VCA

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VCA = [real array]
Default: VCA = read from the POTCAR file 

Description: VCA is short for the virtual crystal approximation; the tag allows to "weight" each species found in the POTCAR file.


The tag VCA has to be supplied for each atom type or species found in the POTCAR respectively {{TAG|POSCAR} file. It weights the corresponding POTCAR files according to the values given in the INCAR file, with the default obviously being 1. For instance the formal valency found in the POTCAR files is multiplied by the supplied values, and likewise the augmentation charges, and the non-local pseudopotential strenght paramters are scaled by the supplies values.

It is possible to use this flag to perform calculations in the framework of the virtual crystal approximation. Say you want to simulate Sn doping in a Ge lattice. Using a POTCAR file with a Ge and Sn data set and the following POSCAR file, one can realize the virtual crystal approximation:

cd:

  1.00000000000000
    2.82173    2.82173    0.00000
    0.00000    2.82173    2.82173
    2.82173    0.00000    2.82173
  Ge   Sn
    2     2

Direct

 0.00  0.00  0.00
 0.25  0.25  0.25
 0.00  0.00  0.00
 0.25  0.25  0.25



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