question about monopole correcton

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weiyidan
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question about monopole correcton

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Dear professor,
I am a student from China. Can I ask you a question?
I am doing a interface of semiconductor and insulator. Can the monopole be used to correct the interaction in interfaces, as i saw you used it to calculate silicon? Or must the dipole be used when the interface is calculated?

Thanks for your attention.
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Re: question about monopole correcton

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by thoroughly studying, i find fnv correction may be more useful
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Re: question about monopole correcton

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I guess that monopole correction would be the background screening that is applied if you have a charged system. You can't avoid this for periodic calculations in vasp. And yes, for slabs, the dipole correction is appropriate.
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Re: question about monopole correcton

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Dear professor,
I agree with you. However, i find the formation energy cannot converge to a ideal value, if the system are not cubic such as gallium oxide ,and charged with more than three electrons by 66% monopole correction (Lany‘s method). Is there anything wrong?
Yidan Wei
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