<div dir="ltr">Dear Andrea,<div><br></div><div>>This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric >field<br>>calculation with spin-orbit coupling.<br><br><br>I have done electric field + SOC calculation already as suggested by Professor Gabriele Sclauzero.</div>
<div>Now the question is how to get spin up and spin down bnads?</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Kaloni</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Andrea Dal Corso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dalcorso@sissa.it" target="_blank">dalcorso@sissa.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:27 +0300, Thaneshwor Kaloni wrote:<br>
> Dear Professor Cyrille,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Thank you very much for your prompt and kind reply.<br>
> But still I am getting following kind of error with inclusion of<br>
> nspin=4<br>
><br>
><br>
>  from iosys : error #         1<br>
>      LSDA not available with electric field<br>
<br>
</div>This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric field<br>
calculation with spin-orbit coupling.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
Andrea<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:18 PM, BARRETEAU Cyrille<br>
> <<a href="mailto:cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr">cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
>         If you want to use SOC or do non-collinear caculation you<br>
>         should take nspin=4<br>
>         (If you do not define nspin it will be automatically be set to<br>
>         4)<br>
><br>
>           Cyrille<br>
><br>
><br>
>         ============================================================<br>
>         Cyrille Barreteau                                 phone :      <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%291%2069%2008%2029%2051" value="+33169082951">+33 (0)1 69 08 29 51</a><br>
>         CEA Saclay                                       cellphone:   <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%296%2047%2053%2066%2052" value="+33647536652">+33 (0)6 47 53 66 52</a><br>
>         IRAMIS, SPCSI,  Bat. 462                fax :            <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%291%2069%2008%2084%2046" value="+33169088446">+33 (0)1 69 08 84 46</a><br>
>         91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex               email:            <a href="mailto:cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr">cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr</a><br>
>         FRANCE<br>
>         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
>         Web: <a href="http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/cyrille.barreteau/" target="_blank">http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/cyrille.barreteau/</a><br>
>         ==============================================================<br>
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<div><div class="h5">>         De : <a href="mailto:pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org">pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org">pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org</a>]<br>
>         de la part de Thaneshwor Kaloni [<a href="mailto:tkaloni@gmail.com">tkaloni@gmail.com</a>]<br>
>         Date d'envoi : jeudi 5 juillet 2012 12:47<br>
>         À : pw_forum<br>
>         Objet : [Pw_forum] error with spin polarized calculation with<br>
>         SOC<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>         Dear QE Users,<br>
><br>
><br>
>         I would like to perform spin polarized calculations with SOC.<br>
>         I am receiving following errors. Could anyone please assist<br>
>         me?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>         **************************************<br>
>         INPUT<br>
>         ***************************************<br>
>         &control<br>
>             calculation='scf',<br>
>             restart_mode='from_scratch',<br>
>             prefix='C',<br>
>             pseudo_dir = '/home/kalonitp/code/pseudo/',<br>
>             outdir='t/',<br>
>             tefield = .true.<br>
>             dipfield = .true.<br>
>         /<br>
>          &system<br>
>             ibrav = 4, a=3.86, b=3.86,<br>
>             c=15,cosac=0.0, cosbc=0.0, cosab=-0.5<br>
>             nat=2, ntyp=1, nbnd=10,<br>
>             ecutwfc =60,<br>
>             occupations='smearing',smearing='gaussian', degauss=0.05,<br>
>             lspinorb=.true.<br>
>             noncolin=.true.<br>
>             nspin=2,<br>
>             starting_magnetization=0.7<br>
>             london=.true.<br>
>             edir = 3<br>
>             eamp = 0.001<br>
>             emaxpos = 0.5<br>
>             eopreg = 0.1<br>
>         /<br>
>          &ELECTRONS<br>
>             mixing_beta=0.7,<br>
>             conv_thr = 1.0D-6,<br>
>         /<br>
>         ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
>         Si    28.0855     Si.pbe-rrkj.UPF<br>
>         ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)<br>
>         Si      -0.001668875  -0.003337750   0.007491059<br>
>         Si       0.331668875   0.663337750   0.037508941<br>
>         K_POINTS {automatic}<br>
>         8 8 1 0 0 0<br>
><br>
><br>
>         ******************************************************<br>
>         OUTPUT<br>
>         *************************************************************<br>
>              Program PWSCF v.4.3.1      starts on  5Jul2012 at<br>
>         11:13:34<br>
><br>
><br>
>              This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO<br>
>         suite<br>
>              for quantum simulation of materials; please cite<br>
>                  "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21<br>
>         395502 (2009);<br>
>                   URL <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org</a>",<br>
>              in publications or presentations arising from this work.<br>
>         More details at<br>
><br>
>          <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wiki/index.php/Citing_Quantum-ESPRESSO" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wiki/index.php/Citing_Quantum-ESPRESSO</a><br>
><br>
><br>
>              Parallel version (MPI), running on    10 processors<br>
>              R & G space division:  proc/pool =   10<br>
><br>
><br>
>              Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:<br>
>              Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10<br>
>              Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000<br>
>              Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  3<br>
>              Waiting for input...<br>
>              Presently no symmetry can be used with electric field<br>
><br>
><br>
>          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
>         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
>              from iosys : error #         1<br>
>              noncolin .and. nspin==2 are conflicting flags<br>
>          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
>         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
><br>
><br>
>              stopping ...<br>
><br>
><br>
>         Best, Kaloni<br>
>         King Abdullah University of Science and Technology<br>
>         KSA, Saudi Arabia<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Best regards, Kaloni<br>
> Web page:<br>
> <a href="http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238" target="_blank">http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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Andrea Dal Corso                    Tel. 0039-040-3787428<br>
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265              Fax. 0039-040-3787249<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Best regards, Kaloni<br>Web page:<br><a href="http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238">http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238</a><br>
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