[Pw_forum] E-field: please any response!

Paolo Giannozzi p.giannozzi at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 21:03:08 CET 2016


By the way: in the provided input, eamp=0 implies "no electric field"

Paolo

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Giuseppe Mattioli <
giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it> wrote:

>
> Dear Jaret
> Sometimes it happens that we simply do not have any useful answer...
> You are mixing an impressive amount of "non standard" DFT features
> like electric field, full DFT+U method, in a junction between strongly
> correlated, open-shell systems. If something goes wrong it is *very
> difficult* to say what! So try first "brute force":
>
>      mixing_beta=0.02,
>      electron_maxstep=1000
>
> If you still do not reach convergence, then start simplifying your
> system toward plain DFT. I do not know why you are using the sawtooth
> potential, but you could also flick through the documentation of all
> the assume_isolated='esm' cases. One of them might be useful to you,
> and the calculation are quite stable, at least in my experience.
> HTH
> Giuseppe
>
> Quoting Jaret Qi <jaretqi at yahoo.com>:
>
> > Hello QE users,I am trying to apply saw-like electric field on a
> > structure (input is given below), but it reached 500 step without
> > converging, I do not know if something wrong with the input file,
> > please take a look on the input:
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------part of
> > the output:     total energy              =   -3007.64456350 Ry
> >      Harris-Foulkes estimate   =   -3007.64456538 Ry
> >      estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00002171 Ry
> >
> >      total magnetization       =     0.39 Bohr mag/cell
> >      absolute magnetization    =     3.46 Bohr mag/cell
> >
> >      End of self-consistent calculation
> >
> >      convergence NOT achieved after 500 iterations: stopping
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Input: &control
> >     calculation  = 'relax'
> >     restart_mode = 'from_scratch'
> >     pseudo_dir   = './'
> >     outdir       = './'
> >     nstep = 100 ,
> >     tefield = .true.
> >     dipfield = .true.
> >  /
> >  &system
> >     ibrav=0
> >     celldm(1)=7.540006694
> >     nat=40
> >     ntyp=7
> >     ecutwfc = 30 ,
> >     ecutrho=300
> >     occupations='smearing'
> >     degauss=0.02
> >     nspin=2
> >     starting_magnetization(2) = 1
> >     lda_plus_u = .true.
> >     Hubbard_U(2)= 2
> >     Hubbard_J0(2)=0.7
> >     edir = 3
> >     eamp = 0.00
> >     emaxpos = 0.7
> >     eopreg = 0.1
> >  /
> >  &electrons
> >     mixing_beta=0.3,
> >     electron_maxstep=500
> > /
> > &IONS
> > /
> >
> > ATOMIC_SPECIES
> > -------------------------------
> > ATOMIC_POSITIONS (alat)
> > La       0.001181668   0.001181668   6.050060401
> > Mn       0.469738707   0.469738707   6.565742621
> > O        0.469473688   0.469473688   6.085964317
> > O        0.468843692   0.000348383   6.538606525
> > O        0.000348383   0.468843692   6.538606525
> > Sr       0.001039864   0.001039864   7.064792061
> > Mn       0.469676094   0.469676094   7.557901982
> > O        0.469624727   0.469624727   7.056571078
> > O        0.468925802   0.000293611   7.575881614
> > O        0.000293611   0.468925802   7.575881614
> > La       0.000993325   0.000993325   8.089910079
> > Mn       0.469504247   0.469504247   8.593701257
> > O        0.469318550   0.469318550   8.039436909
> > O        0.469234084   0.000344639   8.527412698
> > O        0.000344639   0.469234084   8.527412698
> > Pb      -0.014392827  -0.014392827   0.254329743    1   1   0
> > Ti       0.449335594   0.449335594   0.744524878    1   1   0
> > O        0.445630194   0.445630194   0.292667664    1   1   0
> > O        0.446866894  -0.020789811   0.782939868    1   1   0
> > O       -0.020789811   0.446866894   0.782939868    1   1   0
> > Pb      -0.016727738  -0.016727738   1.262175978
> > Ti       0.450604754   0.450604754   1.820354388
> > O        0.447848259   0.447848259   1.358571068
> > O        0.447194479  -0.020103191   1.926302938
> > O       -0.020103191   0.447194479   1.926302938
> > Pb      -0.006882381  -0.006882381   2.371864847
> > O        0.446926722   0.446926722   2.551971810
> > O        0.468151164  -0.002813857   3.241466866
> > O       -0.002813857   0.468151164   3.241466866
> > Pb      -0.004895228  -0.004895228   3.694395477
> > Ti       0.469851616   0.469851616   4.313940138
> > O        0.470070311   0.470070311   3.861981065
> > O        0.469479771   0.000630908   4.426237872
> > O        0.000630908   0.469479771   4.426237872
> > Pb       0.002684401   0.002684401   4.871067455
> > Ti       0.470100084   0.470100084   5.489734431
> > O        0.469191796   0.469191796   5.033815628
> > O        0.469294913   0.000554244   5.600299218
> > O        0.000554244   0.469294913   5.600299218
> > Zr       0.464031631   0.464031631   3.060505444
> > K_POINTS {automatic}
> >   6 6 1 0 0 0
> >
> > CELL_PARAMETERS alat
> >    0.937980317  -0.000009219   -0.000131497
> >   -0.000009219   0.937980317   -0.000131497
> >   -0.001221078  -0.001221078   15.641997242
> >
> >
> > --------------------------thank youJaret, QiASU
>
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