VDW_POTENTIAL

References: Grimme2006, Tran2013

This section combines all possible additional dispersion corrections to the normal XC functionals. This can be more functionals or simple empirical pair potentials. [Edit on GitHub]

Subsections

• NON_LOCAL
• PAIR_POTENTIAL

Keywords

• POTENTIAL_TYPE

Keyword descriptions

POTENTIAL_TYPE: enum = NONE

Aliases: DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL

Usage: POTENTIAL_TYPE (NONE|PAIR_POTENTIAL|NON_LOCAL)

Valid values:

• NONE No dispersion/van der Waals functional

• PAIR_POTENTIAL Pair potential van der Waals density functional

• NON_LOCAL Nonlocal van der Waals density functional

Type of dispersion/vdW functional or potential to use [Edit on GitHub]