Questions tagged [dispersion-correction]
Questions related to corrections due to dispersion effects in matter modeling.
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Are dispersion correction methods for DFT (such as D3) useful for geometry optimization?
For what I know the DFT-D3 method or similar corrections that take into account dispersion effect, add this type of contribution through calculation of atom pairwise interactions at the end of an ...
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Calculation of dispersion energies for organometallic complexes with Gaussian
I've tried to calculate dispersion energies of some organometallic complexes with the Gaussian software using WB97XD/Gen (...
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What are the TS, MBD keywords for new (5.4.+) VASP versions?
I tried IVDW = 2202 for MBD as mentioned on the website but I got the following error:
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SCAN-RVV10 geometry optimization
I'm using SCAN-RVV10 to optimize the hexagonal-BN but the optimized geometry doesn't look true as the calculated interlayer distance is far smaller than the experimental value(exp=3.35 Aangstrom, calc=...
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Dispersion correction and band structure
Let's say I optimized geometry with PBE+D3. I want to carry out band structure calculation with HSE06, should I add the dispersion correction to the band structure calculation or not?
I tried both and ...
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How does MBD (MBD-NL) differ from DFT-TS?
Is anyone familiar with Tkatchenko's new MBD-NL method? How does it differ from DFT-TS? I couldn't understand everything from the paper.
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Band structure with additive dispersion methods
Let's say I optimized geometry with PBE+D3, does it matter if I make single point bandstructure calculation with just PBE or PBE+D3 since D3 is a additive method.
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Best vdW correction functional for transition metal dichalcogenides
For relaxation of transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g.: WS2) using the VASP code, what is the best choice for vdW correction method (e.g.: DFT-D2, DFT-D3 or optB88-vdW) that can give you good ...
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Difference between Van der Waals (DFT-D and DFT-D3) corrections in ab-initio calculations
In Kohn-Sham DFT calculations, Van der Waals corrections are often implemented in the structure optimization calculations because the typical functionals such as LDA and GGA are found to not treat ...
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What are the different ways of calculating dispersion constants?
There are many different dispersion corrections out there. The most famous is D3 [1] (and the new D4 [2]), but there's probably other approaches too. The dispersion energy can be written as:
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