<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I never use ism, maybe you can read relevant papers in the literature. However, if your purpose is just to simulate an isolated monolayer, just add to the lattice vector orthogonal to the monolayer<div class="">plane (a3, in your case) vacuum space, so if the current length is, just to make an example, 5 A, try to use 15 A. This is the so called supercell approach, discussed several times in the forum.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Giovanni</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Mar 2017, at 16:17, Anindya Bose <<a href="mailto:anindya@iiita.ac.in" class="">anindya@iiita.ac.in</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Actually I have used esm_bc to add vacuum in the structure.How can I add vacuum in this monolayer WSE2 structure using quantum espresso.Which code should be used.<br class=""><br class="">On Wednesday, March 1, 2017, Giovanni Cantele <<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" class="">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It is not clear how and to what extend your band structure differs from shat you expect.<br class="">
However, one issue I can see is that if you want to study MONOLAYER WSe2, you should be aware of the fact that the vacuum space, separating the periodic replicas<br class="">
along your z direction should be large enough to prevent them from interacting (otherwise, you are considering a periodic crystal also along<br class="">
that direction). Currently, as far as I can see such vacuum is < 5A, definitely too small to simulate a monolayer. Additionally, you also include vdw_corr, usually introduced<br class="">
to better describe inter-layer interaction, whereas you are claiming that you want to study a system composed by a single layer.<br class="">
Also, I think that you don’t need to use the variable esm_bc just to calculate the properties of a monolayer.<br class="">
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Giovanni<br class="">
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> On 1 Mar 2017, at 14:01, Anindya Bose <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'anindya@iiita.ac.in')" class="">anindya@iiita.ac.in</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Dear Sir,<br class="">
><br class="">
> &CONTROL<br class="">
> calculation='nscf',<br class="">
> outdir='monolayer WSe2',<br class="">
> prefix='calc',<br class="">
> pseudo_dir='/home/anindya/<wbr class="">Desktop/pseudopotentials',<br class="">
> verbosity='low',<br class="">
> disk_io='high',<br class="">
> wf_collect=.true.,<br class="">
> etot_conv_thr=1d-02,<br class="">
> forc_conv_thr=1d-02,<br class="">
> /<br class="">
><br class="">
> &SYSTEM<br class="">
> noncolin=.true.,<br class="">
> lspinorb=.true.,<br class="">
> ibrav=0,<br class="">
> celldm(1)=6.2020811408d0, celldm(3)=4.3566118221d0,<br class="">
> nat=3,<br class="">
> ntyp=2,<br class="">
> ecutwfc=40.0d0,<br class="">
> nbnd=200,<br class="">
> vdw_corr='Grimme-D2',<br class="">
> starting_magnetization=0.05,<br class="">
> force_symmorphic=.true.,<br class="">
> input_dft='PBE',<br class="">
> esm_bc='bc1',<br class="">
> no_t_rev=.false.,<br class="">
> /<br class="">
><br class="">
> &ELECTRONS<br class="">
> diagonalization='david',<br class="">
> conv_thr=1d-08,<br class="">
> mixing_mode='plain',<br class="">
> mixing_beta=0.700d0,<br class="">
> /<br class="">
><br class="">
> &ions<br class="">
> ion_dynamics ='bfgs',<br class="">
> /<br class="">
><br class="">
> &cell<br class="">
> cell_dynamics ='bfgs',<br class="">
> cell_factor=15,<br class="">
> /<br class="">
><br class="">
> ATOMIC_SPECIES<br class="">
> Se 78.960000d0 Se_ONCV_PBE-1.0_nr.oncvpsp.upf<br class="">
> W 183.840000d0 W_ONCV_PBE-1.1_nr.oncvpsp.upf<br class="">
><br class="">
> CELL_PARAMETERS (alat= 6.20208114)<br class="">
> 1.008112278 0.000000000 0.000000000<br class="">
> -0.504056139 0.873050842 0.000000000<br class="">
> 0.000000000 0.000000000 2.445357065<br class="">
><br class="">
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {alat}<br class="">
> W 0.504056139 0.291016947 1.222674975<br class="">
> Se 0.504056139 -0.291016947 0.699051439<br class="">
> Se 0.504056139 -0.291016947 1.746298512<br class="">
><br class="">
><br class="">
> K_POINTS {crystal_b}<br class="">
> 4<br class="">
> # Gamma-K-M-Gamma<br class="">
> 0 0 0 20 !G<br class="">
> 0.33 0.33 0 20 !K<br class="">
> 0.5 0 0 20 !M<br class="">
> 0 0 0 20 !G<br class="">
><br class="">
> I am not getting the WSe2 monolayer band structure, can you please help me in this regard.<br class="">
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