Modified recursion method for an efficient force computation in transition metals

Abstract
The full recursion method of V Heine and co-workers (1980) has been modified with a simple approximation for calculating the local density of states in the tight-binding model. The efficiency of this approximation has been tested on atoms in a dislocated molybdenum lattice. The computation time has been reduced by a factor of 200 without substantial sacrifice of the accuracy of the force.