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Ehrenfest dynamics with localized atomic-orbital basis sets within the projector augmented-wave method
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Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 162, issue 12, pp. 1-8
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Density functional theory with linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) basis sets is useful for studying large atomic systems, especially when it comes to computationally highly demanding time-dependent dynamics. We have implemented the Ehrenfest molecular dynamics (ED) method with the approximate approach of Tomfohr and Sankey within the projector augmented-wave code GPAW. We apply this method to small molecules as well as larger periodic systems and elucidate its limits, advantages, and disadvantages in comparison with the existing implementation of Ehrenfest dynamics with a real-space grid representation. For modest atomic velocities, LCAO-ED shows satisfactory accuracy at a much reduced computational cost. This method will be particularly useful for modeling ion irradiation processes that require large amounts of vacuum in the simulation cell.
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Zobač, V, Kuisma, M, Larsen, A H, Rossi, T & Susi, T 2025, 'Ehrenfest dynamics with localized atomic-orbital basis sets within the projector augmented-wave method', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 162, no. 12, 124117, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0252559