[Pw_forum] 6 symmetry operators not found in MgCl2

david Foster davidfoster751 at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 22 06:10:30 CET 2013


Hi Everydody,

I am working on MgCl2-beta catalyst. I prepared input file for QE. I used 5.0.2 version. All things are

OK except that of symmetry operators. The structure has 12 symmetry operators. I checked it with

usual graphical-based program (to do this, I used standard cif of the compound in the literature).

However, QE only shows 6 symmetry operators. Anybody can help?



Input:
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&CONTROL
                 calculation = 'relax' ,
                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,
                  wf_collect = .true. ,
                      outdir = '/root/espresso/' ,
                      wfcdir = '/root/espresso/tmp/' ,
                  pseudo_dir = '/root/espresso/pseudo/' ,
                      prefix = 'fe3_relax' ,
                 lkpoint_dir = .false. ,
                     disk_io = 'low' ,
                   verbosity = 'default' ,
               etot_conv_thr = 0.000001 ,
               forc_conv_thr = 0.0001 ,
                     tstress = .true. ,
                     tprnfor = .true. ,
 /
 &SYSTEM
                       ibrav = 4,
                   A=3.641001,
                   B=3.641001,
                   C=5.927,
                   cosAB=-0.5,
                   cosAC=0.0,
                   cosBC=0.0,
                        nat = 2,
                        ntyp = 2,
                     ecutwfc = 70 ,
                     ecutrho = 700 ,
                        nbnd = 20,
                  tot_charge = 0.000000,
                 occupations = 'smearing' ,
        one_atom_occupations = .false. ,
         starting_spin_angle = .false. ,
                     degauss = 0.01 ,
                    smearing = 'gaussian' ,
                       nspin = 2 ,
   starting_magnetization(1) = 0.6,
            exxdiv_treatment = 'gygi-baldereschi' ,
 /
 &ELECTRONS
            electron_maxstep = 100,
                    conv_thr = 1.0D-6 ,
                 startingpot = 'atomic' ,
                 startingwfc = 'atomic+random' ,
                 mixing_mode = 'plain' ,
                 mixing_beta = 0.7D0 ,
                 mixing_ndim = 8,
             diagonalization = 'david' ,
              diago_thr_init = 1.0D-2 ,
              diago_full_acc = .false. ,
            diago_david_ndim = 8,
 /
 &IONS
 /
ATOMIC_SPECIES
   Mg   24.305 Mg.blyp-hgh.UPF
   Cl   35.453 Cl.blyp-hgh.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom 
Mg  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Cl  0.000000  2.102133 1.363210
K_POINTS automatic 
  1 1 1   0 0 0 

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output:

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Program PWSCF v.5.0.2 (svn rev. 9392) starts on 21Dec2013 at 11:26:26 

     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/quote.php

     Parallel version (MPI), running on     4 processors
     R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =       4

     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
     Reading input from /root/espresso/PW/mgcl2.in

     Subspace diagonalization in iterative solution of the eigenvalue problem:
     a serial algorithm will be used

     Message from routine setup:
     no reason to have ecutrho>4*ecutwfc
 
     Parallelization info
     --------------------
     sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
     Min         568     228     55                35864     9090    1137
     Max         569     229     56                35867     9099    1142
     Sum        2275     913    223               143465    36371    4559
 


     bravais-lattice index     =            4
     lattice parameter (alat)  =       6.8805  a.u.
     unit-cell volume          =     459.2020 (a.u.)^3
     number of atoms/cell      =            2
     number of atomic types    =            2
     number of electrons       =         9.00
     number of Kohn-Sham states=           20
     kinetic-energy cutoff     =      70.0000  Ry
     charge density cutoff     =     700.0000  Ry
     convergence threshold     =      1.0E-06
     mixing beta               =       0.7000
     number of iterations used =            8  plain     mixing
     Exchange-correlation      = BLYP ( 1 3 1 3 0)
     EXX-fraction              =        0.00
     nstep                     =           50


     celldm(1)=   6.880495  celldm(2)=   1.000000  celldm(3)=   1.627849
     celldm(4)=  -0.500000  celldm(5)=   0.000000  celldm(6)=   0.000000

     crystal axes: (cart. coord. in units of alat)
               a(1) = (   1.000000   0.000000   0.000000 )  
               a(2) = (  -0.500000   0.866025   0.000000 )  
               a(3) = (   0.000000   0.000000   1.627849 )  

     reciprocal axes: (cart. coord. in units 2 pi/alat)
               b(1) = (  1.000000  0.577350  0.000000 )  
               b(2) = (  0.000000  1.154701  0.000000 )  
               b(3) = (  0.000000  0.000000  0.614308 )  


     PseudoPot. # 1 for Mg read from file:
     /root/espresso/pseudo/Mg.blyp-hgh.UPF
     MD5 check sum: f9b0d2a2ce0df356dee042fe705dc47a
     Pseudo is Norm-conserving, Zval =  2.0
     Generated in analytical, separable form
     Using radial grid of 1129 points,  3 beta functions with: 
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1

     PseudoPot. # 2 for Cl read from file:
     /root/espresso/pseudo/Cl.blyp-hgh.UPF
     MD5 check sum: fc684ed45ae2e85c043e5dae3a331798
     Pseudo is Norm-conserving, Zval =  7.0
     Generated in analytical, separable form
     Using radial grid of 1157 points,  3 beta functions with: 
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1

     atomic species   valence    mass     pseudopotential
        Mg             2.00    24.30500     Mg( 1.00)
        Cl             7.00    35.45300     Cl( 1.00)

     Starting magnetic structure 
     atomic species   magnetization
        Mg           0.600
        Cl           0.000

      6 Sym. Ops. (no inversion) found



   Cartesian axes

     site n.     atom                  positions (alat units)
         1           Mg  tau(   1) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000  )
         2           Cl  tau(   2) = (   0.0000000   0.5773503   0.3744053  )

     number of k points=     2  gaussian smearing, width (Ry)=  0.0100
                       cart. coord. in units 2pi/alat
        k(    1) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000), wk =   1.0000000
        k(    2) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000), wk =   1.0000000

     Dense  grid:   143465 G-vectors     FFT dimensions: (  60,  60,  96)

     Smooth grid:    36371 G-vectors     FFT dimensions: (  40,  40,  60)

     Largest allocated arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
        Kohn-Sham Wavefunctions         0.35 Mb     (   1140,   20)
        NL pseudopotentials             0.17 Mb     (   1140,   10)
        Each V/rho on FFT grid          2.64 Mb     (  86400,   2)
        Each G-vector array             0.27 Mb     (  35864)
        G-vector shells                 0.04 Mb     (   5772)
     Largest temporary arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
        Auxiliary wavefunctions         2.78 Mb     (   1140,  160)
        Each subspace H/S matrix        0.39 Mb     ( 160, 160)
        Each <psi_i|beta_j> matrix      0.00 Mb     (     10,   20)
        Arrays for rho mixing          10.55 Mb     (  86400,   8)
     writing wfc files to a dedicated directory

     Initial potential from superposition of free atoms

     starting charge    7.99895, renormalised to    9.00000
     Starting wfc are   13 randomized atomic wfcs

     total cpu time spent up to now is        0.9 secs

     per-process dynamical memory:    27.8 Mb

     Self-consistent Calculation

     iteration #  1     ecut=    70.00 Ry     beta=0.70
     Davidson diagonalization with overlap
     ethr =  1.00E-02,  avg # of iterations =  6.0

     total cpu time spent up to now is        1.8 secs

     total energy              =     -31.57680974 Ry
     Harris-Foulkes estimate   =     -31.61072051 Ry
     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.09996167 Ry

     total magnetization       =     1.00 Bohr mag/cell
     absolute magnetization    =     1.02 Bohr mag/cell

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total cpu time spent up to now is       25.3 secs

     End of self-consistent calculation

 ------ SPIN UP ------------


          k = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 (  4559 PWs)   bands (ev):

   -14.0592  -3.3597  -1.0157  -1.0157  -0.0288   5.8756   7.6987   9.5551
     9.5551  11.3779  11.4320  11.4320  13.5253  13.5253  13.8602  15.6371
    15.6371  16.2908  16.6038  18.0392

 ------ SPIN DOWN ----------


          k = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 (  4559 PWs)   bands (ev):

   -13.8573  -3.0325  -0.9321  -0.9321   1.3361   6.1915   8.1366   9.7393
     9.7393  11.7506  11.7506  12.2132  14.2509  14.8821  14.8821  16.4864
    16.4864  16.6399  18.1808  18.9699

     the Fermi energy is     0.6193 ev

!    total energy              =     -31.60806546 Ry
     Harris-Foulkes estimate   =     -31.60806545 Ry
     estimated scf accuracy    <          2.6E-09 Ry

     The total energy is the sum of the following terms:

     one-electron contribution =     -17.58258178 Ry
     hartree contribution      =      11.73884602 Ry
     xc contribution           =      -6.72020799 Ry
     ewald contribution        =     -19.04412171 Ry
     smearing contrib. (-TS)   =      -0.00000000 Ry

     total magnetization       =     1.00 Bohr mag/cell
     absolute magnetization    =     1.03 Bohr mag/cell

     convergence has been achieved in   3 iterations

     Forces acting on atoms (Ry/au):

     atom    1 type  1   force =     0.00000000    0.00000000   -0.00001948
     atom    2 type  2   force =    -0.00000000    0.00000000    0.00001948

     Total force =     0.000028     Total SCF correction =     0.000039
     SCF correction compared to forces is large: reduce conv_thr to get better values


     entering subroutine stress ...

          total   stress  (Ry/bohr**3)                   (kbar)     P=   59.87
   0.00063777   0.00000000   0.00000000         93.82      0.00      0.00
   0.00000000   0.00063777  -0.00000000          0.00     93.82     -0.00
   0.00000000  -0.00000000  -0.00005455          0.00     -0.00     -8.02


     bfgs converged in   7 scf cycles and   6 bfgs steps
     (criteria: energy < 0.10E-05, force < 0.10E-03)

     End of BFGS Geometry Optimization

     Final energy   =     -31.6080654560 Ry
Begin final coordinates

ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
Mg       0.000000000  -0.000000000  -0.088986292
Cl       0.000000000   2.102133000   1.452196292
End final coordinates
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   JOB DONE.
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Regards

David Foster

Ph.D. Student of Chemistry



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