[Pw_forum] shape of the wave function in reciprocal space

Issam AD Issam maspi2016peace at gmail.com
Fri May 26 13:37:29 CEST 2017


Dear PWSCF users,
I'm a beginner in quantum espresso,  i tried to run a relaxation
calculation of α-Al2O3. i always receive an error in relax.out i checked
the atomic positions and the lattice parametters i made sure that they are
exactly saved in input, i will show you the input file if you can help me.

Many thanks in advance,

&control
    calculation          = 'relax'
    restart_mode      = 'from_scratch'
    prefix                  = 'AlO'
    tstress                = .true.
    tprnfor                 = .true.
    pseudo_dir         = '/home/isam/Public/upf_files/'
    outdir                  = './scratch/'
    verbosity            = 'high'
    etot_conv_thr     = 1e-7
    forc_conv_thr     = 1e-6
    nstep                  = 5000
    wf_collect           = .true.

&system
    ibrav                = 5
    celldm(1)         = 9.6945
    celldm(4)         = 0.56957
    nat                   =  10
    ntyp                 =  2

    nbnd                = 14

    ecutwfc           = 20
    nr1                  = 30
    nr2                  = 18
    nr3                  = 72

&electrons
    diagonalization      = 'david'
    mixing_mode         = 'plain'
    mixing_beta           = 0.7
    conv_thr                 = 1e-9
    electron_maxstep  = 999
/
&ions
    trust_radius_ini  = 0.100
    ion_dynamics      = 'bfgs'
/
&cell
    cell_dynamics     = 'bfgs'
    wmass             =  0.0001
    press             =  0
    cell_factor       =  2
/

ATOMIC_SPECIES
O    15.99940     O.pw91-van_ak.UPF
Al   26,9815386   Al.pbe-mt_fhi.UPF

ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal

   Al             0.352     0.352        0.352
   Al            -0.352        -0.352        0.352
   Al             0.852         0.852      0.852
   Al             0.148         0.148      0.148
   O              0.556        -0.056      0.250
   O             -0.056         0.250      0.556
   O              0.250         0.556     -0.056
   O              0.556         1.056     -0.250
   O              1.056        -0.250     -0.556
   O             -0.250        -0.556      1.050

K_POINTS automatic
 14 14 14   3*0

2017-05-26 6:22 GMT+00:00 Jacopo Simoni <simonij at tcd.ie>:

> Ok many thanks for the help
>
> Best regards, Jacopo Simoni
>
> On 26 May 2017 at 00:03, Paolo Giannozzi <p.giannozzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes
>>
>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jacopo Simoni <simonij at tcd.ie> wrote:
>> > Many thanks for the answer.
>> >
>> > This means that the G+k points written in the gkvectors.xml file are the
>> > ones such that
>> >
>> > \hbar^2|k+G|^2/(2m) < Ecut
>> >
>> > and they form a sphere not a parallelepiped
>> > I am right ?
>> >
>> > On 25 May 2017 at 23:49, Paolo Giannozzi <p.giannozzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Only plane waves with \hbar^2(k+G)^2/(2m) < Ecut are included. The
>> >> regular grid in G-space must be large enough to include all of them,
>> >> but it also includes a significant amount of plane waves that exceed
>> >> the cutoff.
>> >>
>> >> Paolo
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:46 AM, Jacopo Simoni <simonij at tcd.ie> wrote:
>> >> > Dear PWSCF users,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am doing a simple scf calculation for a system of 100 Hydrogen
>> atoms
>> >> > in a
>> >> > simple cubic cell.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am generating the wave functions with wf_collect=.true. for a
>> single K
>> >> > vector (0,0,0).
>> >> >
>> >> > From the scf output I realized that the total number of G vectors
>> >> > printed on
>> >> > the file is 847. I am using ecutwfc=20.0 and the shape of the
>> Kohn-Sham
>> >> > matrix is
>> >> >
>> >> > Kohn-Sham wave functions    dimensions=(847, 52)
>> >> >
>> >> > where 52 corresponds to the number of bands that I am using in the
>> >> > calculation.
>> >> >
>> >> > However, I am wondering why in the gkvectors.xml file I have a list
>> of G
>> >> > vectors ranging between -5 and 5 times 2*pi / a (a is the lattice
>> >> > parameter)
>> >> > along each primitive lattice direction.
>> >> >
>> >> > The total number of points in such a regular grid should be 11*11*11
>> =
>> >> > 1331
>> >> > that is clearly different from 847. What is the meaning of the
>> missing
>> >> > 484 G
>> >> > vectors in the grid ? I am a bit confused could you please explain
>> to me
>> >> > these results ?
>> >> >
>> >> > Many thanks in advance,
>> >> >
>> >> > Jacopo Simoni,
>> >> > Los Alamos National Laboratory
>> >> >
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>> >>
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