[CP2K-user] [CP2K:13013] Pseudopotential Energy

[Nicholas Winner]

Thank you for your reply Jurg. If you could help clear up one more thing, 
it would be greatly appreciated:

The reason I ask is because I have normally used VASP, but am now moving to 
CP2K. In VASP, if I wanted to calculate the energy change from inserting, 
say, an extra proton, I would run two MD simulations for the system with 
and without the proton and take the difference in average total energy. 
However, if I do this with CP2K, I get huge differences in energy (100s of 
eV), and I would assume this is because VASP subtracts the pseudopotential 
energy (in POTCAR, this is EATOM) from the final energy, so it simplifies 
the process. So, based on your response, to get a comparable energy 
difference, the pseudopotential energies need to be subtracted away.

Assuming the above reasoning is correct, is the energy that I would need to 
subtract away the "Total Pseudopotential Energy" reported in the output 
file? Or is it "Total Energy"? (Output snipped copied below to make sure 
we're on the same page).


 *******************************************************************************
>                   Iteration          Convergence                     
> Energy [au]
>
>  *******************************************************************************
>                           1         1.95724                     
> -22.935453470232
>                           2         3.60956                     
> -22.583740788889
>                           3        0.253659                     
> -23.931824925834
>                           4        0.902351E-02                 
> -23.939137392463
>                           5        0.379871E-02                 
> -23.939145271550
>                           6        0.239125E-02                 
> -23.939146295400
>                           7        0.381467E-04                 
> -23.939146966990
>                           8        0.294202E-04                 
> -23.939146967060
>                           9        0.244973E-06                 
> -23.939146967163
>  Energy components [Hartree]           Total Energy ::          
> -23.939146967163
>                                         Band Energy ::           
> -4.144745339043
>                                      Kinetic Energy ::           
> 18.766431444860
>                                    Potential Energy ::          
> -42.705578412022
>                                       Virial (-V/T) ::            
> 2.275636608777
>                                         Core Energy ::          
> -40.734809390282
>                                           XC Energy ::           
> -4.364157452591
>                                      Coulomb Energy ::           
> 21.159819875711
>                        Total Pseudopotential Energy ::          
> -59.535272206307
>                        Local Pseudopotential Energy ::          
> -61.232887828991
>                     Nonlocal Pseudopotential Energy ::            
> 1.697615622685
>                                         Confinement ::            
> 0.340313711650


Thank you in advance.

-Nick

On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 3:00:38 AM UTC-7, jgh wrote:
>
> Hi 
>
> CP2K energies include all terms depending on the valence density, 
> no constant atomic energy is added/subtracted. 
>
> See the base publications for a detailed definition. 
>
> This means that total energies depend strongly on the pseudo potentials 
> used. 
>
> regards 
>
> Juerg Hutter 
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> Subject: [CP2K:13013] Pseudopotential Energy 
>
> Does CP2K subtract away the pseudopotential energy when calculating total 
> energy in an SCF cycle? 
>
> So the actual total energy would then be the reported total energy minus 
> the sum of the pseudopotential energies? 
>
> I think I read somewhere on this forum that it does not, but cannot seem 
> to find it. 
>
> Thanks for the help, 
> Nick Winner   
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