<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much.<br><br><br clear="all"><div dir="ltr">Ali Tavana, PhD.,<br>Assistant Prof.,<br>Department of Physics,<br>University of Mohaghegh Ardabili,<br>Ardabil, Iran.<br><br>TEL: +98 451 5512081 (2430)<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:giannozz@democritos.it">giannozz@democritos.it</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:22 , Ali Tavana wrote:<br>
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&gt; I am looking for the reference paper for the VCA implementation<br>
&gt; in QE (i.e. virtual.x code).<br>
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there is no such paper. This is the VCA implementation in QE,<br>
if I remember correctly:<br>
    V^{(vca)} = V_{loc)^{(vca)} + V_{nl}^{(vca)}<br>
where<br>
    V_{loc)^{(vca)} = x V_{loc}^{(1)} + (1-x) V_{loc}^{(2)}<br>
and<br>
    V_{nl)^{(vca)} = \sum_{ij} |\beta^{(1)}_i&gt; x D^{(1)}_{ij} &lt;\beta^<br>
{(1)}_j|<br>
                      +  \sum_{ij} |\beta^{(2)}_i&gt; (1-x) D^{(2)}_{ij}<br>
&lt;\beta^{(2)}_j|<br>
where<br>
  V_{loc}^{(n)}(r) is the local part of PP n ;<br>
  \beta^{{n)}_i(r) are the projectors for PP n ;<br>
  D^{(n))_{ij} are the (bare) components of matrix D for PP n<br>
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P.<br>
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Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Chemistry&amp;Physics&amp;Environment,<br>
Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br>
Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222<br>
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