[CP2K-user] [CP2K:19365] Isolate dispersion contribution in vdW-DF2 calculations

[Jürg Hutter]

Hi

the printed dispersion energy is the calculated energy of the non-local
vdW energy functional (only the non-local part!). Together with the XC
energy you get the full functional energy. No other information is available.

regards
JH

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From: cp2k at googlegroups.com <cp2k at googlegroups.com> on behalf of Michael Fischer <doktorbrezel at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 10:16 AM
To: cp2k
Subject: [CP2K:19362] Isolate dispersion contribution in vdW-DF2 calculations

Dear all,

I am studying host-guest systems (molecules in zeolites) with the rev-vdW-DF2 functional (X_B86_R, PW92 correlation, LMKLL dispersion) and I am looking at the possibility to calculate the dispersion contribution to the total interaction energy.

In the past, I have used Grimme-type dispersion correction, e.g., PBE-D3. Here, it was fairly trivial to calculate the dispersion contribution as:
E_disp = E_disp(host+guest) - E_disp(host) - E_disp(guest)
...where the E_disp terms on the right-hand side correspond to the energy values given in the line "Dispersion energy" in the CP2K output.

With rev-vdW-DF2, "Dispersion energy" is also printed. However, what is notable in the first place is that the dispersion energy is always positive. A subtraction as in the above equation gives results that look plausible at first, but a comparison to the total interaction energies shows that the E_disp contribution is sometimes more negative than E_tot, something which seems implausible.

Is there some way to isolate the dispersion contribution in calculations using non-local vdW-DF approximations?

Any suggestion will be highly appreciated!
Thank you and best regards,
Michael

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