[Pw_forum] ibrav=2 and space_group=202: input coordinate misunderstood

Musil Félix felix.musil at epfl.ch
Fri Sep 15 22:22:04 CEST 2017


Dear Paolo,


I am not sure to understand. The documentation on ibrav=2 shows the following cell convention:

2          cubic F (fcc)
      v1 = (a/2)(-1,0,1),  v2 = (a/2)(0,1,1), v3 = (a/2)(-1,1,0)

which corresponds to a fcc primitive cell and the position input that I provide corresponds to this cell.
How could the position input be in simple cubic while the cell input is a primitive cell ?
Thanks for your prompt reply.

Cheers,

Felix




Félix Musil
Doctoral Assistant - Ph.D Student

EPFL STI IMX COSMO
LABORATORY OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND MODELLING
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
MXG 319
Station 12
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

E-mail: felix.musil at epfl.ch
http://cosmo.epfl.ch/
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Objet : Re: [Pw_forum] ibrav=2 and space_group=202: input coordinate misunderstood

If I remember correctly Wyckoff positions for fcc crystals are in simple cubic axis (the so-called "conventional" unit cell), while the atom you are looking at in the output is in crystal axis of the fcc cell. If you look at the same atom in cartesian axis:
        1           Si  tau(   1) = (  -0.6943213   0.4949861   0.5050079  )
it has the same x,y,z positions as the input one, displaced by (1.5, 0.0, 0.5)

Paolo

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Musil Félix <felix.musil at epfl.ch<mailto:felix.musil at epfl.ch>> wrote:
Dear QE developers,

I am running the following input file and the resulting output has changed the non equivalent scaled atomic coordinates (see highlighted in yellow). I compared with space group 224 with ibrav=1 and these scaled coordinates do match. Is there a reason for this particular behavior ?

Please find attached an input file to reproduce this behavior.

Cheers,

Felix Musil

QE INPUT:

&CONTROL
  calculation = "scf"
  outdir = "./out/"
  prefix = "qe"
  pseudo_dir = "/scratch/musil/run_qe/pseudo/SSSP_acc_PBE/"
  restart_mode = "from_scratch"
  verbosity = "high"
  wf_collect = .false.
/
&SYSTEM
  ecutrho = 40.00000
  ecutwfc = 10.00000
  ibrav = 2
  nat = 1
  nbnd = 57
  ntyp = 1
  occupations = "smearing"
  smearing = "cold"
  degauss = 0.010000
  space_group = 202
  A = 11.740480817708141
/
&ELECTRONS
  conv_thr = 0.10000000
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
  Si  28.0855  Si.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS  crystal_sg
  Si    0.80567873  0.49498614 0.00500792

QE OUTPUT:

     Program PWSCF v.6.1 (svn rev. 13369) starts on 15Sep2017 at 18:33: 4

     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     8 processors
     R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =       8
     Reading input from /scratch/musil/data/check_input_errors/sg_202-f_0-0/qe.in<http://qe.in>
.
.
.

     celldm(1)=  22.186293  celldm(2)=   0.000000  celldm(3)=   0.000000
     celldm(4)=   0.000000  celldm(5)=   0.000000  celldm(6)=   0.000000

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

.
.
.

   Crystallographic axes

     site n.     atom                  positions (cryst. coord.)
         1           Si  tau(   1) = (  0.7043430  0.3056728  0.6842995  )
         2           Si  tau(   2) = (  0.3056728  0.7043430  0.3056847  )
         3           Si  tau(   3) = (  0.3056847  0.6842995  0.3056728  )
         4           Si  tau(   4) = (  0.6842995  0.3056847  0.7043430  )
         5           Si  tau(   5) = (  0.6842995  0.3056728  0.3056847  )
         6           Si  tau(   6) = (  0.3056847  0.7043431  0.6842995  )
         7           Si  tau(   7) = (  0.3056728  0.6842995  0.7043431  )
         8           Si  tau(   8) = (  0.7043431  0.3056847  0.3056728  )
         9           Si  tau(   9) = (  0.3056847  0.3056728  0.7043430  )
        10           Si  tau(  10) = (  0.6842995  0.7043430  0.3056728  )
        11           Si  tau(  11) = (  0.7043430  0.6842995  0.3056847  )
        12           Si  tau(  12) = (  0.3056728  0.3056847  0.6842995  )
        13           Si  tau(  13) = (  0.2956570  0.6943272  0.3157005  )
        14           Si  tau(  14) = (  0.6943272  0.2956570  0.6943153  )
        15           Si  tau(  15) = (  0.6943153  0.3157005  0.6943272  )
        16           Si  tau(  16) = (  0.3157005  0.6943153  0.2956570  )
        17           Si  tau(  17) = (  0.3157005  0.6943272  0.6943153  )
        18           Si  tau(  18) = (  0.6943153  0.2956569  0.3157005  )
        19           Si  tau(  19) = (  0.6943272  0.3157005  0.2956569  )
        20           Si  tau(  20) = (  0.2956569  0.6943153  0.6943272  )
        21           Si  tau(  21) = (  0.6943153  0.6943272  0.2956570  )
        22           Si  tau(  22) = (  0.3157005  0.2956570  0.6943272  )
        23           Si  tau(  23) = (  0.2956570  0.3157005  0.6943153  )
        24           Si  tau(  24) = (  0.6943272  0.6943153  0.3157005  )



Félix Musil
Doctoral Assistant - Ph.D Student

EPFL STI IMX COSMO
LABORATORY OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND MODELLING
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
MXG 319
Station 12
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

E-mail: felix.musil at epfl.ch<mailto:felix.musil at epfl.ch>
http://cosmo.epfl.ch/

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