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Structural formula: Zr2 Ni2

Functional: optB88-vDW

Space group : Cmcm

Calculation type: Bulk

JARVIS ID: JVASP-14779

Formation energy/atom (eV): -0.516

Relaxed energy/atom (eV): -4.0765

Primitive cell lattice parameters

a 3.317 Å , b 4.054 Å , c 5.245 Å

α 90.0 ° , β 108.433 ° , γ 90.0 °

Conventional cell lattice parameters

a 3.317 Å , b 9.952 Å , c 4.054 Å

α 90.0 ° , β 90.0 ° , γ 90.0 °

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Convergence

Calculations are done using VASP software. Convergence on KPOINTS and ENCUT is done with respect to total energy of the system within 0.001 eV tolerance. Please note convergence on KPOINTS and ENCUT is generally done for target properties, but here we assume energy-convergence with 0.001 eV should be sufficient for other properties also. The points on the curves are obtained with single-point calculation (nuber of ionic steps,NSW=1). However, for very accurate calculations, NSW>1 might be needed.

Structural analysis

The following shows the X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and the Radial distribution function (RDF) plots. XRD peaks should be comparable to experiments. Relative intensities may differ.

Electronic structure

The following shows the electronic density of states and bandstructure. DFT is generally predicted to underestimate bandgap of materials. Accurate band-gaps are obtained with higher level methods (with high computational requirement) such as HSE, GW, which are under progress. Total DOS, Orbital DOS and Element dos buttons are provided for density of states options. Energy is rescaled to make Fermi-energy zero. In the bandstructure plot, spin up is is shown with blue lines while spin down are shown with red lines. Non-degenerate spin-up and spin-down states (if applicable) would imply a net orbital magnetic moment in the system.

Bandgap (eV): 0.0024I

Optical properties Semi-local

Incident photon energy dependence of optical is shown below. Only interband optical transitions are taken into account.Please note the underestimatation of band-gap problem with DFT will reflect in the spectra as well. For very accurate optical properties GW/BSE calculation would be needed, which is yet to be done because of their very high computational cost. Optical properties for layered materials needs to be rescaled with the actual thickness to simulation z-box ratio. Absorption coeffiecient is in cm-1 unit.

Elastic tensor and derived phonon properties

Elastic tensor calculated for the conventional cell of the system with finite-difference method. For layered materials, the elastic constants are rescaled with respect to vacuum padding (see the input files) and the units for elastic coefficients are in N/m. Phonons obtained from this calcuation are also shown.

WARNING: Please note this may not be the exact phonon modes of the system as we did not test the cell-size dependence of phonons yet. At least 1.2 nm x1.2 nm x1.2 nm or more is needed for obtaining reliable phonon spectrum. For systems having primitive-cell phonon representation tables, I denotes infrared activity and R denotes Raman active modes (where applicabale). The minimum thermal conductivity was calculated using elastic tensor information following Clarke and Cahill formalism.

Bulk Modulus BV 141.833 GPa

Shear Modulus GV 43.32 GPa

180.3 107.3 123.0 0.0 -0.0 0.0
107.3 194.1 122.4 -0.0 0.0 0.0
123.0 122.4 196.7 0.0 -0.0 0.0
0.0 -0.0 0.0 8.7 -0.0 0.0
-0.0 0.0 -0.0 -0.0 74.4 0.0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.7
Phonon mode (cm-1)
-0.2532641643
-0.1880407034
-0.1744696541
39.7956820569
85.9736332223
96.2151589865
99.6262770675
114.608111701
138.40147208
144.437585907
157.146631279
160.945370724
164.863641518
168.940818666
169.892802616
170.944691769
181.306832268
182.887575294
185.46595413
190.409220744
193.799720205
194.993901041
212.689873423
220.323172153

Point group

point_group_type: mmm

Visualize Phonons here
Phonon mode (cm-1) Representation
-0.2532641643 B1u I
-0.1880407034 B3u I
-0.174469654 B2u I
114.608111701 B3g R
144.437585907 B2g R
157.146631279 B3g R
160.945370724 B1u I
169.892802616 Ag R
181.306832268 B3u I
190.409220744 B2u I
194.993901041 Ag R
212.689873423 B2g R

Magnetic moment

The orbital magnetic moment was obtained after SCF run. Please note no DFT+U parameters were taken into account.

0.000 μB

Reference


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