[QE-users] EXX+soc in QE 6.3 ?

Ari P Seitsonen Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi
Wed Aug 15 16:28:31 CEST 2018


Dear Malte,

   Hmm, there seems to be the space inversion symmetry present in your 
system, thus no splitting...?

     Greetings,

        apsi

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On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, Malte Sachs wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've tried to perform a calculation of PbF2 with QE-6.3 using the hybrid 
> functional PBE0 together with spin-orbit coupling and the sg15-ONCP NCPPs. 
> The calculation starts and ends without errors. However, inspecting the 
> eigenvalues I cannot see any influence of the spin-orbit coupling. E.g. for 
> the Gamma-Point:
>
>   k = 0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 (  2085 PWs)   bands (ev):
>
>    -19.4836 -19.4836 -18.9442 -18.9442 -11.4661 -11.4661 -11.4661 -11.4661
>     -8.9347  -8.9347  -8.8598  -8.8598  -8.8598  -8.8598  -0.4010 -0.4010
>      1.0062   1.0062   1.0062   1.0062   1.0504   1.0504 1.4205   1.4205
>      1.5548   1.5548   1.5548   1.5548
>
> At least for the lowest Pb d-semi core states I would expect to see an 
> effect. Is exx+soc implemented in version 6.3?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Malte
>
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> Malte Sachs
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