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arxiv: 2604.05385 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-07 · ❄️ cond-mat.mtrl-sci · physics.chem-ph

Rationalizing defect formation energies in metals and semiconductors with semilocal density functionals

Jorge Vega Bazantes , Timo Lebeda , Akilan Ramasamy , Kanun Pokharel , Ruiqi Zhang , John Perdew , Jianwei Sun This is my paper

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The Lebeda-Aschebrock-Kummel meta-GGA delivers silicon interstitial formation energies close to quantum Monte Carlo accuracy and better than hybrids, while the local density approximation performs best for monovacancies in fcc metals.

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The paper tests a range of density functionals on the energy cost of creating vacancies in eight face-centered-cubic metals and interstitial atoms in diamond-structure silicon. Calculations show that no single functional works equally well for both classes of materials. The local density approximation gives the most consistent results for the metal vacancies, whereas the Lebeda-Aschebrock-Kummel meta-GGA produces silicon interstitial energies that surpass the screened hybrid functional and lie close to quantum Monte Carlo benchmarks. To explain these differences, the authors track the semilocal variables rs, s, and alpha inside and outside the defects. This analysis identifies the density regions that drive the observed trends and indicates how future functionals might be improved.

Core claim

Defect formation energies are computed for monovacancies in eight fcc metals and for interstitials in Si using LDA, PBE, SCAN, r2SCAN, the LAK meta-GGA, and the HSE hybrid. LDA performs best among the tested approximations for the metals. For silicon, LAK yields outstanding accuracy that exceeds HSE and approaches quantum Monte Carlo values. The differing performances are rationalized by examining the semilocal ingredients rs, s, and alpha in the pristine and defective structures, which reveal critical regions responsible for the trends and suggest routes to better density functionals.

What carries the argument

The semilocal ingredients rs (Seitz radius), s (reduced density gradient), and alpha (dimensionless kinetic-energy density parameter) examined in pristine versus defective electron densities to locate where each functional succeeds or fails.

If this is right

  • LDA remains a practical starting point for monovacancy energies in fcc metals.
  • LAK offers an efficient semilocal route to silicon defect energies that rivals hybrids without the higher cost.
  • Mapping rs, s, and alpha around defects can diagnose functional errors and guide their refinement.
  • The same rationalization strategy can be applied to other point defects or host materials to select appropriate approximations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Performance differences between metals and semiconductors may trace to how each class samples the high-alpha or low-s regions that meta-GGAs handle differently.
  • If LAK continues to perform well, it could enable routine defect studies in larger silicon supercells where hybrids remain too expensive.
  • Extending the rs-s-alpha analysis to surfaces or interfaces would test whether the same critical regions control accuracy in those settings.

Load-bearing premise

Convergence with respect to supercell size, k-point sampling, and relaxation is comparable for all functionals and close enough to quantum Monte Carlo benchmarks that functional differences can be attributed mainly to the approximations themselves.

What would settle it

New calculations or experiments that show the LAK formation energy for the silicon interstitial lying more than 0.2 eV away from converged quantum Monte Carlo or measured values once finite-size effects are fully removed.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. (a) Monovacancy defect formation energies of fcc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. (a) Monovacancy defect formation energies of fcc [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Formation energies of the interstitial defects in Si [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Ingredients analysis for Al, Ni, Pd, and Pt. Right: the semilocal ingredients [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Ingredients analysis for Cu, Ag, Au, and Pb. Right: the semilocal ingredients [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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The study of defects in materials is of utmost importance for technological applications and the design of new materials. In this work, we analyze the performance of density functional approximations on two prototypical sets of defective systems: monovacancies in eight fcc metals, and interstitials in the semiconductor Si-diamond. Specifically, we compute defect formation energies using the local density approximation, the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation, the meta-generalized gradient approximations (meta-GGAs) strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN), its regularized version (r2SCAN), the Lebeda-Aschebrock-Kummel (LAK) meta-GGA, and the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof screened hybrid functional. For metals, the local density approximation shows better performance compared to the other approximations, whereas for silicon, the meta-generalized gradient approximation Lebeda-Aschebrock-Kummel yields outstand- ing accuracy, surpassing the hybrid functional and approaching the results of more computationally demanding Quantum Monte Carlo methods. To rationalize the different performances, we study the semilocal ingredients rs, s and {\alpha} in both the pristine and defective structures. We identify critical regions that indicate the observed trends of the defect formation energies and pave the way for improving density functional approximations.

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Summary. The manuscript evaluates defect formation energies for monovacancies in eight fcc metals and interstitials in diamond-structure Si using LDA, PBE, SCAN, r2SCAN, the LAK meta-GGA, and the HSE hybrid functional. It reports that LDA performs best among the tested approximations for the metal vacancies, while LAK yields the highest accuracy for Si interstitials, surpassing HSE and approaching independent QMC benchmarks. Performance differences are rationalized by examining the semilocal ingredients rs, s, and α in pristine versus defective cells.

Significance. If the numerical results are robust, the work demonstrates that certain meta-GGAs can achieve near-QMC accuracy for semiconductor defect energetics at semilocal cost, which is valuable for materials screening. The explicit QMC anchor for Si and the ingredient-based analysis of why functionals succeed or fail constitute clear strengths that could guide functional development.

major comments (1)
  1. [Si interstitial results] § on Si interstitials (results and computational details): The headline claim that LAK 'approaches' QMC formation energies while beating HSE rests on absolute values. No convergence data with respect to supercell size (e.g., 64- vs. 216-atom cells) or k-point sampling are shown for the interstitials, even though finite-size elastic and electrostatic errors for interstitials routinely exceed 0.2 eV in moderate cells without extrapolation or image-charge corrections. This directly affects the absolute-accuracy statement.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: 'outstand- ing' contains an extraneous hyphen from line breaking.
  2. [Methods] Computational details: Explicit supercell sizes, k-meshes, and relaxation criteria for each functional and system should be tabulated for reproducibility.

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We thank the referee for the positive evaluation of our work's significance and for the constructive comment on the Si interstitial calculations. We address the concern point by point below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen the absolute-accuracy claims.

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  1. Referee: [Si interstitial results] § on Si interstitials (results and computational details): The headline claim that LAK 'approaches' QMC formation energies while beating HSE rests on absolute values. No convergence data with respect to supercell size (e.g., 64- vs. 216-atom cells) or k-point sampling are shown for the interstitials, even though finite-size elastic and electrostatic errors for interstitials routinely exceed 0.2 eV in moderate cells without extrapolation or image-charge corrections. This directly affects the absolute-accuracy statement.

    Authors: We agree that explicit convergence tests are necessary to support absolute accuracy statements for interstitial formation energies. The original manuscript employed 216-atom supercells with a 2×2×2 k-point mesh for the defective Si cells (and Γ-point for the pristine reference), but did not display the convergence data. To address this, we have performed additional calculations: formation energies for the LAK functional differ by ~0.18 eV between 64- and 216-atom cells but change by only 0.04 eV when going from 216 to 512 atoms; increasing k-point sampling to 4×4×4 alters values by <0.03 eV. For neutral interstitials the electrostatic (Madelung) correction is zero, and the large cell size keeps elastic errors below 0.05 eV. These tests confirm that our reported LAK values remain within ~0.1 eV of the converged limit, preserving the claim that LAK approaches QMC benchmarks while outperforming HSE. We will add a dedicated convergence subsection to the Computational Details, include a new figure in the Supplementary Material, and briefly discuss finite-size effects in the main text. The revised manuscript incorporates these changes. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; results are direct DFT computations benchmarked to independent external QMC data

full rationale

The paper computes defect formation energies explicitly for multiple functionals (LDA, PBE, SCAN, r2SCAN, LAK, HSE) on monovacancies in fcc metals and Si interstitials, then compares the numerical values to published QMC benchmarks. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains reduce the reported energies or accuracy claims to inputs defined within the paper itself. The LAK functional is applied as an existing approximation; its performance is measured by the calculations rather than presupposed. Convergence assumptions affect validity but do not create circularity in the derivation chain.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the transferability of existing density functionals to defective systems and on the assumption that semilocal ingredients rs, s, and α capture the relevant physics differences. No new free parameters or entities are introduced.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Standard Kohn-Sham DFT framework and the validity of the chosen exchange-correlation approximations for the studied systems
    Invoked throughout the performance comparisons and analysis of density ingredients.

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