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AB-INITIO SIMULATIONS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE - VASP

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Overview I<br />

Levels of computer-simulations in materials science<br />

Born-Oppenheimer approximation<br />

Decoupling ions and electrons<br />

Hellmann-Feynman theorem<br />

Ab-initio electronic structure methods<br />

Hartree-Fock (HF) and post-HF approaches<br />

Density-functional theory (DFT)<br />

Local density approximation<br />

J. HAFNER, <strong>AB</strong>-<strong><strong>IN</strong>ITIO</strong> <strong>MATERIALS</strong> <strong>SIMULATIONS</strong> Page 2

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