[Pw_forum] Pw_forum Digest, Vol 81, Issue 29

Tommaso Francese neutrinofrancese at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 12:38:50 CEST 2014


Thank you all, your suggestion were very very useful!!! Thank you again!!!
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>   1. Re: binding energy of molecular oxygen (Junxiang Chen)
>   2. Re: binding energy of molecular oxygen (Lorenzo Paulatto)
>   3. Re: binding energy of molecular oxygen (Junxiang Chen)
>   4. Re: binding energy of molecular oxygen (Giuseppe Mattioli)
>   5. Re: Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for graphene (jiaxu yan)
>   6. convergence (Tommaso Francese)
>   7. Re: convergence (Ij?s Mari)
>   8. Re: convergence (Arles V. Gil Rebaza)
>   9. Re: convergence (Paolo Giannozzi)
>  10. Re: possibility of relax calculations with saw-tooth
>      potentials (tefield) (Rajdeep Banerjee)
>  11. Re: DFT+U convergence (Zarah Baiyee)
>  12. Re: Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for graphene
>      (Dmitry Korotin)
>  13. Re: Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for graphene (jiaxu yan)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:57:12 +0800
> From: "Junxiang Chen" <cjxxjc729 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] binding energy of molecular oxygen
> To: "'PWSCF Forum'" <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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> Well , H2O and O2, which will be more accurate, by using DFT-GGA? Or both are inaccurate?
> 
> Best wishes!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [mailto:pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org] On Behalf Of Giuseppe Mattioli
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 4:33 PM
> To: PWSCF Forum
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] binding energy of molecular oxygen
> 
> 
> Dear Junxiang Chen
> If you keep in mind that DFT-GGA is probably one of the less accurate ab-initio methods (also when you do your best), your result seems not to be "far from experiment value". I would rather write in a paper that such a result is "reasonably similar to the experimental
> value"...:-)
> HTH
> 
> Giuseppe
> 
> Giuseppe Mattioli
> ISM-CNR
> Italy
> 
> Quoting Junxiang Chen <cjxxjc729 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The same problem as
>> http://qe-forge.org/pipermail/pw_forum/2009-November/089525.html , the 
>> binding energy of detached O2 is 6.57eV, which is far from experiment 
>> value ( 5.12eV ), or 5.7eV in this page.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Input file ( O2 ):
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> &SYSTEM
>> 
>>                       ibrav = 12,
>> 
>>                   celldm(1) = 16.0348541363689,
>> 
>>                   celldm(2) = 1.52752767,
>> 
>>                   celldm(3) = 2.665651575,
>> 
>>                   celldm(4) = -0.3273333438252,
>> 
>>                         nat = 2,
>> 
>>                        ntyp = 1,
>> 
>>                     ecutwfc = 45,
>> 
>>                     ecutrho = 400,
>> 
>>                 occupations = 'smearing' ,
>> 
>>                     degauss = 0.01,
>> 
>>                    smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' ,
>> 
>>                       nspin = 2,
>> 
>>   starting_magnetization(1) = 1,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> &ELECTRONS
>> 
>>            electron_maxstep = 200,
>> 
>>                    conv_thr = 1.D-6,
>> 
>>                 mixing_beta = 0.4,
>> 
>>                 mixing_mode = 'local-TF' ,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> &IONS
>> 
>>                ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' ,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>> 
>>   O     15.9994      O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
>> 
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>> 
>> O        0.217969593   0.389882242   0.401960243
>> 
>> O        0.217971037   0.389881524   0.456565745
>> 
>> K_POINTS automatic
>> 
>>  5 5 2   0 0 0
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The binding energy is calculated by BE=EO2-2*EO* and BE=6.57eV
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Could anyone tells me what's wrong?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Junxiang Chen
>> 
>> Ph.D. candidate
>> 
>> Department of chemistry and molecular
>> 
>> Wuhan University
>> 
>> Wuhan, China
>> 
>> Email: cjxxjc729 at gmail.com <mailto:cjxxjc729 at gmail.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Junxiang Chen
>> 
>> Ph.D. candidate
>> 
>> Department of chemistry and molecular
>> 
>> Wuhan University
>> 
>> Wuhan, China
>> 
>> Email: cjxxjc729 at gmail.com
>> 
>> QQ: 95508097
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:34:07 +0200
> From: Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] binding energy of molecular oxygen
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
> Message-ID: <535E3CAF.1070800 at impmc.upmc.fr>
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> 
> On 04/28/2014 10:52 AM, Junxiang Chen wrote:
>> 
>> Input file (O) almost the same as O2
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> &SYSTEM
>> 
>> ibrav = 12,
>> 
>> celldm(1) = 16.0348541363689,
>> 
>> celldm(2) = 1.52752767,
>> 
>> celldm(3) = 2.665651575,
>> 
>> celldm(4) = -0.3273333438252,
>> 
>> nat = 1,
>> 
>> ntyp = 1,
>> 
>> ecutwfc = 45,
>> 
>> ecutrho = 400,
>> 
>> occupations = 'smearing' ,
>> 
>> degauss = 0.01,
>> 
>> smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' ,
>> 
>>       nspin = 2,
>> 
>> starting_magnetization(1) = 1,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> &ELECTRONS
>> 
>> electron_maxstep = 200,
>> 
>> conv_thr = 1.D-6,
>> 
>> mixing_beta = 0.4,
>> 
>> mixing_mode = 'local-TF' ,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> &IONS
>> 
>> ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' ,
>> 
>> /
>> 
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>> 
>> O     15.9994      O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
>> 
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>> 
>> O 0.217969593   0.389882242   0.401960243
>> 
>> K_POINTS automatic
>> 
>> 5 5 2   0 0 0
>> 
> 
> 
> Sorry, I only just noticed the K_POINT... why are you using anything 
> different from Gamma? This is supposed to be an isolated system, isn't it?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto
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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:30:17 +0800
> From: Junxiang Chen <cjxxjc729 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] binding energy of molecular oxygen
> To: PWSCF Forum <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
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> 
> yes it is an isolated system
> 
> this cell had been used to calculate other models kpoint has already been tested to reach the convergence
> 
> i just want a free energy of O2 right away so i copy the cell and modify the molecule and its location directly
> 
>> ? 2014?4?28??19:34?Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr> ???
>> 
>> 
>>> On 04/28/2014 10:52 AM, Junxiang Chen wrote:
>>> Input file (O) almost the same as O2
>>> 
>>> /
>>> &SYSTEM
>>>                       ibrav = 12,
>>>                   celldm(1) = 16.0348541363689,
>>>                   celldm(2) = 1.52752767,
>>>                   celldm(3) = 2.665651575,
>>>                   celldm(4) = -0.3273333438252,
>>>                         nat = 1,
>>>                        ntyp = 1,
>>>                     ecutwfc = 45,
>>>                     ecutrho = 400,
>>>                 occupations = 'smearing' ,
>>>                     degauss = 0.01,
>>>                    smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' ,
>>>                       nspin = 2,
>>>   starting_magnetization(1) = 1,
>>> /
>>> &ELECTRONS
>>>            electron_maxstep = 200,
>>>                    conv_thr = 1.D-6,
>>>                 mixing_beta = 0.4,
>>>                 mixing_mode = 'local-TF' ,
>>> /
>>> &IONS
>>>                ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' ,
>>> /
>>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>>>   O     15.9994      O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
>>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>>> O        0.217969593   0.389882242   0.401960243
>>> K_POINTS automatic
>>>  5 5 2   0 0 0
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I only just noticed the K_POINT... why are you using anything different from Gamma? This is supposed to be an isolated system, isn't it?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto
>> IdR @ IMPMC -- CNRS & Universit? Paris 6
>> +33 (0)1 44 275 084 / skype: paulatz
>> http://www-int.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/
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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:45:43 +0200
> From: Giuseppe Mattioli <giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] binding energy of molecular oxygen
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
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> 
> Only to stress the fact that you are not calculating any "free"  
> energy, but only the "internal" energy, given that there is no entropy  
> contribution in your calculations.
> HTH
> Giuseppe
> 
> Giuseppe Mattioli
> ISM-CNR
> Italy
> 
> Quoting Junxiang Chen <cjxxjc729 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> yes it is an isolated system
>> 
>> this cell had been used to calculate other models kpoint has already  
>> been tested to reach the convergence
>> 
>> i just want a free energy of O2 right away so i copy the cell and  
>> modify the molecule and its location directly
>> 
>>> ? 2014?4?28??19:34?Lorenzo Paulatto <lorenzo.paulatto at impmc.upmc.fr> ???
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 04/28/2014 10:52 AM, Junxiang Chen wrote:
>>>> Input file (O) almost the same as O2
>>>> 
>>>> /
>>>> &SYSTEM
>>>>                       ibrav = 12,
>>>>                   celldm(1) = 16.0348541363689,
>>>>                   celldm(2) = 1.52752767,
>>>>                   celldm(3) = 2.665651575,
>>>>                   celldm(4) = -0.3273333438252,
>>>>                         nat = 1,
>>>>                        ntyp = 1,
>>>>                     ecutwfc = 45,
>>>>                     ecutrho = 400,
>>>>                 occupations = 'smearing' ,
>>>>                     degauss = 0.01,
>>>>                    smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' ,
>>>>                       nspin = 2,
>>>>   starting_magnetization(1) = 1,
>>>> /
>>>> &ELECTRONS
>>>>            electron_maxstep = 200,
>>>>                    conv_thr = 1.D-6,
>>>>                 mixing_beta = 0.4,
>>>>                 mixing_mode = 'local-TF' ,
>>>> /
>>>> &IONS
>>>>                ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' ,
>>>> /
>>>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>>>>   O     15.9994      O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
>>>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>>>> O        0.217969593   0.389882242   0.401960243
>>>> K_POINTS automatic
>>>>  5 5 2   0 0 0
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry, I only just noticed the K_POINT... why are you using  
>>> anything different from Gamma? This is supposed to be an isolated  
>>> system, isn't it?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto
>>> IdR @ IMPMC -- CNRS & Universit? Paris 6
>>> +33 (0)1 44 275 084 / skype: paulatz
>>> http://www-int.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/
>>> 23-24/4?16 Bo?te courrier 115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris C?dex 05
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:20:59 +0800
> From: jiaxu yan <yanjiaxu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for
> 	graphene
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> Hi
> 
> I have followed Sclauzero Gabriele's suggestions and the error still occur:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> Error in routine wannier_proj (1):     wrong orthogonalization on
> k-point %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*
> 
> Anyone know about it? All related files are attached...
> 
> Wayne, Yan
> Division of Physics and Applied Physics
> School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:33:57 +0200
> From: Tommaso Francese <neutrinofrancese at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Pw_forum] convergence
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
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> Dear all, 
> i?m trying to make a scf calculation for having the DOS of tetragonal zirconia. But it doesn?t reach convergence. Can anyone help me define where i?m making mistakes? 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tommaso Francese
> C? Foscari University
> 
> 
> The code is:
> 
> 
> &CONTROL
>                 calculation = 'scf' ,
>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,
>                      outdir = '/home/***/QE/espresso-5.0.2/tmp/' ,
>                  pseudo_dir = '/home/***/upf_files/' ,
>                      prefix = 'tetragonal' ,
>                     disk_io = 'default' ,
> /
> &SYSTEM
>                       ibrav = 6,
>                   celldm(1) = 3.588,
>                   celldm(3) = 5.217,
>                         nat = 24,
>                        ntyp = 2,
>                     ecutwfc = 40 ,
>                     ecutrho = 160 ,
>                        nbnd = 80,
>                   input_dft = 'B3LYP' ,
>                 occupations = 'tetrahedra' ,
>                    smearing = 'marzari-vanderbilt' ,
>            exxdiv_treatment = 'gygi-baldereschi' ,
>                        nqx1 = 4 ,
>                        nqx2 = 4 ,
>                        nqx3 = 12 ,
> /
> &ELECTRONS
>                    conv_thr = 1.D-4 ,
>                 mixing_mode = 'plain' ,
>                 mixing_beta = 0.7 ,
>             diagonalization = 'david' ,
>              diago_full_acc = .true. ,
> /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>   Zr   91.22400  Zr.pz-mt_fhi.UPF 
>    O   15.99900  O.pz-mt_fhi.UPF 
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS alat 
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.250000000    
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.250000000    
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.750000000    
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.750000000    
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.250000000    
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.250000000    
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.750000000    
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.750000000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.060200000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.060200000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.560200000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.560200000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.439800000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.439800000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.939800000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.939800000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.439800000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.439800000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.939800000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.939800000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.060200000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.060200000    
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.560200000    
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.560200000    
> K_POINTS automatic 
>  4 4 12   1 1 1 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:47:29 +0000
> From: Ij?s Mari <mari.ijas at aalto.fi>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] convergence
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> Dear Tommasco,
> 
> one thing that I find a bit weird is your k-point sampling - your unit cell is much longer in the z-direction than in x and y but still, you use a denser k sampling in the reciprocal space?
> 
> I?d rather try, for instance 12x12x4 grid (unless you have a reason to expect a flat dispersion in x and y)
> 
> Mari
> 
> On 28 Apr 2014, at 17:33, Tommaso Francese <neutrinofrancese at gmail.com<mailto:neutrinofrancese at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> i?m trying to make a scf calculation for having the DOS of tetragonal zirconia. But it doesn?t reach convergence. Can anyone help me define where i?m making mistakes?
> Thanks in advance,
> Tommaso Francese
> C? Foscari University
> 
> 
> The code is:
> 
> 
> &CONTROL
>                 calculation = 'scf' ,
>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,
>                      outdir = '/home/***/QE/espresso-5.0.2/tmp/' ,
>                  pseudo_dir = '/home/***/upf_files/' ,
>                      prefix = 'tetragonal' ,
>                     disk_io = 'default' ,
> /
> &SYSTEM
>                       ibrav = 6,
>                   celldm(1) = 3.588,
>                   celldm(3) = 5.217,
>                         nat = 24,
>                        ntyp = 2,
>                     ecutwfc = 40 ,
>                     ecutrho = 160 ,
>                        nbnd = 80,
>                   input_dft = 'B3LYP' ,
>                 occupations = 'tetrahedra' ,
>                    smearing = 'marzari-vanderbilt' ,
>            exxdiv_treatment = 'gygi-baldereschi' ,
>                        nqx1 = 4 ,
>                        nqx2 = 4 ,
>                        nqx3 = 12 ,
> /
> &ELECTRONS
>                    conv_thr = 1.D-4 ,
>                 mixing_mode = 'plain' ,
>                 mixing_beta = 0.7 ,
>             diagonalization = 'david' ,
>              diago_full_acc = .true. ,
> /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>   Zr   91.22400  Zr.pz-mt_fhi.UPF
>    O   15.99900  O.pz-mt_fhi.UPF
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS alat
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.250000000
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.250000000
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.750000000
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.750000000
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.250000000
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.250000000
>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.750000000
>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.750000000
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.060200000
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.060200000
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.560200000
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.560200000
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.439800000
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.439800000
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.939800000
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.939800000
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.439800000
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.439800000
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.939800000
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.939800000
>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.060200000
>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.060200000
>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.560200000
>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.560200000
> K_POINTS automatic
>  4 4 12   1 1 1
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> From: "Arles V. Gil Rebaza" <arvifis at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] convergence
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> Tommaso, in your input file are some miskates,  celldm(3) = 5.217 ...???
> please read la manual of QE, celldm(3) means c/a, i.e.  3.588/5.217.
> Why a k-mesh of 4 4 12, maybe you sholud try 12 12 4, !!! or optimize the
> value of k-points., ecutwfc = 40 ..?? are you sure..!!??
> 
> Best
> 
> PhD. Arles V. Gil Rebaza
> Instituto de F?sica de La Plata
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> 
> 2014-04-28 13:33 GMT-03:00 Tommaso Francese <neutrinofrancese at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> i?m trying to make a scf calculation for having the DOS of tetragonal
>> zirconia. But it doesn?t reach convergence. Can anyone help me define where
>> i?m making mistakes?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tommaso Francese
>> C? Foscari University
>> 
>> 
>> The code is:
>> 
>> 
>> &CONTROL
>>                 calculation = 'scf' ,
>>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,
>>                      outdir = '/home/***/QE/espresso-5.0.2/tmp/' ,
>>                  pseudo_dir = '/home/***/upf_files/' ,
>>                      prefix = 'tetragonal' ,
>>                     disk_io = 'default' ,
>> /
>> &SYSTEM
>>                       ibrav = 6,
>>                   celldm(1) = 3.588,
>>                   celldm(3) = 5.217,
>>                         nat = 24,
>>                        ntyp = 2,
>>                     ecutwfc = 40 ,
>>                     ecutrho = 160 ,
>>                        nbnd = 80,
>>                   input_dft = 'B3LYP' ,
>>                 occupations = 'tetrahedra' ,
>>                    smearing = 'marzari-vanderbilt' ,
>>            exxdiv_treatment = 'gygi-baldereschi' ,
>>                        nqx1 = 4 ,
>>                        nqx2 = 4 ,
>>                        nqx3 = 12 ,
>> /
>> &ELECTRONS
>>                    conv_thr = 1.D-4 ,
>>                 mixing_mode = 'plain' ,
>>                 mixing_beta = 0.7 ,
>>             diagonalization = 'david' ,
>>              diago_full_acc = .true. ,
>> /
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>>   Zr   91.22400  Zr.pz-mt_fhi.UPF
>>    O   15.99900  O.pz-mt_fhi.UPF
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS alat
>>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.250000000
>>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.250000000
>>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.750000000
>>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.750000000
>>   Zr      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.250000000
>>   Zr      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.250000000
>>   Zr      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.750000000
>>   Zr      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.750000000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.060200000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.060200000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.560200000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.560200000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.439800000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.439800000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.939800000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.939800000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.439800000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.439800000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.939800000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.939800000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.750000000    0.060200000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.250000000    0.060200000
>>    O      0.250000000    0.250000000    0.560200000
>>    O      0.750000000    0.750000000    0.560200000
>> K_POINTS automatic
>>  4 4 12   1 1 1
>> 
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> From: Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] convergence
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> On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 18:33 +0200, Tommaso Francese wrote:
> 
>>                 occupations = 'tetrahedra' ,
> 
> tetrahedra are not in principle suitable for scf calculations ...
> 
>>                    smearing = 'marzari-vanderbilt' 
> 
> ... and this option is incompaticle with the previous one
> 
> P.
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> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 23:34:39 +0530
> From: Rajdeep Banerjee <rajdeep.jzs at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] possibility of relax calculations with
> 	saw-tooth	potentials (tefield)
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> Dear Sclauzero  Gabriele,
>                                     thank you very much for your
> suggestion. If I may I'd like to ask another question:
> If my structure is already optimized and I want to see the effect of
> electric field on the band gap then are the following steps correct?
> 1. start with the optimized structure and relax it under the electric field
> (using tefield)
> 2. use the relax structure to do scf, nscf and dos.
> 
>             Thanks in advance.
> Rajdeep Banerjee
> (Ph. D. student)
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> From: Zarah Baiyee <z.baiyee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] DFT+U convergence
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> Dear Giuseppe,
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Giuseppe Mattioli <
> giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Dear Zarah
>> It's a kind of semiempirical (not a kind of magic, anyway...:-)), but
>> when you deal with metal oxides you may try to correct with +U the O
>> 2p shell. Sometimes the DFT+U(metal,oxygen) approach helps to reach
>> convergence more smoothly than DFT+U(metal). You may want to look at
>> 
>> Himmetoglu, B.; Floris, A.; de Gironcoli, S.; Cococcioni, M. Int. J.
>> Quantum Chem. 2014, 114, 14-49.
>> Mattioli, G.; Alippi, P.; Filippone, F.; Caminiti, R.; Amore
>> Bonapasta, A. J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 21694-21704, 114.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Giuseppe
>> 
>> Giuseppe Mattioli
>> ISM-CNR
>> Italy
>> 
>> Quoting Zarah Baiyee <z.baiyee at gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> I am working on a perovskite system, BaFeO3, and trying to include a
>>> hubbard correction for the Fe cation, yet struggling with convergence. I
>>> have read on previous posts, that convergence can be difficult using the
>>> pbe x-change correlation, therefore I have tried both with my initial pbe
>>> PPs and LDA PPs yet still struggling.
>>> 
>>> Please find attached, the input files any advice would be much
>> appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Kind Regards
>>> 
>>> Zarah
>> 
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> From: Dmitry Korotin <dmitry at korotin.name>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for
> 	graphene
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> Helllo,
> it looks like you have chosen a wrong set of energy bands for projecting
> procedure.
> That is the output of projwfc.x for you graphene structure:
> ------
>     state #   1: atom   1 (C  ), wfc  1 (l=0 m= 1)
>     state #   2: atom   1 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 1)
>     state #   3: atom   1 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 2)
>     state #   4: atom   1 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 3)
>     state #   5: atom   2 (C  ), wfc  1 (l=0 m= 1)
>     state #   6: atom   2 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 1)
>     state #   7: atom   2 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 2)
>     state #   8: atom   2 (C  ), wfc  2 (l=1 m= 3)
> 
> k =   0.0000000000  0.0000000000  0.0000000000
> ==== e(   1) =   -20.53160 eV ====
>     psi = 0.490*[#   1]+0.490*[#   5]+
>    |psi|^2 = 0.981
> ==== e(   2) =    -8.84241 eV ====
>     psi = 0.474*[#   2]+0.474*[#   6]+
>    |psi|^2 = 0.948
> ==== e(   3) =    -4.04773 eV ====
>     psi = 0.249*[#   3]+0.249*[#   4]+0.249*[#   7]+0.249*[#   8]+
>    |psi|^2 = 0.997
> ==== e(   4) =    -4.04773 eV ====
>     psi = 0.249*[#   3]+0.249*[#   4]+0.249*[#   7]+0.249*[#   8]+
>    |psi|^2 = 0.997
> ==== e(   5) =     2.24270 eV ====
>     psi = 0.004*[#   1]+0.004*[#   5]+
>    |psi|^2 = 0.008
> ------
> According to wannier_ham.in file you are interested in states number 4 and
> 8 (p 3 states). And you suggest that these two states corresponds to bands
> number 4 and 5.
> As you can see from the listing above there are no any components of states
> 4 or 8 for band number 5 at Gamma-point. That is why the projection
> procedure fails at Gamma (an integer number in the string " Error in
> routine wannier_proj (1):" means the k-point number where a problem arises).
> 
> I would advice you:
> 1) to compute the band structure of the compound
> 2) To define the energy interval (in eV) for bands under consideration
> 3) to use use_energy_int = .true. option and to define the bands set for
> projection via the minimum and maximum energy values like:
> 
> Wannier# 1 -4.5 2.95
> atom 1
> p 3 1.0
> Wannier# 2 -4.5 2.95
> atom 2
> p 3 1.0
> 
> Hope it helps :)
> 
> 
> 2014-04-28 20:20 GMT+06:00 jiaxu yan <yanjiaxu at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I have followed Sclauzero Gabriele's suggestions and the error still
>> occur:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> Error in routine wannier_proj (1):     wrong orthogonalization on
>> k-point %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*
>> 
>> Anyone know about it? All related files are attached...
>> 
>> Wayne, Yan
>> Division of Physics and Applied Physics
>> School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
>> Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>> yanjiaxu at gmail.com <http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum>
>> 
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> From: jiaxu yan <yanjiaxu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Fwd: Error when using wannier_ham.x for
> 	graphene
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> Hi
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried all possible methods, but it always failed, even try fitting
> all bands (Pls see the attached files). Any help...[?]
> 
> 
> 
> Wayne, Yan
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