In the last decades, material discovery has been a very active research field
driven by the necessity of new materials for different applications. This has
also included materials incorporating heavy elements, beyond the stable
isotopes of lead. Most of actinides exhibit unique properties that make them
useful in various applications. Further, new heavy elements, taking the name of
super-heavy elements, have been synthesized, filling previously empty space of
Mendeleev periodic table. Their chemical bonding behaviour, of academic
interest at present, would also benefit of state-of-the-art modelling
approaches. In particular, in order to perform first-principles calculations
with planewave basis sets, one needs corresponding pseudopotentials. In this
work, we present a series of fully-relativistic optimised norm-conserving
Vanderbilt pseudopotentials (ONCVPs) for thirty-four actinides and super-heavy
elements. The scalar relativistic version of these ONCVPs is tested by
comparing equations of states for crystals, obtained with \textsc{abinit} 9.6,
with those obtained by all-electron zeroth-order regular approximation (ZORA)
calculations performed with the Amsterdam Modelling Suite BAND code.
Δ-Gauge and Δ1-Gauge indicators are used to validate these
pseudopotentials. This work is a contribution to the PseudoDojo project, in
which pseudopotentials for the whole periodic table are developed and
systematically tested. The fully-relativistic pseudopotential files (i.e.
including spin-orbit coupling) are available on the PseudoDojo web-interface
pseudo-dojo.org under the name NC FR (ONCVPSP) v4.x. Pseudopotentials are made
available in psp8 and UPF2 formats, both convenient for \textsc{abinit}, the
latter being also suitable for Quantum ESPRESSO