Can anyone please help me download VASP PAW_PBE pseudo potentials?

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Can anyone please help me download VASP PAW_PBE pseudo potentials?

#1 Post by joe_rasche » Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:25 pm

I think they would be under the user portal by my Linux system admin from IT, telling me he cannot find them.

Any help appreciated.

Jaime Gutierrez
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Please let me know how you all would like to proceed with the following.

The installation instructions for Vaspkit ( Step number 2) mentions to “unzip the VASP PAW_PBE pseudo potentials” to a specific directory.

https://vaspkit.com/installation.html

According the VASP documentation regarding Vasp psuedo potentials, those files are provided within the Vasp user portal for download. I did verify that I do not have download links for my Vasp account for any of the Vasp software or pseudo potentials.

https://www.vasp.at/wiki/index.php/Avai ... potentials


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Re: Can anyone please help me download VASP PAW_PBE pseudo potentials?

#2 Post by pedro_melo » Tue Jun 10, 2025 1:49 pm

Dear joe_rasche,

The pseudo potential files can be downloaded from the VASP portal, https://www.vasp.at/vasp-portal/. You or your IT admin needs to login and download the tar.gz file.

Vaspkit is an external package not developed nor maintained by our team.

Kind regards,
Pedro


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