<div dir="ltr">Dear Dario,<br><br>For calculation of dielectric properties you need to do integrations over the BZ. For high symmetry lattices, a shifted k-point mesh (specially a k-pt mesh without Gamma pt.) without the high symmetry points should be used. In that way you have a better sampling of your BZ and hence a improvement in the results. I also found similar improvements of convergence when I tested for convergence of adsorption energy wrt k-point mesh.<br>
<br>Prasenjit.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/10 dario rocca <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roccad@gmail.com">roccad@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br>Dear Users<br>I have an issue related to the convergence of the static dielectric matrix using the PH code. I have performed calculations<br>on bulk silicon using different k point meshes and I have obtained the following results:<br>
<br>k grid diagonal component of number of k points in<br> the dielectric tensor the irreducible Brillouin zone<br><br>4*4*4 23.668350065 8<br>
6 *6*6 16.297485614 16<br>8 *8*8 14.044830694 29<br>10 *10*10 13.288531964 47<br>12*12*12 13.029602882 72<br>
16 *16*16 12.908820645 145<br>20 *20*20 12.894538380 256<br><br>k grid+ 1 1 1 shift diagonal component of number of k points in<br>
the dielectric tensor the irreducible Brillouin zone<br><br>4*4*4 13.840844632 10<br>6*6*6 12.997009732 28<br>
8*8*8 12.903849607 60<br>10*10*10 12.893711596 110<br>12*12*12 12.892685597 182<br>
16*16*16 12.892482798 408<br>20*20*20 12.892537346 770<br> <br>I was surprised of the improvement in the convergence due to the shift of the grid. I don't think this is related to the number of k points <br>
in the IBZ (at least not<span> exclusively</span>).<br>I have observed a similar behavior in diamond. <br>The ground state energy convergence also benefits from the shift, but the improvement is not so striking.<br>
Does someone has any hint on why the shift of the grid improves the calculation of the dielectric properties of silicon?<br>Thanks a lot<br>Dario Rocca, dept. of chemistry, UC Davis <br><br></div>
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