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Back ground charge

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:57 pm
by szvasp
Dear Vasp user,

A reasonable adsorption energy (-3.58 eV) could be found in a normal molecule adsorption on a metallic surface when the system is neutral, however, in the protonated version of this molecule on the identical surface when the whole system is not any more neutral, the result is unreasonably high (-259.496 eV). To protonate the molecule I used "NELECT" tag hoping for a homogeneous background charge that could compensate the charge making the whole system neutral again, but I think the "NELECT" does not work promisingly, anybody has any experience with, please? How about plugging a counter-ion somewhere in the system (unit cell) to neutralize the system instead of "NELECT"?

Cheers,
S.Zarrini

Re: Back ground charge

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:45 pm
by admin
When working with charged systems be aware of necessary corrections:
(1) Phys. Rev. B 89,045116 (2014)
(2) Phys. Rev. B 91,024107 (2015)
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=17035&p=17539&hilit=charged+systems#p17539
The neutralization of the system could be a good idea,
certainly worth of checking.