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List of Figures
2.1.
Indistinguishable particles in quantum mechanics.
3.1.
Supercell approximation.
3.2.
Pseudopotential approximation.
4.1.
Purifying transformation.
5.1.
Test of analytic kinetic energy matrix elements.
5.2.
Green's function method for non-local pseudopotential.
5.3.
Kleinman-Bylander method for non-local pseudopotential.
6.1.
Kohn's penalty functional.
6.2.
Schematic illustration of Kohn's variational principle.
6.3.
Failure of quadratic interpolation for Kohn's penalty functional.
6.4.
Convergence properties of Kohn's penalty functional.
6.5.
One possible choice of analytic penalty functional.
6.6.
Schematic illustration of the analytic penalty functional.
6.7.
Variation of the occupation number errors with
.
6.8.
Total energy, total functional and corrected energy versus
.
6.9.
Two further examples of analytic penalty functionals.
7.1.
Rate of convergence for different numbers of inner cycles.
7.2.
Performance of the conjugate gradients algorithm.
9.1.
Convergence of total energy with respect to support region radius.
9.2.
Convergence of total energy with respect to density-kernel cut-off.
9.3.
Electronic density in the (110) plane.
9.4.
Diamond structure of silicon, highlighting a {110} plane.
9.5.
CASTEP
electronic density.
9.6.
Electronic density difference.
9.7.
Energy-volume curve for silicon.
9.8.
Variation of computational effort with system-size.
B.1.
Steepest descents method.
B.2.
Conjugate gradients method.
Peter Haynes