02.in MD5md5:ae725d82e4a656664e0a0ad860c089bc	3.3 KiB	QE input file (and coordinates) for a neutral hydrogen interstitial in AlP
C_Hinterstitial_neutral_alpha02.in MD5md5:6c788af4142dd0e8d99090b9bd87159b	3.3 KiB	QE input file (and coordinates) for a neutral hydrogen interstitial in C
MgO_Hinterstitial_neutral_alpha035.in MD5md5:ec50b55fe72a699778bc2767f362b0f9	3.2 KiB	QE input file (and coordinates) for a neutral hydrogen interstitial in MgO

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Keywords

First principles Band gap Hybrid functional Point defect Potential probe