<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Quantum-Espresso users, </div><div><br></div><div>
I figured the small band gap of about 40 meV was caused by a displacement of about
0.001 Ang in the initial atomic coordinates of the second layer from the center of the hexagon of the first layer, and can be easily fixed by starting the ionic relaxation from a strictly symmetric structure ! </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Roozbeh</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 7:22 PM Roozbeh Anvari <<a href="mailto:roozbeh.anvari@gmail.com">roozbeh.anvari@gmail.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 dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Dear QuantumEspresso users, <div><br></div><div>I am trying to calculate the maximally localised wannier functions of defective bilayer graphene using quantumEspresso and Wannier90 codes, </div><div><br></div><div>however I am getting a band gap of about 40 to 60 meV for pristine bilayer graphene using a variety of NCPP+LDA and NCPP+PBE, the band gap and the interlayer distance are slightly improved (10 meV and 0.1 A ) after applying DFT-D3 but not significantly, I wonder how I can fix this issue (please see the sample setup that follows) ?</div><div><br></div><div>Please also note that I get an ideal zero band gap when using ultrasoft pseudopotential but it seems that Wannier90 has a preference for NCPP and I cannot get a nice fit to the band structure calculated using USPP,</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br></div><div>Roozbeh Anvari,</div><div>PDF, Physics Dept, Queen's University, Canada </div><div><br></div><div>Here is a shortened sample of the setup I use for vc-relax/scf calculations</div><div><br></div><div>&CONTROL<br>...</div><div> forc_conv_thr=1.0d-6,<br><br>&SYSTEM<br>...</div><div>occupations='smearing', smearing='cold', degauss=0.02<br>vdw_corr='grimme-d3' , input_dft='PBE'<br><br></div><div>&ELECTRONS<br>startingwfc='random', diagonalization='cg', conv_thr = 1.0e-12<br>mixing_beta = 0.2<br>/<br> &IONS<br> ion_dynamics='bfgs', upscale=20.0<br><br>&CELL<br> press_conv_thr = 0.5D0, press = 0.D0<br>cell_dynamics = 'bfgs',cell_dofree = '2Dxy', cell_factor = 1.5D0<br><br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>C 12.011 C.pbe-mt_gipaw_NC_PBE.UPF </div><div><br>K_POINTS automatic<br>36 36 1 0 0 0<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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