<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div>I don't know much about BEEF functionals, but the corresponding library in QE (LIBBEEF, which is independent from libxc) was added quite recently. Perhaps you should try with the develop version of QE.</div><div>Hope it helps, cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Fabrizio<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:33 AM Jibiao Li <<a href="mailto:jibiaoli@foxmail.com">jibiaoli@foxmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear QE experts,</div><div><br></div><div>I am performing calculations using QE6.4.1 with LIBXC 4.3.4. However, no matter how I specify input_dft in the input file, the following error message appears:<br></div><div><br></div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br> task # 2<br> from set_dft_from_name : error # 1<br> BEEF: unrecognized dft<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br></div><div><br></div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br> task # 12<br> from set_dft_from_name : error # 1<br> BEEFVDW: unrecognized dft<br>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div><br></div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br> task # 41<br> from set_dft_from_name : error # 1<br> BEEF_VDW: unrecognized dft<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br> task # 18<br> from set_dft_from_name : error # 1<br> BEEF-VDW: unrecognized dft<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does any one know how should I specify input_dft when using BEEF-vdW functional?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much! I need your help<br></div><div><br></div><div>BEGIN</div>BEGIN_PATH_INPUT<br>&PATH<br> restart_mode = 'from_scratch',<br> string_method = 'neb',<br> nstep_path = 198,<br> ds = 1.D0,<br> opt_scheme = 'broyden',<br> first_last_opt = .TRUE.,<br> num_of_images = 9,<br> k_max = 0.6D0,<br> k_min = 0.6D0,<br> CI_scheme = 'auto',<br>/<br>END_PATH_INPUT<br>BEGIN_ENGINE_INPUT<br>&CONTROL<br> prefix = 'hdw',<br> outdir = './',<br> pseudo_dir = '/home/pc/pseudo/PAW',<br>/<br>&SYSTEM<br> ibrav = 8,<br> celldm(1) = 15.596671813,<br> celldm(2) = 1.154699881261,<br> celldm(3) = 2.876257,<br> nat = 51,<br> ntyp = 3,<br> ecutwfc = 49 ,<br> ecutrho = 411 ,<br> occupations = 'smearing' ,<br> degauss = 0.05D0 ,<br> smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' ,<br> vdw_corr = 'DFT-D',<br> input_dft = 'beef-vdw',<br>/<br>&ELECTRONS<br> electron_maxstep = 199,<br> mixing_beta = 0.2D0 ,<br> diagonalization = 'david' ,<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> O 15.999 O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br> H 1.0079 H.pbe-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br> Pd 106.40 Pd.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF <br>BEGIN_POSITIONS<br>FIRST_IMAGE<br><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom <br></div><div>...</div><div>INTERMEDIATE_IMAGE<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom <br>...</div><div>LAST_IMAGE<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom <br>...</div><div>END_POSITIONS<br>K_POINTS automatic <br> 2 2 1 0 0 0 <br>END_ENGINE_INPUT<br>END<br><br></div><br><br><div><hr style="margin:0px 0px 10px;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(228,229,230);border-style:none none solid;border-width:0px 0px 1px;height:0px;line-height:0;font-size:0px;padding:20px 0px 0px;width:50px" align="left"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff"><b>Dr. Jibiao Li, </b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff"><b>Department of Material Science and Engineering</b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff"><b>Yangtze Normal University</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"><b><span style="text-align:left;text-transform:none;line-height:21px;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;float:none;background-color:transparent">Juxian Dadao 16#,</span> Fuling, Chongqing, China</b></font></font></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff"><b>Email: <a href="mailto:jibiaoli@yznu.edu.cn" target="_blank">jibiaoli@yznu.edu.cn</a>, <a href="mailto:jibiaoli@foxmail.com" target="_blank">jibiaoli@foxmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:jibiao.li@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jibiao.li@hotmail.com</a></b></font></i></div><div><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#0000ff"><b>Homepage: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jibiao_Li" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jibiao_Li</a></b></font></i></div>
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