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Resta-like preconditioning for self-consistent field iterations in the linearized augmented planewave method

Jongmin Kim·Matthias M. May
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Convergence in self-consistent-field cycles can be a major computational bottleneck of density-functional theory calculations. We propose a Resta-like preconditioning method for full-potential all-electron calculations in the linearized augmented planewave (LAPW) method to smoothly converge to self-consistency. We implemented this preconditioner in the exciting code and apply it to the two semiconducting systems of MoS$_2$ slabs and P-rich GaP(100) surfaces as well as the metallic system Au(111), containing a sufficiently large amount of vacuum. Our calculations demonstrate that the implemented scheme performs reliably as well as more efficiently regardless of system size, suppressing long-range charge sloshing. While the suitability of this preconditioning higher for semiconducting systems, the convergence for metals is only slightly decreased and thus still trustworthy to apply. Furthermore, a mixing algorithm with the preconditioner shows an improvement over that with the Kerker preconditioner for the investigated semiconducting systems.

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Jongmin Kim, Matthias M. May. 2022-05-23. Resta-like preconditioning for self-consistent field iterations in the linearized augmented planewave method. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075%2Faca24a

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