NRLHamiltonianParametrization¶

class NRLHamiltonianParametrization(parameters)¶

Class representing the Hamiltonian parametrization for the Navy Research Laboratory Tight-Binding model.

Parameters:: parameters (NRLTightBindingParameters) – An object describing the parameters used for the in the NRL model.

basisSet()¶

Returns the Slater-Koster basis set used to construct the environmental independent component of the Hamiltonian and Overlap.

Returns:: The Slater-Koster basis set.
Return type:: SlaterKosterTable

pairPotentials()¶

Return the pair potentials. If no pair potentials are available, it returns None.

Returns:: The pair potentials.
Return type:: PairPotential

parameters()¶

Returns:: A dictionary with all the numerical parameters.
Return type:: dict

usingOrthogonalBasis()¶

Routine for determining if the Hamiltonian parametrization is using an orthogonal basis set.

Returns:: True if the basis is orthogonal, False otherwise.
Return type:: bool

Usage Examples¶

The following example demonstrates some of the different parameters available for a NRL Hamiltonian parametrization.

# Create a NRL Hamiltonian parametrization with the sp
# parameters for Silicon.
hamiltonian_parametrization = NRLHamiltonianParametrization(
    parameters=NRLParameters.Si_sp)

# NRL parametrization with the parameters for Carbon.
hamiltonian_parametrization = NRLHamiltonianParametrization(
    parameters=NRLParameters.C)

# Set up a semi-empirical calculator with the NRL parametrization.
calculator = SemiEmpiricalCalculator(
    hamiltonian_parametrization=hamiltonian_parametrization)

Notes¶

The Naval Research Laboratory tight-binding (NRL-TB) method uses distance- and environment-dependent Slater-Koster parameters to provide transferability between different atomic and molecular structures. The NRL parametrization is thoroughly described in [1]. The Slater-Koster model, which the NRL parametrization is based on, is described in Background information.

The available NRL parameter sets in QuantumATK can be found in the following table: NRL style parameters for electronic structure and total energy calculations.