Transferable relativistic Dirac-Slater pseudopotentials

We present a method for constructing a scalar-relativistic pseudopotential that provides exact agreement with relativistic Dirac-Slater all-electron e igenvalues at the reference configuration. All-electron wave functions are self-consistently computed in the valence region at the exact all-electron scalar relativistic eigenvalues. This method improves transferability of th e resulting pseudopotential and presents a better starting point for the de signed nonlocal pseudopotential approach [Phys. Rev. B 59, 12471 (1999)]. W e present calculations for the gold atom as an example of this approach.