Abstract
We assess the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) screened Coulomb hybrid density functional for the calculation of spin-orbit (SO) splittings and energy band gaps. We have employed a set of 23 semiconductors with available experimental data, including group IV elements, and group III-V, II-VI, and IB-VII compounds. The spin-orbit interaction is included in the calculations using relativistic effective core potentials within a second-variation approximation. HSE errrors are similar to those obtained previously without including SO in the calculation and using a weighted average of the SO split bands for the reference value [J. Chem. Phys. 123, 174101 (2005)]. Here we explicitly show that the same good agreement remains after explicitly including SO interaction in the calculations and comparing directly to experimental energy band gaps.
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Hybrid functionalPhysicsCoulombBand gapSpin (aerodynamics)Orbit (dynamics)Spin–orbit interactionElectronic band structureDensity functional theoryCondensed matter physicsAtomic physicsQuantum mechanics
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Juan E. Peralta,
Jochen Heyd,
Gustavo E. Scuseria
et al.
(2006).
Spin-orbit splittings and energy band gaps calculated with the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof screened hybrid functional.
Physical Review B
, 74
(7)
.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.74.073101
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- 10.1103/physrevb.74.073101