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madelung correction for charged system

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:17 am
by nwan
According to vasp manual, vasp use following formula.
http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp/vasp/M ... SILON.html
E_{madelung} = e^2q^2alpha/Lepsilon


However, correction term in original paper, G. Makov and M.C.Payne, Phys. Rev. B 51, 4014 (1995), is smaller by a factor of 1/2.

What am I missing?
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madelung correction for charged system

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:15 am
by tlchan
Maybe one formula uses Hartree as the units, and the other uses Rydberg. This can cause a factor of 2 difference.