[Pw_forum] Pw_forum Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

Shaptrishi Sharma sh.shapt at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 10:49:39 CEST 2009


Hi Paolo,

exmaple08?? What is that? I cannot understand what you are implying to me.
Can you please explain it in details?
I want to calculate the projected density of states.

Thanks
Shaptarishi

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>    1. V -  cohesive energy (Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez)
>    2. Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not        writable
>       (Sylvian Cadars)
>    3. Re: Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not
>       writable (Paolo Giannozzi)
>    4. Re: Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not
>       writable (Duy Le)
>    5. Re: V -  cohesive energy (Paolo Giannozzi)
>    6. Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum        espresso
>       (Shaptrishi Sharma)
>    7. Re: Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum
>       espresso (Paolo Giannozzi)
>    8. Xcrysden crashes! (Bertrand SITAMTZE)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:42:00 -0500
> From: Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez <rgonzalezh at unal.edu.co>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] V -  cohesive energy
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
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> Hi,
>
> I am calculating cohesive energy for V in bcc structure. The electronic
> configuration for the V isolated atom is  [Ar] 3d3 4s2.
>
> 1) I found for V isolated atom:
>
> !    total energy        = -27.27735288 Ry
>      total magnetization = 5.00 Bohr mag/cell
> and,
>      cohesive energy     = 5.28  (5.31 exp.)
>
> However, should I find a total magnetization = 3 in the isolated atom?
>
> 2) With the restriction (tot_magnetization=3) in my input file. I found:
>
> !    total energy        = -27.22435471 Ry
>      total magnetization = 3.00 Bohr mag/cell
> and,
>      cohesive energy     = 6.00  (5.31 exp.)
>
> why is this big difference in cohesive energy?
>
> Rafael J. Gonzalez
>
> ====================================================
> Rafael Julian Gonzalez    Tel:+57(1)3165000
> Department of Physics
> Universidad Nacional de Colombia
> email: rgonzalezh at unal.edu.co
> ====================================================
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:25:19 +0200
> From: Sylvian Cadars <sylvian.cadars at cnrs-orleans.fr>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or not
>         writable
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
> Message-ID: <4A9D3CDF.9050009 at cnrs-orleans.fr>
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> Hi,
> I recently started to get the same systematic error on all calculations
> that I am running, whereas the exact same calcuation was running
> successfully before, and I can't figure out what happened in the
> meantime.  The error is the following:
> The calculation crashes with error message (in a CRASH file) before
> anything can be written in the output file:
>
>
>   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>      task #        12
>      from outdir:  : error #         1
>      /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/ non existent or non writable
>
>   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment
> variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist and IS writable (I even got
> the same error when forcing it to be writable for u,g,o, and a).
> The same error occurs if I define the outdir directory in the input file
> as:
> outdir = '/work/scadars/espresso_tmp/'
> and again,  /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/ exists and is writable, since
> "ls -l /work/scadars/" gives:
>
> drwxrwxrwx 19 scadars dev 32768 sep  1 16:32 espresso_tmp
>
> On the other hand, the program runs successfully if I use the current
> directory as the temporary directory (by omitting definitions of outdir
> and ESPRESSO_TMPDIR) or if I use a temporary directory located in my
> home directory...
>
> Could you please help me figure out what is going wrong here?
> Thanks.
> Best regards.
>
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Dr. Sylvian CADARS*
> CEMHTI-CNRS
> 1D, Av. de la Recherche Scientifique
> 45071 Orl?ans Cedex 2, France
> email: sylvian.cadars at cnrs-orleans.fr
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:32:28 +0200
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or
>         not writable
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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> Sylvian Cadars wrote:
>
> > However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment
> > variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist
>
> you are running in parallel. If your "outdir" is on a local
> filesystem, you have to create one for each processor.
>
> P.
> --
> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:35:58 -0400
> From: Duy Le <ttduyle at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Temporary directory supposedly non existent or
>         not     writable
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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> Hi,
> It seems like pw.x was looking for /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/, so
> make sure that you create this directory "jobID"
> If you are running parrallel, you also need to make sure this directory is
> reachable by all nodes.
> Best,
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Sylvian Cadars <
> sylvian.cadars at cnrs-orleans.fr> wrote:
>
> >  Hi,
> > I recently started to get the same systematic error on all calculations
> > that I am running, whereas the exact same calcuation was running
> > successfully before, and I can't figure out what happened in the
> meantime.
> > The error is the following:
> > The calculation crashes with error message (in a CRASH file) before
> > anything can be written in the output file:
> >
> >
>
> >  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >      task #        12
> >      from outdir:  : error #         1
> >      /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/jobID/ non existent or non writable
> >
>
> >  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> > However the specified outdir directory, created with the environment
> > variable ESPRESSO_TMPDIR actually DOES exist and IS writable (I even got
> the
> > same error when forcing it to be writable for u,g,o, and a).
> > The same error occurs if I define the outdir directory in the input file
> > as:
> > outdir = '/work/scadars/espresso_tmp/'
> > and again,  /work/scadars/espresso_tmp/ exists and is writable, since "ls
> > -l /work/scadars/" gives:
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx 19 scadars dev 32768 sep  1 16:32 espresso_tmp
> >
> > On the other hand, the program runs successfully if I use the current
> > directory as the temporary directory (by omitting definitions of outdir
> and
> > ESPRESSO_TMPDIR) or if I use a temporary directory located in my home
> > directory...
> >
> > Could you please help me figure out what is going wrong here?
> > Thanks.
> > Best regards.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > ------------------------------
> > *Dr. Sylvian CADARS*
> > CEMHTI-CNRS
> > 1D, Av. de la Recherche Scientifique
> > 45071 Orl?ans Cedex 2, France
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:42:31 +0200
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] V -  cohesive energy
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> Rafael Julian Gonzalez Hernandez wrote:
>
> > 1) I found for V isolated atom:
> >
> > !    total energy        = -27.27735288 Ry
> >      total magnetization = 5.00 Bohr mag/cell
> > [...]
> > However, should I find a total magnetization = 3 in the isolated atom?
>
> calculations on isolated atoms with plane waves are tricky.
> Compare your results with what you get with the atomic code,
> in which you can fix occupancies at will
>
> Paolo
> --
> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 17:33:30 +0100
> From: Shaptrishi Sharma <sh.shapt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] Calculating Projected density of states in Quantum
>         espresso
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> Hi there,
>
> I have already performed scff calculation in quantum espresso, now I would
> like to calculate projected density of states for my system, I serached it
> in PWscf manual however it did nto help me at all. Can anybody please tell
> me what will be the input file format for calculating PDOS.
>
> Thanks
> Shaptarishi.
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> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:44 +0200
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <giannozz at democritos.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Calculating Projected density of states in
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> Shaptrishi Sharma wrote:
>
> > I would like to calculate projected density of states for my system
>
> example08
>
> --
> Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:52:43 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Bertrand SITAMTZE <siyouber at yahoo.fr>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] Xcrysden crashes!
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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>
> Dear all,
>
> I downloaded Xcrysden and installed it on one of our computer without any
> problem. But? I have not been able to do it with the other computer. The
> ./xcConfigure message does well, but running the executable xcryxden crashes
> with a message similar to this:/XCrySDen/xcrysden: line 163:  4240 Aborted
> (core dumped) ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/bin/xcrys
> ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/Tcl/xcInit.tcl $USE -- $XCRYSDEN_TOPD
> DIR $XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH $ARGS > /dev/null
>
> I found that somebody got the same problem in 2007. See the link:
>
> http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2007-December/000440.html
>
> I went through the forum and I didn't got any solution.
>
> Thanking for any help
>
>
> ************************
> Bertrand SITAMTZE
> PhD student
> Department of Physics
> University of Yaounde I-Cameroon
> *************************
>
>
>
>
> --- En date de?: Mar 1.9.09, Lorenzo Paulatto <paulatto at sissa.it> a
> ?crit?:
>
> De: Lorenzo Paulatto <paulatto at sissa.it>
> Objet: Re: [Pw_forum] Re : Re:Pseudopotential for Li
> ?: "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
> Date: Mardi 1 Septembre 2009, 12h16
>
> In data 01 settembre 2009 alle ore 12:11:33, Bertrand SITAMTZE?
> <siyouber at yahoo.fr> ha scritto:
> > Please, I would like you to help with the section concerning the 1 1S, 2?
> > 2S and 2 2P reference states. I mean, what should I put in the following?
> > section?
>
> That's exactly what I told you in the other email: you need two reference?
> wavefunction per value of l
> e.g. you could do something like this:
>
> 5
> 1S? 1? 0? 2.00???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000
> 2S? 2? 0? 0.80???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000
> 2S? 2? 0? 0.00???0.10???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000
> 2P? 2? 1? 0.20???0.00???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000
> 2P? 2? 1? 0.00???0.10???0.75000000000? ? ? 1.10000000000
>
> for the second reference (that one that does not have the eigenvalue?
> energy) occupation must be zero. The reference energy (in my example 0.10)?
> has to be chosen by testing and error; it will likely be in the range?
> -0.20 to 1.0
>
> best regards
>
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