[Pw_forum] Charge analysis in QE

Yang, Chi-Ta chita-yang at uiowa.edu
Wed Feb 10 18:35:56 CET 2016


Dear Giuseppe, 

I tried to check the new cartesian coordinates with xcrysden, but could not open and gave me error message  - Error: wrong # args: should be"pwInputPreset file".  I checked the structure with xyz file ,and found that the structure with new coordinates expands. The distances between atoms are almost twice longer than the original ones.  I am not sure if bader charge is reasonable upon this.

Please see below the first 5 coordinates of my system from original QE.in to final bader ACF file.

Thanks,
Chi-Ta
UI   

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------original.in
CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}
  5.698943615   0.0000000000   0.0000000000
 -4.2742077111  7.4031449178   0.0000000000  
  0.0000000000  0.0000000000   32.000000000
ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}
Li     1.409999974         0.814063944         4.686666946
Li    -0.000000069         1.628127888         9.373333892
Li    -0.000000011         3.256255557         4.686666946
Li    -1.409999949         4.070319174         9.373333892
Li    -1.410000059         5.698447280         4.686666946


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------pp.in  fileplot
      75     120     432      75     120     432      66       5
     0       10.76944268      0.00000000      0.00000000      0.00000000      0.00000000      0.00000000
   1.00000000000000       0.000000000000000E+000  0.000000000000000E+000
 -0.749999999973679        1.29903810564372       0.000000000000000E+000
  0.000000000000000E+000  0.000000000000000E+000   5.61507573364542     
     1410.1585948767       12.0000000000       40.0000000000     0
   1   Li    3.00
   2   Ni   10.00
   3   Mn   15.00
   4   Co    9.00
   5   O     6.00
   1       0.252079033    0.141015163    0.817121712    1
   2       0.005082174    0.280355405    1.656190248    1
   3       0.006369515    0.579747049    0.813824987    1
   4      -0.249162597    0.719321092    1.657458257    1
   5      -0.247504790    1.007537235    0.811527088    1


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------cube
 Cubfile created from PWScf calculation
  Total SCF Density
   66    0.000000    0.000000    0.000000
   75    0.143593    0.000000    0.000000
  120   -0.067309    0.116583    0.000000
  432    0.000000    0.000000    0.139980
    3    3.000000    2.714751    1.518655    8.799945
    3    3.000000    0.054732    3.019271   17.836246
    3    3.000000    0.068596    6.243553    8.764442
    3    3.000000   -2.683342    7.746687   17.849902
    3    3.000000   -2.665489   10.850615    8.739694


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------bader
  #         X           Y           Z        CHARGE     MIN DIST    ATOMIC VOL
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1   2.7147510   1.5186550   8.7999450   2.0988754   1.2593539  20.4268562
    2   0.0547320   3.0192710  17.8362460   2.1011053   1.2504756  20.1011325
    3   0.0685960   6.2435530   8.7644420   2.0990261   1.2389623  20.4596629
    4  -2.6833420   7.7466870  17.8499020   2.1025553   1.2311932  19.5598220
    5  -2.6654890  10.8506150   8.7396940   2.0998684   1.2281964  20.4315428





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From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org <pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org> on behalf of Giuseppe Mattioli <giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it>
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 9:01 AM
To: PWSCF Forum
Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Charge analysis in QE

Dear Chi-Ta

> ".cube" shows a new set of cartesian coordinates based on fileout,
> which is different from my original cartesian coordinates.

Check whether the refolding of coordinates into your supercell
possibly made by pw.x or pp.x yielded a different but equivalent set
of cartesian coordinates.

>  Is it normal to have a new set of cartesian coordinates? In this
> case, will it affect bader charge?

It is in cube files, and no, it does not affect the results of Bader analysis.

HTH

Giuseppe

Quoting "Yang, Chi-Ta" <chita-yang at uiowa.edu>:

> Dear Giuseppe,
>
> Thanks for your replay. I tried bader charge analysis, but have a
> concern about it.
> I used cartesian coordinates in my pw.x input file. I noticed that
> the coordinate systems in the output files of pp.x (fileout and.cube
> ) are different.
>
> "fileout" shows crystal coordinates
>
> ".cube" shows a new set of cartesian coordinates based on fileout,
> which is different from my original cartesian coordinates.
>
>  Is it normal to have a new set of cartesian coordinates? In this
> case, will it affect bader charge?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Chi-Ta Yang
> University of Iowa
>
> ________________________________________
> From: pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org <pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org> on
> behalf of Giuseppe Mattioli <giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it>
> Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 9:50 AM
> To: pw_forum at pwscf.org
> Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Charge analysis in QE
>
> Dear Chi-Ta Yang
>
>> For the charge analysis in QE, is it fine to use the charge values
>> from the .out files?
>
> No, it is a fast on-the-fly calculation. You can post-process your
> results a) with projwfc.x to obtain Lowdin charges or b) with pp.x
> to export the
> total charge density as a .cube file and then with an external tool
> you find here (http://theory.cm.utexas.edu/henkelman/code/bader) to
> calculate the
> Bader charges from the cube files. Better results are obtained by
> using denser FFT grids than default ones and by using NC or PAW PPs
> in the case of
> the Bader tool.
>
> HTH
> Giuseppe
>
> On Monday, February 08, 2016 03:26:32 PM Yang, Chi-Ta wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>>
>> For the charge analysis in QE, is it fine to use the charge values
>> from the .out files? (below)
>>
>> If yes, do you recommend to use high K point for a better quality
>> of these values or other recommendations? What kind of charge is
>> this (ex:
>> bader...) ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Magnetic moment per site:
>>      atom:    1    charge:    2.1845    magn:    0.1742    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    2    charge:    2.1716    magn:    0.1740    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    3    charge:    2.1820    magn:    0.1742    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    4    charge:    2.1826    magn:    0.1743    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    5    charge:    2.1711    magn:    0.1739    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    6    charge:    2.1841    magn:    0.1741    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    7    charge:    7.3535    magn:    1.9625    constr:    0.0000
>>      atom:    8    charge:    7.3507    magn:    2.0039    constr:    0.0000
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Chi-Ta Yang
>> University of Iowa
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