[Pw_forum] nscf calculation

Mr. Sushant Kumar Behera sushant at tezu.ernet.in
Mon Jul 11 11:01:25 CEST 2016


Thank You Paolo Sir.

It is running fine with approximate good Fermi energy values.

regards
sushant

> The non-self-consistent calculation 'nscf' computes occupations of the
> Kohn-Sham states. In order to do so, it needs all occupied bands and
> likely some more. Specify a more appropriate value for nbnd
>
> Paolo
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Mr. Sushant Kumar Behera
> <sushant at tezu.ernet.in> wrote:
>> Dear Surender,
>> Thank you for your suggestion. Still I am getting the error message
>> keeping the ecutwfc/ecutrho same in both scf and nscf cases. Now it
>> shows
>> like below:
>>
>> *************************ERROR MESSAGE*********************************
>>  Computing kpt #:    65
>>      total cpu time spent up to now is       21.6 secs
>>
>>      ethr =  1.92E-08,  avg # of iterations = 44.5
>>      Message from routine efermit:
>>      internal error, cannot bracket Ef
>>
>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>      Error in routine tweights (1):
>>      bad Fermi energy
>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>>      stopping ...
>> ************************************************************************
>>
>> Still, I am trying to get rid of this taking suggestions.
>>
>> thanking all in advance.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> sushant
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>   Did you change the ecutwfc/ecutrho? If you did then you may get this
>>> error message, solution is to keep the value of ecutwfc/ecutrho same
>>> both in scf and nscf calculations.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Surender Kumar
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to calculate the nscf of MoS2 sheet. I have successfully
>>>> calculated for scf one. Now for nscf, I have tried with all PP (NC, US
>>>> and
>>>> PAW)with varying energy and k-points also for individual PPs.Still I
>>>> am
>>>> getting the output error like
>>>>
>>>> **************ERROR MESSAGE*******************************************
>>>> Largest allocated arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
>>>>         Kohn-Sham Wavefunctions         0.47 Mb     (    3112,   10)
>>>> NL
>>>> pseudopotentials             3.23 Mb     (    3112,   68) Each
>>>> V/rho on FFT grid          3.52 Mb     (  230400)
>>>>         Each G-vector array             0.63 Mb     (   82713)
>>>>         G-vector shells                 0.03 Mb     (    3889)
>>>>      Largest temporary arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
>>>>         Auxiliary wavefunctions         1.90 Mb     (    3112,   40)
>>>> Each
>>>> subspace H/S matrix        0.02 Mb     (      40,   40) Each
>>>> <psi_i|beta_j> matrix      0.01 Mb     (      68,   10)
>>>>
>>>>      Check: negative/imaginary core charge=   -0.000004    0.000000
>>>>
>>>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>>      Error in routine read_rho_xml (1):
>>>>      dimensions do not match
>>>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>>
>>>>      stopping ...
>>>> ************************************************************************
>>>>
>>>> I have attached the input file herewith. Kindly suggest me to get rid
>>>> of
>>>> this small error.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> With Warm Regards
>>>>
>>>> Sushant Kumar Behera
>>>> INSPIRE Fellow
>>>> Advanced Functional Material Laboratory
>>>> Deaprtment of Physics
>>>> Tezpur University
>>>> Tezpur, India 784028
>>>> email: sushant at tezu.ernet.in
>>>> Phone: +91-3712-275578 (Lab)
>>>> Cell:  +91-8473848729  (Mob)
>>>> http://www.tezu.ernet.in/dphy/afml/index.php
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> With Warm Regards
>>
>> Sushant Kumar Behera
>> INSPIRE Fellow
>> Advanced Functional Material Laboratory
>> Deaprtment of Physics
>> Tezpur University
>> Tezpur, India 784028
>> email: sushant at tezu.ernet.in
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With Warm Regards

Sushant Kumar Behera
INSPIRE Fellow
Advanced Functional Material Laboratory
Deaprtment of Physics
Tezpur University
Tezpur, India 784028
email: sushant at tezu.ernet.in
Phone: +91-3712-275578 (Lab)
Cell:  +91-8473848729  (Mob)
http://www.tezu.ernet.in/dphy/afml/index.php


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