Effect of the projector augmented wave potentials on the simulation of thermodynamic properties of vanadium

Tingting Zhang; Yuechao Wang; Jiawei Xian; Shuaichuang Wang; Jun Fang; Suqing Duan; Xingyu Gao; Haifeng Song; Haifeng Liu

doi:10.1063/5.0059360

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