[Pw_forum] RE : error with spin polarized calculation with SOC

Thaneshwor Kaloni tkaloni at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 13:59:55 CEST 2012


Dear Andrea,

>This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric >field
>calculation with spin-orbit coupling.


I have done electric field + SOC calculation already as suggested by
Professor Gabriele Sclauzero.
Now the question is how to get spin up and spin down bnads?

Best, Kaloni


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Andrea Dal Corso <dalcorso at sissa.it> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:27 +0300, Thaneshwor Kaloni wrote:
> > Dear Professor Cyrille,
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much for your prompt and kind reply.
> > But still I am getting following kind of error with inclusion of
> > nspin=4
> >
> >
> >  from iosys : error #         1
> >      LSDA not available with electric field
>
> This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric field
> calculation with spin-orbit coupling.
>
> HTH
>
> Andrea
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:18 PM, BARRETEAU Cyrille
> > <cyrille.barreteau at cea.fr> wrote:
> >         If you want to use SOC or do non-collinear caculation you
> >         should take nspin=4
> >         (If you do not define nspin it will be automatically be set to
> >         4)
> >
> >           Cyrille
> >
> >
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> >
> >         ______________________________________________________________
> >         De : pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org]
> >         de la part de Thaneshwor Kaloni [tkaloni at gmail.com]
> >         Date d'envoi : jeudi 5 juillet 2012 12:47
> >         À : pw_forum
> >         Objet : [Pw_forum] error with spin polarized calculation with
> >         SOC
> >
> >
> >
> >         Dear QE Users,
> >
> >
> >         I would like to perform spin polarized calculations with SOC.
> >         I am receiving following errors. Could anyone please assist
> >         me?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         **************************************
> >         INPUT
> >         ***************************************
> >         &control
> >             calculation='scf',
> >             restart_mode='from_scratch',
> >             prefix='C',
> >             pseudo_dir = '/home/kalonitp/code/pseudo/',
> >             outdir='t/',
> >             tefield = .true.
> >             dipfield = .true.
> >         /
> >          &system
> >             ibrav = 4, a=3.86, b=3.86,
> >             c=15,cosac=0.0, cosbc=0.0, cosab=-0.5
> >             nat=2, ntyp=1, nbnd=10,
> >             ecutwfc =60,
> >             occupations='smearing',smearing='gaussian', degauss=0.05,
> >             lspinorb=.true.
> >             noncolin=.true.
> >             nspin=2,
> >             starting_magnetization=0.7
> >             london=.true.
> >             edir = 3
> >             eamp = 0.001
> >             emaxpos = 0.5
> >             eopreg = 0.1
> >         /
> >          &ELECTRONS
> >             mixing_beta=0.7,
> >             conv_thr = 1.0D-6,
> >         /
> >         ATOMIC_SPECIES
> >         Si    28.0855     Si.pbe-rrkj.UPF
> >         ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)
> >         Si      -0.001668875  -0.003337750   0.007491059
> >         Si       0.331668875   0.663337750   0.037508941
> >         K_POINTS {automatic}
> >         8 8 1 0 0 0
> >
> >
> >         ******************************************************
> >         OUTPUT
> >         *************************************************************
> >              Program PWSCF v.4.3.1      starts on  5Jul2012 at
> >         11:13:34
> >
> >
> >              This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO
> >         suite
> >              for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
> >                  "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21
> >         395502 (2009);
> >                   URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
> >              in publications or presentations arising from this work.
> >         More details at
> >
> >
> http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wiki/index.php/Citing_Quantum-ESPRESSO
> >
> >
> >              Parallel version (MPI), running on    10 processors
> >              R & G space division:  proc/pool =   10
> >
> >
> >              Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:
> >              Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10
> >              Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000
> >              Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  3
> >              Waiting for input...
> >              Presently no symmetry can be used with electric field
> >
> >
> >          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >              from iosys : error #         1
> >              noncolin .and. nspin==2 are conflicting flags
> >          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >
> >              stopping ...
> >
> >
> >         Best, Kaloni
> >         King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
> >         KSA, Saudi Arabia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards, Kaloni
> > Web page:
> > http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>


-- 
Best regards, Kaloni
Web page:
http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238
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