<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear all, <br></div>
I am doing relax calculations on monolayer of graphene-like material
(2-D) under the presence of static homogeneous electric field in
z-direction (i.e. perpendicular to the layer). I am using a electric
field range of 0.1-0.5 V/angstrom. The problem is that the bfgs steps
are not converging (i.e. CASE: energy _new > energy _old) after 4-5
steps, if I apply a field value > 0.2 V/angstrom (0.0055 Ry.a.u).
Following is the relevant part of the code:<br>
...<br>/<br> &system<br> ibrav = 4,<br> celldm(1) = 7.5284, celldm(3) = 5.020259255 ,<br> nat = 10, ntyp = 3,<br> ecutwfc = 40, ecutrho = 400,<br> london = .true.,<br>/<br> &electrons<br> diagonalization = 'david', mixing_mode = 'local-TF',<br>
mixing_beta = 0.4, conv_thr = 1.0d-8, electron_maxstep = 125,<br> efield_cart(1) = 0.0,<br> efield_cart(2) = 0.0,<br> efield_cart(3) = .008<br>/<br> &ions<br>...<br>K_POINTS automatic<br> 12 12 1 0 0 0<br>
<br></div> Is it because the applied field is too high? I
have checked the paper Souza et al., PRL, 89, 117602 (2002) where they
have put a condition :<br><br></div> e|E.ai| < e|Ec.ai| ~ Egap/Ni<br>
</div><div>(E = magnitude of the electric field, ai = lattice vector, Ni = number of k-points in i direction, Egap = Band gap)<br></div>Is this condition true for aperiodic systems like mine where there's artificial periodicity in z-direction ? If it's true then:<br>
</div>for, Egap = 1.15 eV, N3 = 1 and a3 = 20 angstrom gives an Emax = 0.05 V/angstrom<br></div>whereas
if I use a3 as the layer thickness which is around 5.55 angstrom then
Emax = 0.0207 V/angstrom which is the value after which the relax
calculations are not converging. Is this interpretation correct?<br>
<br></div> Any kind of help is highly appreciated.<br><br></div>Thanks,<br></div>Rajdeep Banerjee<br></div><div>(Ph. D. Student)<br></div>Theoretical Sciences Unit<br></div>Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research<br>
</div>Bangalore, India</div>