The energy zero
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in VASP all energies are referred to the the reference state for which
the potential was generated!
this is in most cases not the real groundstate of the atom
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to determined the energy of the grounstate of the atom place the atom
in a larger non cubic box to break initial symmetry (i.e.
11Ax10Ax9A)
use the G point only
INCAR:
ISPIN = 2 ! spin polarized
ISMEAR = 0 ; SIGMA = 0.2 ! for small sigma conv. for TM is diff.
MAGMOM = 2 ! initial magnetic moment
one should use the energy value energy without entropy of the OUTCAR file
since this coverges most rapidly to the correct energy for sigma 0
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