[CP2K-user] [CP2K:13360] a question on the Kohn-Sham orbital expressed as Gaussian basis function, is the Kohn-Sham orbital translational invariant (obey periodicity)?

[hut... at chem.uzh.ch]

Hi

there is nothing special about local basis functions and PBC
in the GPW method. You can find the same reasonings in any 
approach using local basis functions (Gaussians, STO, numerical).

At the gamma point the basis functions can be considered infinite
sums of local functions replicated in all cells.
Energy is defined per unit cell and this means integrals are over
the unit cell only. As this is inconvenient, one tries to get them
converted into all space integrals over single functions only and then
summed over all combinations.

Check the many papers for details.

regards

Juerg Hutter
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Date: 05/23/2020 11:25AM
Subject: [CP2K:13360] a question on the Kohn-Sham orbital expressed as Gaussian basis function, is the Kohn-Sham orbital translational invariant (obey periodicity)?

Dear CP2K developers,

I have a question regarding the translational invariant of Kohn-Sham orbital in the Gaussian plane-wave method. 

The Kohn-Sham orbital should be translational invariant, and if we express the orbital using Gaussian basis function, these Gaussian basis function needs also be translational invariant, in the paper "A hybrid Gaussian and plane wave density functional scheme", by LIPPERT, HUTTER and PARRINELLO, MOLECULAR PHYSICS, 1997, VOL. 92, NO. 3, 477-487. The Kohn-Sham orbital has been expanded by Gaussian basis function which includes the periodicity. (Eq. 4 and 5 in the paper).

However, in the recent paper of CP2K, "QUICKSTEP: Fast and accurate density functional calculations using a mixed Gaussian and plane waves approach", Joost VandeVondele, Matthias Krack , Fawzi Mohamed , Michele Parrinello , Thomas Chassaing , Jürg Hutter, Computer Physics Communications 167 (2005) 103–128, from Eq. 1, the definition of electron density, has been expanded based on Gaussian basis function, but these Gaussian basis function has not mentioned to take account of periodicity. But if the Gaussian basis function has not taken account the periodicity, the electron density is not translational invariant. 

Could you please help me with Eq. 1 regarding the periodicity of electron density in this recent paper of C2PK? 

Thank you very much!

Fangyong

  
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