[Pw_forum] Issue with PAW-BLYP pseudopots and spin-polarized calculations.

Gisela Bocan gbocan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 02:37:04 CET 2014


Already tried that. Did not work :-(

The output I always get looks like this:

     Program PWSCF v.5.1 starts on 21Nov2014 at 13:48:22

     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

     Parallel version (MPI), running on     9 processors
     R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =       9
     Waiting for input...
     Reading input from standard input

     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
               file F.blyp-n-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF: wavefunction(s)  2S 2P
renormalized
               file H.blyp-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF: wavefunction(s)  1S
renormalized

     Subspace diagonalization in iterative solution of the eigenvalue
problem:
     scalapack distributed-memory algorithm (size of sub-group:  2*  2
procs)


     Parallelization info
     --------------------
     sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
     Min         105      41     12                13435     3379     554
     Max         106      42     13                13454     3414     567
     Sum         949     373    113               120995    30565    5019

     Generating pointlists ...
     new r_m :   0.2063 (alat units)  1.5922 (a.u.) for type    1
     new r_m :   0.2063 (alat units)  1.5922 (a.u.) for type    2
     new r_m :   0.4125 (alat units)  3.1845 (a.u.) for type    3


     bravais-lattice index     =            8
     lattice parameter (alat)  =       7.7200  a.u.
     unit-cell volume          =    2530.5481 (a.u.)^3
     number of atoms/cell      =           17
     number of atomic types    =            3
     number of electrons       =        81.00
     number of Kohn-Sham states=           49
     kinetic-energy cutoff     =      20.0000  Ry
     charge density cutoff     =     200.0000  Ry
     convergence threshold     =      1.0E-08
     mixing beta               =       0.7000
     number of iterations used =            8  plain     mixing
     Exchange-correlation      =  SLA  LYP  B88  BLYP ( 1  3  1  3 0)

     celldm(1)=   7.720000  celldm(2)=   1.000000  celldm(3)=   5.500000
     celldm(4)=   0.000000  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) = (   0.000000   1.000000   0.000000 )
               a(3) = (   0.000000   0.000000   5.500000 )

     reciprocal axes: (cart. coord. in units 2 pi/alat)
               b(1) = (  1.000000  0.000000  0.000000 )
               b(2) = (  0.000000  1.000000  0.000000 )
               b(3) = (  0.000000  0.000000  0.181818 )


     PseudoPot. # 1 for  F read from file:
     /home/gbocan/HLiF001/PseudoPots/F.blyp-n-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
     MD5 check sum: ab51591266cfe6c1355604df55a98c19
     Pseudo is Projector augmented-wave + core cor, Zval =  7.0
     Generated using "atomic" code by A. Dal Corso  v.5.1
     Shape of augmentation charge: PSQ
     Using radial grid of 1105 points,  4 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1
               l(4) =   1
     Q(r) pseudized with 0 coefficients


     PseudoPot. # 2 for Li read from file:
     /home/gbocan/HLiF001/PseudoPots/Li.blyp-s-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
     MD5 check sum: aa34437da800ee1198383333ddb9a2ae
     Pseudo is Projector augmented-wave, Zval =  3.0
     Generated using "atomic" code by A. Dal Corso  v.5.1
     Shape of augmentation charge: PSQ
     Using radial grid of 1017 points,  4 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
                l(3) =   1
                l(4) =   1
     Q(r) pseudized with 0 coefficients


     PseudoPot. # 3 for  H read from file:
     /home/gbocan/HLiF001/PseudoPots/H.blyp-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
     MD5 check sum: ab4c408302926066b4b306e7e4129f31
     Pseudo is Projector augmented-wave, Zval =  1.0
     Generated using "atomic" code by A. Dal Corso  v.5.1
     Shape of augmentation charge: PSQ
     Using radial grid of  929 points,  2 beta functions with:
                l(1) =   0
                l(2) =   0
     Q(r) pseudized with 0 coefficients


     atomic species   valence    mass     pseudopotential
        F              7.00    18.99840      F( 1.00)
        Li             3.00     6.94100     Li( 1.00)
        H              1.00     1.00794      H( 1.00)

     Starting magnetic structure
     atomic species   magnetization
        F            0.000
        Li           0.000
        H            1.000

      8 Sym. Ops. (no inversion) found

...

     point group C_4v (4mm)
     there are  5 classes
     the character table:

       E     2C4   C2    2s_v  2s_d
A_1    1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00
A_2    1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00
B_1    1.00 -1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00
B_2    1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00  1.00
E      2.00  0.00 -2.00  0.00  0.00

     the symmetry operations in each class:
     E        1
     C2       2
     2C4      3    4
     2s_v     5    6
     2s_d     7    8

   Cartesian axes

     site n.     atom                  positions (alat units)
         1           H   tau(   1) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   3.5000000
)
         2           F   tau(   2) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   1.5000000
)
         3           Li  tau(   3) = (   0.5000000   0.0000000   1.5000000
)
         4           Li  tau(   4) = (   0.0000000   0.5000000   1.5000000
)
         5           F   tau(   5) = (   0.5000000   0.5000000   1.5000000
)
         6           Li  tau(   6) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   1.0000000
)
         7           F   tau(   7) = (   0.5000000   0.0000000   1.0000000
)
         8           F   tau(   8) = (   0.0000000   0.5000000   1.0000000
)
         9           Li  tau(   9) = (   0.5000000   0.5000000   1.0000000
)
        10           F   tau(  10) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   0.5000000
)
        11           Li  tau(  11) = (   0.5000000   0.0000000   0.5000000
)
        12           Li  tau(  12) = (   0.0000000   0.5000000   0.5000000
)
        13           F   tau(  13) = (   0.5000000   0.5000000   0.5000000
)
        14           Li  tau(  14) = (   0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000
)
        15           F   tau(  15) = (   0.5000000   0.0000000   0.0000000
)
        16           F   tau(  16) = (   0.0000000   0.5000000   0.0000000
)
        17           Li  tau(  17) = (   0.5000000   0.5000000   0.0000000
)

   Crystallographic axes

     site n.     atom                  positions (cryst. coord.)
         1           H   tau(   1) = (  0.0000000  0.0000000  0.6363636  )
         2           F   tau(   2) = (  0.0000000  0.0000000  0.2727273  )
         3           Li  tau(   3) = (  0.5000000  0.0000000  0.2727273  )
         4           Li  tau(   4) = (  0.0000000  0.5000000  0.2727273  )
         5           F   tau(   5) = (  0.5000000  0.5000000  0.2727273  )
         6           Li  tau(   6) = (  0.0000000  0.0000000  0.1818182  )
         7           F   tau(   7) = (  0.5000000  0.0000000  0.1818182  )
         8           F   tau(   8) = (  0.0000000  0.5000000  0.1818182  )
         9           Li  tau(   9) = (  0.5000000  0.5000000  0.1818182  )
        10           F   tau(  10) = (  0.0000000  0.0000000  0.0909091  )
        11           Li  tau(  11) = (  0.5000000  0.0000000  0.0909091  )
        12           Li  tau(  12) = (  0.0000000  0.5000000  0.0909091  )
        13           F   tau(  13) = (  0.5000000  0.5000000  0.0909091  )
        14           Li  tau(  14) = (  0.0000000  0.0000000  0.0000000  )
        15           F   tau(  15) = (  0.5000000  0.0000000  0.0000000  )
        16           F   tau(  16) = (  0.0000000  0.5000000  0.0000000  )
        17           Li  tau(  17) = (  0.5000000  0.5000000  0.0000000  )

     number of k points=     6  gaussian smearing, width (Ry)=  0.0000
                       cart. coord. in units 2pi/alat
        k(    1) = (   0.1250000   0.1250000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    2) = (   0.1250000   0.3750000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.5000000
        k(    3) = (   0.3750000   0.3750000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    4) = (   0.1250000   0.1250000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    5) = (   0.1250000   0.3750000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.5000000
        k(    6) = (   0.3750000   0.3750000  -0.0909091), wk =   0.2500000

                       cryst. coord.
        k(    1) = (   0.1250000   0.1250000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    2) = (   0.1250000   0.3750000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.5000000
        k(    3) = (   0.3750000   0.3750000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    4) = (   0.1250000   0.1250000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.2500000
        k(    5) = (   0.1250000   0.3750000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.5000000
        k(    6) = (   0.3750000   0.3750000  -0.5000000), wk =   0.2500000

     Dense  grid:   120995 G-vectors     FFT dimensions: (  36,  36, 192)

     Smooth grid:    30565 G-vectors     FFT dimensions: (  24,  24, 125)

     Largest allocated arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
        Kohn-Sham Wavefunctions         0.31 Mb     (     414,   49)
        NL pseudopotentials             0.82 Mb     (     414,  130)
        Each V/rho on FFT grid          0.87 Mb     (   28512,   2)
        Each G-vector array             0.10 Mb     (   13454)
        G-vector shells                 0.04 Mb     (    4961)
     Largest temporary arrays     est. size (Mb)     dimensions
        Each subspace H/S matrix        0.01 Mb     (      24,   24)
        Each <psi_i|beta_j> matrix      0.10 Mb     (     130,   49)
        Arrays for rho mixing           3.48 Mb     (   28512,    8)

     Check: negative/imaginary core charge=   -0.000007    0.000000
     Initial potential from superposition of free atoms
     Check: negative starting charge=(component1):   -0.000933
     Check: negative starting charge=(component2):   -0.004112

     starting charge   80.95900, renormalised to   81.00000

     negative rho (up, down):  9.336E-04 4.114E-03

 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
     Error in routine lsda_functionals (gcc_spin) (3):
     not implemented
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

     stopping ...

Gisela.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, stefano de gironcoli <degironc at sissa.it>
wrote:

>  there might be an issue when the number of electrons up or down is
> exactly zero...
> what if  starting_magnetization(3) = 0.9 ?
> stefano
>
>
>
> On 11/26/2014 08:03 PM, Gisela Bocan wrote:
>
>  There goes my input file:
>
>  Thanks again for the help!
>
>  Gisela.
>
>  &control
>    prefix      = 'myprefix',
>    outdir      = '/myoutdir',
>    pseudo_dir  = '/mypseudo',
>    calculation = 'scf',
>    tprnfor     = .true.,
>    lkpoint_dir = .false.,
>    verbosity   = 'high',
> /
> &system
>    ibrav       = 8,
>    celldm(1)   = 7.7199999870455960,
>    celldm(2)   = 1.0000000000000000,
>    celldm(3)   = 5.5000000092291739,
>    nat         = 17,
>    ntyp        = 3,
>    ecutwfc     = 80,
>    ecutrho     = 800.0,
>    occupations = 'smearing',
>    smearing    = 'gaussian',
>    degauss     = 1.e-6,
>    nspin       = 2,
>    starting_magnetization(1) = 0.
>    starting_magnetization(2) = 0.
>    starting_magnetization(3) = 1.0
> /
> &electrons
>    conv_thr = 1.d-8,
>    diagonalization = 'cg',
>    mixing_mode = 'plain',
>    mixing_beta = 0.7D0,
> /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>    F   18.9984032  F.blyp-n-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>    Li  6.941       Li.blyp-s-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>    H   1.00794     H.blyp-kjpaw_t_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>  ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>    H   0.00 0.00 .63636363   0  0  0
>    F   0.00 0.00 3./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.50 0.00 3./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.00 0.50 3./11.   0  0  0
>    F   0.50 0.50 3./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.00 0.00 2./11.   0  0  0
>    F   0.50 0.00 2./11.   0  0  0
>    F   0.00 0.50 2./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.50 0.50 2./11.   0  0  0
>    F   0.00 0.00 1./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.50 0.00 1./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.00 0.50 1./11.   0  0  0
>    F   0.50 0.50 1./11.   0  0  0
>    Li  0.00 0.00 0.00000000   0  0  0
>    F   0.50 0.00 0.00000000   0  0  0
>    F   0.00 0.50 0.00000000   0  0  0
>    Li  0.50 0.50 0.00000000   0  0  0
> K_POINTS automatic
>    4 4 1  1 1 1
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it
> > wrote:
>
>> Please provide a simple input test
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 14:49 -0300, Gisela Bocan wrote:
>> > Thanks for your answer!
>> > The code version is 5.1
>> >
>> >
>> > Gisela.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Paolo Giannozzi
>> > <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it> wrote:
>> >         Code version?
>> >
>> >         P.
>> >
>> >         On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 11:02 -0300, Gisela Bocan wrote:
>> >         > Help!
>> >         >          I am trying to run a scf calculation for an H atom
>> >         on a
>> >         > LiF(001) surface. I am using PAW-BLYP pseudopots from the
>> >         pslibrary.
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > F.blyp-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> >         > Li.blyp-s-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> >         > H.blyp-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > Everything works if I set nspin=1 but, on setting
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > nspin=2
>> >         > starting_magnetization(1)=0
>> >         > starting_magnetization(2)=0
>> >         > starting_magnetization(3)=1           <-- H species
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > I get the following error:
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > Error in routine lsda_functionals (gcc_spin) (3):
>> >         >      not implemented
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > This error does not occur if I change the pseudopots to
>> >         PAW-PBESOL.
>> >         > I am running version 5.1
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > ????
>> >         > Thanks!
>> >         >
>> >         >
>> >         > Dr. G. A. Bocan
>> >
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