[Pw_forum] fixed spin moment calculation

yumin qian yuminqian at gmail.com
Fri Mar 13 03:04:27 CET 2009


thanks for your reply , It is very kind of you

2009/3/12 e kb <eminekb at yahoo.com>

>   Dear Yumin Qian,
> You may want to check with another pseudopotential for Oxygen. It might be
> totally unrelated but I've seen this attached in the details part:
>
> Warning: this O psp has been tested in liquid water simulations by
> Patrick Sit and Nicola Marzari. Results for the diffusion coefficient
> and pair correlation functions were at odd with those obtained with
> other ultrasoft or norm-conserving pseudopotentials, and recently
> published result.
>
> Emine Kucukbenli, grad student, SISSA, Italy.
>
> --- On *Thu, 3/12/09, yumin qian <yuminqian at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> From: yumin qian <yuminqian at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] fixed spin moment calculation
> To: "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 1:01 PM
>
>
>  Sorry for confuse you ,  After checking the input and output file , I
> found that I also did  a LiVO2 crystal calcualtion with the same problem,
> the input file I posted is for LiNiO2 and the output file I posted  is for
> LiVO2  , here is the complete input and output file from the
> same calcualtion
>
> &control
>     calculation='scf'
>     restart_mode='from_scratch' ,
>     pseudo_dir = '~/software/espresso-4test/pseudo',
>     outdir='outscf'
>     nstep=60
>     prefix='AFM-type'
>     tstress = .true.
>     tprnfor = .true.
>     wf_collect=.true.
>  /
>  &system
>     ibrav = 0, nat=16 , ntyp= 4,
>     ecutwfc = 35.0, ecutrho = 300.0,
>     occupations='tetrahedra',
>     nspin=2,constrained_magnetization='atomic',lambda=5.0,
> starting_magnetization(1)= 0.0,
> starting_magnetization(2)= 1.8,
> starting_magnetization(3)=-1.8,
> starting_magnetization(4)= 0.0,
> lda_plus_u=.true.
> Hubbard_U(1)=0.0
> Hubbard_U(2)=3.0
> Hubbard_U(3)=3.0
> Hubbard_U(4)=0.0
>
>  /
>  &electrons
>     diagonalization='david',
>     conv_thr = 1.0e-7,
>     mixing_beta = 0.5,
>  /
>
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
> Li    6.914      Li.pbe-n-mt_bw.UPF
> V1  50.9415   V.pbe-n-van.UPF
> V2  50.9415   V.pbe-n-van.UPF
> O   15.9994   O.pbe-van_bm.UPF
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {crystal}
> Li  0.0000000000000000  0.0000000000000000  0.0
> Li  0.0000000000000000  0.0000000000000000  0.5
> Li  0.5000000000000000  0.5000000000000000  0.0
> Li  0.5000000000000000  0.5000000000000000  0.5
> V1  0.0000000000000000  0.5000000000000000  0.25
> V2  0.0000000000000000  0.5000000000000000  0.75
> V2  0.5000000000000000  0.0000000000000000  0.25
> V1  0.5000000000000000  0.0000000000000000  0.75
> O   0.2354848230051515  0.0000000000000000  0.35287967
> O   0.2354848230051515  0.0000000000000000  0.85287967
> O   0.7354848230051516  0.5000000000000000  0.35287967
> O   0.7354848230051516  0.5000000000000000  0.85287967
> O   0.7645151769948484  0.0000000000000000  0.14712033
> O   0.7645151769948484  0.0000000000000000  0.64712033
> O   0.2645151769948484  0.5000000000000000  0.14712033
> O   0.2645151769948484  0.5000000000000000  0.64712033
> K_POINTS {automatic}
>   8 8 6  1 1 1
> CELL_PARAMETERS (alat)
>     9.903876    0.000000    0.000000
>     0.000000    5.622988    0.000000
>    -6.542514    0.000000   20.135790
>
> the output file gives
>
>
>  ==============================================================================
>      atom number    4 relative position :    0.1697   0.2839   1.0166
>      charge :     0.065485
>      magnetization :          0.000000
>      magnetization/charge:    0.000000
>      constrained moment :     0.000000
>
>
>  ==============================================================================
>
>
>  ==============================================================================
>      atom number    5 relative position :   -0.1652   0.2839   0.5083
>      charge :     2.371448
>      magnetization :          1.554551
>      magnetization/charge:    0.655528
>      constrained moment :     1.800000
>
>
> I also  changed lambda from 1 to 5 and the   final magnetic moment changed
> from 1.55 to 1.50
> so the parameter lambda seems  have no impact on the final magnetic moment,
> there should be something wrong with my calcualtion but I can't spot this
> error.
>
>
> 2009/3/12 Gabriele Sclauzero <sclauzer at sissa.it>
>
>> Dear Yumin Qian,
>>
>>    There's something strange in this output. I think that atom number 5
>> should be a Ni
>> one, since you were interested in the magnetization of that species, but
>> then, why is the
>> charge around that atom only about 2.5? Ni should have 10 electrons in
>> valence, so I would
>> expect to get a number around 10 for the charge (unless the atom goes in a
>> very ionized
>> state, but that seems highly unprobable to me).
>> Are you sure PPs and all the rest is OK?
>>
>>
>> GS
>>
>> yumin qian wrote:
>> > thanks for your reply ,I  changed the lambda=5.0 and used
>> >    occupations='tetrahedra'  but the magnetization still did not
>> > converge to the initial value ,but the total energy converged.
>> > I do know what is the problem.
>> >
>>  ==============================================================================
>> >      >      atom number    5 relative position :   -0.1652   0.2839
>> 0.5083
>> >      >      charge :     2.373353
>> >      >      magnetization :          1.544423
>> >      >      magnetization/charge:    0.650735
>> >      >      constrained moment :     1.800000
>> >      >
>> >      >
>> >
>>  ==============================================================================
>> >      > the output file gives a magnetic moment of 1.5444 ,how should I
>> do to
>> >      > make the calculation  converge to the starting_magnetization 1.8
>> ?
>> >
>>
>> --
>>
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Sincerely Y. M. Qian
Lab.of Condensed Matter Theory and Materials Computation
Institute of Physics
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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