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Revision as of 16:37, 1 December 2023

Pseudopotentials stored in POTCAR files are available for all elements in the periodic table from the VASP Portal. These are mostly Projector augmented wave (PAW) pseudopotentials. All distributed pseudopotentials have been generated by G. Kresse. The PAW potentials have been created following the recipes discussed in [1], whereas the PAW method has been first suggested and used by Peter Blöchl [2]. Therefore, if you use any of the supplied PAW potentials, you should include these two references.

Except for the 1st-row elements, all PAW potentials are designed to work reliably and accurately at an energy cutoff of roughly 250 eV. This is a key aspect of making the calculation computationally cheap. The default energy cutoff is set by the ENMAX tag in the POTCAR file.

Why VASP recommends PAW potentials

Generally, the PAW potentials are more accurate than ultra-soft pseudopotentials (US-PP). There are two reasons for this: First, the radial cutoffs (core radii) are smaller than the radii used for US-PP. Second, the PAW potentials reconstruct the exact valence wavefunction with all nodes in the core region. Since the core radii of the PAW potentials are smaller, the required energy cutoffs and basis sets are also larger. If such high precision is not required, the older US-PP can be used in principle, but it is discouraged. This is because the energy cutoffs have not changed appreciably for C, N, and O. Thus, the increase in the basis-set size will usually be small so that calculations for compounds that include any of these elements are not more expensive with PAW than with US-PP. We also list old US-PP potentials here, but those files are outdated, not supported and only distributed as is. Some VASP feature might yield undesired results with these files (e.g. metaGGA)

We list all pseudopotentials available from the VASP Portal that are mostly optimized for the treatment of occupied states, and unoccupied states close to the Fermi level. We advise to use the latest set of potentials, potpaw.64 unless there is a specific reason to use another set.

Mind: You can also download the LDA & PBE, 5.2 & 5.4 (original univie release version) potential set from the portal. Those potentials are equivalent to the potpaw.52 and potpaw.54 sets, other than some TITLE strings and missing hash keys. Thus they are not listed explicitly here. Use them only if you need them if you need absolutely identical files.

Available pseudopotential sets

We list all pseudopotentials available from the VASP Portal for each potential set. They are split between those that are intendet for treatment of mostly occupied states, and those that are also optimized for the treatment of unoccupied states far above the Fermi level. The latter ones are the pseudopotential with an _GW suffix. We advise to use the latest set of potentials, potpaw.64 unless there is a specific reason to use another set.

potpaw.64 (latest)

Updated potentials with respect to the potpaw.54 set:

  • Li_GW, He_GW: improved accuracy
  • C_GW_new, N_GW_new, O_GW_new, F_GW_new: more balanced overall
  • C_h, N_h O_h, F_h: improved accuracy for HF calculation (errors below 0.5 kcal)
  • N_s_GW: improved accuracy
  • Rn Rn_d_GW, Rn_sv_GW: mass updated to 220
  • Ba_sv_GW, Cs_sv, Cs_sv_GW, Cu_sv_GW, Hf_sv_GW: improved accuracy/ ghoststate issues
  • Dy, Er, Eu, Gd, Ho, Nd, Pm, Pr, Sm, Tb, Tm, Yb: lanthanides updated

Newly added potentials:

  • H_GW_new, B_GW_new, B_h_GW, C_s_GW
  • Dy_h, Er_h, Eu_h, Gd_h, Ho_h, Nd_h, Pm_h, Pr_h, Sm_h, Tb_h, Tm_h, Yb_h

For calculations involving mainly occupied states

List of PBE potentials
Potential name Number of valence electrons Valence electron configuration ENAMX [eV]
H 1 250.0
H.25 0.25 250.0
H.33 0.33 250.0
H.42 0.42 250.0
H.5 0.5 250.0
H.58 0.58 250.0
H.66 0.66 250.0
H.75 0.75 250.0
H1.25 1.25 250.0
H1.33 1.33 250.0
H1.5 1.5 250.0
H1.66 1.66 250.0
H1.75 1.75 250.0
H_AE 1 1000.0
H_h 1 700.0
H_s 1 200.0
He 2 478.896
He_AE 2 2135.871
Li 1 140.0
Li_sv 3 499.034
Be 2 247.543
Be_sv 4 308.768
B 3 318.614
B_h 3 700.0
B_s 3 269.245
C 4 400.0
C_h 4 741.689
C_s 4 273.911
N 5 400.0
N_h 5 755.582
N_s 5 279.692
O 6 400.0
O_h 6 765.519
O_s 6 282.853
F 7 400.0
F_h 7 772.626
F_s 7 289.837
Ne 8 343.606
Na 1 101.968
Na_pv 7 259.561
Na_sv 9 645.64
Mg 2 200.0
Mg_pv 8 403.929
Mg_sv 10 495.223
Al 3 240.3
Si 4 245.345
P 5 255.04
P_h 5 390.202
S 6 258.689
S_h 6 402.436
Cl 7 262.472
Cl_h 7 409.136
Ar 8 266.408
K_pv 7 116.731
K_sv 9 259.264
Ca_pv 8 119.559
Ca_sv 10 266.622
Sc 3 154.763
Sc_sv 11 222.66
Ti 4 178.33
Ti_pv 10 222.335
Ti_sv 12 274.61
V 5 192.543
V_pv 11 263.673
V_sv 13 263.673
Cr 6 227.08
Cr_pv 12 265.681
Cr_sv 14 395.471
Mn 7 269.864
Mn_pv 13 269.864
Mn_sv 15 387.187
Fe 8 267.882
Fe_pv 14 293.238
Fe_sv 16 390.558
Co 9 267.968
Co_pv 15 271.042
Co_sv 17 390.362
Ni 10 269.532
Ni_pv 16 367.986
Cu 11 295.446
Cu_pv 17 368.648
Zn 12 276.723
Ga 3 134.678
Ga_d 13 282.691
Ga_h 13 404.601
Ge 4 173.807
Ge_d 14 310.294
Ge_h 14 410.425
As 5 208.702
As_d 15 288.651
Se 6 211.555
Br 7 216.285
Kr 8 185.331
Rb_pv 7 121.882
Rb_sv 9 220.112
Sr_sv 10 229.353
Y_sv 11 202.626
Zr_sv 12 229.898
Nb_pv 11 208.608
Nb_sv 13 293.235
Mo 6 224.584
Mo_pv 12 224.584
Mo_sv 14 242.676
Tc 7 228.694
Tc_pv 13 263.523
Tc_sv 15 318.703
Ru 8 213.271
Ru_pv 14 240.049
Ru_sv 16 318.855
Rh 9 228.996
Rh_pv 15 247.408
Pd 10 250.925
Pd_pv 16 250.925
Ag 11 249.844
Ag_pv 17 297.865
Cd 12 274.336
In 3 95.934
In_d 13 239.211
Sn 4 103.236
Sn_d 14 241.083
Sb 5 172.069
Te 6 174.982
I 7 175.647
Xe 8 153.118
Cs_sv 9 220.318
Ba_sv 10 187.181
La 11 219.292
La_s 9 136.53
Ce 12 273.042
Ce_3 11 176.506
Ce_h 12 299.9
Pr 13 337.25
Pr_3 11 181.719
Pr_h 13 400.742
Nd 14 338.34
Nd_3 11 182.619
Nd_h 14 402.016
Pm 15 340.358
Pm_3 11 176.959
Pm_h 15 404.406
Sm 16 341.177
Sm_3 11 177.087
Sm_h 16 405.382
Eu 17 344.705
Eu_2 8 99.328
Eu_3 9 129.057
Eu_h 17 403.212
Gd 18 342.859
Gd_3 9 154.332
Gd_h 18 407.403
Tb 19 340.855
Tb_3 9 155.613
Tb_h 19 405.043
Dy 20 341.547
Dy_3 9 155.713
Dy_h 20 405.886
Ho 21 343.845
Ho_3 9 154.137
Ho_h 21 415.91
Er 22 346.295
Er_2 8 119.75
Er_3 9 155.037
Er_h 22 429.583
Tm 23 344.206
Tm_3 9 149.221
Tm_h 23 419.812
Yb 24 344.312
Yb_2 8 112.578
Yb_3 9 188.359
Yb_h 24 409.285
Lu 25 255.695
Lu_3 9 154.992
Hf 4 220.334
Hf_pv 10 220.334
Hf_sv 12 237.444
Ta 5 223.667
Ta_pv 11 223.667
W 6 223.057
W_sv 14 223.057
Re 7 226.216
Re_pv 13 226.216
Os 8 228.022
Os_pv 14 228.022
Ir 9 210.864
Pt 10 230.283
Pt_pv 16 294.607
Au 11 229.943
Hg 12 233.204
Tl 3 90.14
Tl_d 13 237.053
Pb 4 97.973
Pb_d 14 237.835
Bi 5 105.037
Bi_d 15 242.839
Po 6 159.707
Po_d 16 264.565
At 7 161.43
Rn 8 151.497
Fr_sv 9 214.54
Ra_sv 10 237.367
Ac 11 172.351
Th 12 247.306
Th_s 10 169.363
Pa 13 252.193
Pa_s 11 193.466
U 14 252.502
U_s 14 209.23
Np 15 254.26
Np_s 15 207.713
Pu 16 254.353
Pu_s 16 207.83
Am 17 255.875
Cm 18 257.953
Cf 20 414.614
List of LDA potentials
Potential name Number of valence electrons Valence electron configuration ENAMX [eV]
H 1 250.0
H.25 0.25 250.0
H.33 0.33 250.0
H.42 0.42 250.0
H.5 0.5 250.0
H.58 0.58 250.0
H.66 0.66 250.0
H.75 0.75 250.0
H1.25 1.25 250.0
H1.33 1.33 250.0
H1.5 1.5 250.0
H1.66 1.66 250.0
H1.75 1.75 250.0
H_AE 1 1000.0
H_h 1 700.0
H_s 1 200.0
He 2 477.779
Li 1 140.0
Li_sv 3 498.387
Be 2 247.951
Be_sv 4 308.45
B 3 318.762
B_h 3 700.0
B_s 3 269.251
C 4 400.0
C_h 4 742.464
C_s 4 273.704
N 5 400.0
N_h 5 755.833
N_s 5 279.424
O 6 400.0
O_h 6 765.442
O_s 6 282.604
F 7 400.0
F_h 7 772.351
F_s 7 289.647
Ne 8 343.403
Na 1 101.956
Na_pv 7 259.494
Na_sv 9 644.874
Mg 2 200.0
Mg_pv 8 403.538
Mg_sv 10 473.54
Al 3 240.957
Si 4 245.704
P 5 255.155
P_h 5 390.903
S 6 258.602
S_h 6 402.84
Cl 7 262.25
Cl_h 7 409.272
Ar 8 266.101
K_pv 7 116.596
K_sv 9 259.279
Ca_pv 8 119.552
Ca_sv 10 266.727
Sc 3 155.006
Sc_sv 11 222.7
Ti 4 178.52
Ti_pv 10 222.435
Ti_sv 12 274.719
V 5 192.706
V_pv 11 263.722
V_sv 13 263.722
Cr 6 227.202
Cr_pv 12 265.753
Cr_sv 14 395.443
Mn 7 269.944
Mn_pv 13 269.944
Mn_sv 15 387.112
Fe 8 267.969
Fe_pv 14 293.303
Fe_sv 16 390.513
Co 9 268.056
Co_pv 15 270.871
Co_sv 17 390.343
Ni 10 269.618
Ni_pv 16 367.726
Cu 11 295.521
Cu_pv 17 368.406
Zn 12 276.847
Ga 3 134.8
Ga_d 13 282.829
Ga_h 13 404.723
Ge 4 173.969
Ge_d 14 310.448
Ge_h 14 410.604
As 5 208.87
As_d 15 288.762
Se 6 211.602
Br 7 216.224
Kr 8 185.392
Rb_pv 7 122.21
Rb_sv 9 220.215
Sr_sv 10 226.327
Y_sv 11 202.554
Zr_sv 12 230.037
Nb_pv 11 207.263
Nb_sv 13 293.304
Mo 6 224.535
Mo_pv 12 224.535
Mo_sv 14 236.514
Tc 7 228.636
Tc_pv 13 263.345
Tc_sv 15 318.479
Ru 8 213.221
Ru_pv 14 239.907
Ru_sv 16 318.687
Rh 9 228.926
Rh_pv 15 247.321
Pd 10 250.832
Pd_pv 16 250.832
Ag 11 249.752
Ag_pv 17 297.68
Cd 12 274.265
In 3 96.062
In_d 13 239.196
Sn 4 103.318
Sn_d 14 241.107
Sb 5 172.301
Te 6 175.144
I 7 175.712
Xe 8 153.021
Cs_sv 9 220.727
Ba_sv 10 186.981
La 11 219.044
La_s 9 136.594
Ce 12 273.088
Ce_h 12 299.927
Hf 4 220.431
Hf_pv 10 220.431
Hf_sv 12 237.414
Ta 5 223.759
Ta_pv 11 223.759
W 6 223.126
W_sv 14 223.126
Re 7 226.25
Re_pv 13 226.25
Os 8 228.023
Os_pv 14 228.023
Ir 9 210.837
Pt 10 230.228
Pt_pv 16 294.53
Au 11 229.869
Hg 12 233.142
Tl 3 90.239
Tl_d 13 237.001
Pb 4 98.039
Pb_d 14 237.817
Bi 5 105.071
Bi_d 15 242.856
Po 6 159.801
Po_d 16 264.606
At 7 161.481
Rn 8 151.461
Fr_sv 9 214.489
Ra_sv 10 237.216
Ac 11 170.048
Th 12 247.389
Th_s 10 169.575
Pa 13 252.31
Pa_s 11 193.642
U 14 252.603
U_s 14 209.218
Np 15 254.349
Np_s 15 213.932
Pu 16 254.436
Pu_s 16 211.493
Am 17 255.953
Cm 18 258.027

For calculations involving unoccupied states

List of PBE potentials
Potential name Number of valence electrons Valence electron configuration ENAMX [eV]
H_GW 1 300.0
H_GW_new 1 536.615
H_h_GW 1 700.0
He_GW 2 405.78
Li_AE_GW 3 433.699
Li_GW 1 112.104
Li_sv_GW 3 433.699
Be_GW 2 247.543
Be_sv_GW 4 537.454
B_GW 3 318.614
B_GW_new 3 318.614
B_h_GW 3 731.373
C_GW 4 413.992
C_GW_new 4 433.983
C_h_GW 4 741.689
C_s_GW 4 304.843
N_GW 5 420.902
N_GW_new 5 452.633
N_h_GW 5 755.582
N_s_GW 5 312.986
O_GW 6 414.635
O_GW_new 6 466.797
O_h_GW 6 765.519
O_s_GW 6 334.664
F_GW 7 487.698
F_GW_new 7 480.281
F_h_GW 7 848.626
Ne_GW 8 432.275
Ne_s_GW 8 318.26
Na_sv_GW 9 372.853
Mg_GW 2 126.143
Mg_pv_GW 8 403.929
Mg_sv_GW 10 429.893
Al_GW 3 240.3
Al_sv_GW 11 411.109
Si_GW 4 245.345
Si_sv_GW 12 547.578
P_GW 5 255.04
S_GW 6 258.689
Cl_GW 7 262.472
Ar_GW 8 290.599
K_sv_GW 9 248.998
Ca_sv_GW 10 281.43
Sc_sv_GW 11 378.961
Ti_sv_GW 12 383.774
V_sv_GW 13 382.321
Cr_sv_GW 14 384.932
Mn_GW 7 278.466
Mn_sv_GW 15 384.627
Fe_GW 8 321.007
Fe_sv_GW 16 387.837
Co_GW 9 323.4
Co_sv_GW 17 387.491
Ni_GW 10 357.323
Ni_sv_GW 18 389.645
Cu_GW 11 417.039
Cu_sv_GW 19 467.331
Zn_GW 12 328.191
Zn_sv_GW 20 401.665
Ga_GW 3 134.678
Ga_d_GW 13 404.602
Ga_sv_GW 21 404.602
Ge_GW 4 173.807
Ge_d_GW 14 375.434
Ge_sv_GW 22 410.425
As_GW 5 208.702
As_sv_GW 23 415.313
Se_GW 6 211.555
Se_sv_GW 24 469.344
Br_GW 7 216.285
Br_sv_GW 25 475.692
Kr_GW 8 252.232
Rb_sv_GW 9 221.197
Sr_sv_GW 10 224.817
Y_sv_GW 11 339.758
Zr_sv_GW 12 346.364
Nb_sv_GW 13 353.872
Mo_sv_GW 14 344.914
Tc_sv_GW 15 351.044
Ru_sv_GW 16 348.106
Rh_GW 9 247.408
Rh_sv_GW 17 351.206
Pd_GW 10 250.925
Pd_sv_GW 18 356.093
Ag_GW 11 249.844
Ag_sv_GW 19 354.43
Cd_GW 12 254.045
Cd_sv_GW 20 361.806
In_d_GW 13 278.624
In_sv_GW 21 366.771
Sn_d_GW 14 260.066
Sn_sv_GW 22 368.778
Sb_GW 5 172.069
Sb_d_GW 15 263.1
Sb_sv_GW 23 372.491
Te_GW 6 174.982
Te_sv_GW 24 376.618
I_GW 7 175.647
I_sv_GW 25 381.674
Xe_GW 8 179.547
Xe_sv_GW 26 400.476
Cs_sv_GW 9 198.101
Ba_sv_GW 10 267.02
La_GW 11 313.688
Ce_GW 12 304.625
Hf_sv_GW 12 309.037
Ta_sv_GW 13 286.008
W_sv_GW 14 317.132
Re_sv_GW 15 317.012
Os_sv_GW 16 319.773
Ir_sv_GW 17 319.843
Pt_GW 10 248.716
Pt_sv_GW 18 323.669
Au_GW 11 248.344
Au_sv_GW 19 306.658
Hg_sv_GW 20 312.028
Tl_d_GW 15 237.053
Tl_sv_GW 21 316.583
Pb_d_GW 16 237.809
Pb_sv_GW 22 317.193
Bi_GW 5 146.53
Bi_d_GW 17 261.876
Bi_sv_GW 23 323.513
Po_d_GW 18 267.847
Po_sv_GW 24 326.618
At_d_GW 17 266.251
At_sv_GW 25 328.529
Rn_d_GW 18 267.347
Rn_sv_GW 26 329.758
List of LDA potentials
Potential name Number of valence electrons Valence electron configuration ENAMX [eV]
H_GW 1 300.0
H_h_GW 1 700.0
He_GW 2 404.806
Li_AE_GW 3 433.253
Li_GW 1 112.417
Li_sv_GW 3 433.253
Be_GW 2 247.951
Be_sv_GW 4 536.216
B_GW 3 318.762
B_GW_new 3 318.762
C_GW 4 413.992
C_GW_new 4 433.894
C_h_GW 4 742.464
C_s_GW 4 304.668
N_GW 5 420.681
N_GW_new 5 452.165
N_h_GW 5 755.833
N_s_GW 5 312.431
O_GW 6 414.315
O_GW_new 6 466.114
O_h_GW 6 765.442
O_s_GW 6 334.366
F_GW 7 487.335
F_GW_new 7 479.919
F_h_GW 7 847.822
Ne_GW 8 431.952
Ne_s_GW 8 317.594
Na_sv_GW 9 372.86
Mg_GW 2 126.671
Mg_pv_GW 8 403.538
Mg_sv_GW 10 430.099
Al_GW 3 240.957
Al_sv_GW 11 411.007
Si_GW 4 245.704
Si_sv_GW 12 546.548
P_GW 5 255.155
S_GW 6 258.602
Cl_GW 7 262.25
Ar_GW 8 290.518
K_sv_GW 9 248.606
Ca_sv_GW 10 281.209
Sc_sv_GW 11 378.598
Ti_sv_GW 12 383.48
V_sv_GW 13 382.093
Cr_sv_GW 14 384.753
Mn_GW 7 278.537
Mn_sv_GW 15 384.488
Fe_GW 8 321.044
Fe_sv_GW 16 387.727
Co_GW 9 323.447
Co_sv_GW 17 387.407
Ni_GW 10 357.352
Ni_sv_GW 18 389.485
Cu_GW 11 417.032
Cu_sv_GW 19 466.991
Zn_GW 12 328.312
Zn_sv_GW 20 401.745
Ga_GW 3 134.8
Ga_d_GW 13 404.723
Ga_sv_GW 21 404.723
Ge_GW 4 173.969
Ge_d_GW 14 375.614
Ge_sv_GW 22 410.604
As_GW 5 208.87
As_sv_GW 23 415.514
Se_GW 6 211.602
Se_sv_GW 24 469.258
Br_GW 7 216.224
Br_sv_GW 25 475.88
Kr_GW 8 252.563
Rb_sv_GW 9 220.92
Sr_sv_GW 10 224.532
Y_sv_GW 11 339.94
Zr_sv_GW 12 346.437
Nb_sv_GW 13 353.857
Mo_sv_GW 14 344.65
Tc_sv_GW 15 350.798
Ru_sv_GW 16 347.881
Rh_GW 9 247.321
Rh_sv_GW 17 350.989
Pd_GW 10 250.832
Pd_sv_GW 18 355.88
Ag_GW 11 249.752
Ag_sv_GW 19 354.226
Cd_GW 12 253.99
Cd_sv_GW 20 361.653
In_d_GW 13 278.582
In_sv_GW 21 366.636
Sn_d_GW 14 260.086
Sn_sv_GW 22 368.704
Sb_GW 5 172.301
Sb_d_GW 15 263.147
Sb_sv_GW 23 372.498
Te_GW 6 175.144
Te_sv_GW 24 376.686
I_GW 7 175.712
I_sv_GW 25 381.757
Xe_GW 8 179.528
Xe_sv_GW 26 400.581
Cs_sv_GW 9 198.012
Ba_sv_GW 10 237.484
La_GW 11 313.728
Ce_GW 12 304.649
Hf_sv_GW 12 308.829
Ta_sv_GW 13 285.798
W_sv_GW 14 316.943
Re_sv_GW 15 316.85
Os_sv_GW 16 319.628
Ir_sv_GW 17 319.708
Pt_GW 10 248.657
Pt_sv_GW 18 323.536
Au_GW 11 248.263
Au_sv_GW 19 306.52
Hg_sv_GW 20 311.949
Tl_d_GW 15 237.001
Tl_sv_GW 21 316.502
Pb_d_GW 16 237.793
Pb_sv_GW 22 317.138
Bi_GW 5 146.628
Bi_d_GW 17 261.89
Bi_sv_GW 23 323.502
Po_d_GW 18 267.666
Po_sv_GW 24 326.653
At_d_GW 17 266.303
At_sv_GW 25 328.597
Rn_d_GW 18 267.397
Rn_sv_GW 26 329.841

potpaw.54

LDA and PBE PAW datasets version 54, including the GW variety (original release 2015-09-04). When read by VASP these files yield identical results as the files distributed before. The POTCAR files, however, differ from previous versions:

  1. the TITLE string is set to the directory in which the POTCAR file reside for: O_GW_new, Ge_GW, G_GW_new, Cd_GW, Br_GW, B_GW.
  2. HASH key added to all POTCAR files.

For calculations involving mainly occupied states

List of PBE potentials
List of LDA potentials

For calculations involving unoccupied states

List of PBE potentials.
List of LDA potentials.

potpaw.52

PBE and LDA PAW datasets version 52, including early GW variety (snapshot 19-04-2012). When read by VASP these files yield identical results as the files distributed in 2012. The POTCAR files, however, differ from previous versions:

  1. the TITLE string is set to the directory in which the POTCAR file reside for: B_GW Br_GW Cd_GW Cd_pv_GW Cd_sv_GW F_GW_new Ge_GW H_AE Ne_GW_soft O_GW_new Pb_d_GW.
  2. For PBE GW the TITLE string has been updated from PAW to PAW_PBE.
  3. HASH key added to all POTCAR files.

For calculations involving mainly occupied states

List of PBE potentials
List of LDA potentials

For calculations involving unoccupied states

List of PBE potentials.
List of LDA potentials.

LDA (2010), PW91 (2006) and PBE (2010) PAW potentials

The LDA, PW91 and PBE PAW datasets (snapshot: 05-05-2010, 19-09-2006 and 06-05-2010, respectively). These files are outdated, not supported and only distributed as is. Some VASP feature might yield undesired results with these files (e.g. METAGGA).

For calculations involving mainly occupied states

List of PBE potentials
List of PW91 potentials
List of LDA potentials

For calculations involving unoccupied states

List of PBE potentials.
List of LDA potentials.

Ultrasoft pseudopotentials for LDA and PW91 (2002)

Ultrasoft pseudo potentials for LDA and PW91 (dated 2002-08-20 and 2002-04-08, respectively). These files are outdated, not supported and only distributed as is. Some VASP feature might yield undesired results with these files (e.g. METAGGA).

List of PW91 potentials.
List of LDA potentials

Related tags and sections

Category:Pseudopotentials, POTCAR, Theory:Pseudopotential_basics, Projector-augmented-wave_formalism, Construction:Choosing_pseudopotentials

References