[QE-users] energy due to vacancy

Laurent Pizzagalli laurent.pizzagalli at univ-poitiers.fr
Wed Jan 8 13:04:14 CET 2020


Dear Pooja,

you should first change the line

"CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)"

to

"CELL_PARAMETERS (alat)"


HTH,

Laurent

On 08/01/2020 12:57, Pooja Vyas wrote:
> Following is my input file. Since ibrav=0, I removed celldm and gave a 
> run, but I face the following error:
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>      task #         0
>      from cdiaghg : error #       618
>      S matrix not positive definite
>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Input:
> &control
>     calculation = 'scf',
>     prefix = '9.1334'
>     tstress= .true.
>     tprnfor= .true.
>     outdir = '/home/userpooja/cao.oct/'
>     pseudo_dir = '/home/userpooja/cao.oct/pseudo/'
>  /
>  &system
>     ibrav =  0,
>     celldm(1)=9.1334,
>     nat =  64,
>     ntyp = 2,
>     ecutwfc = 100,
> /
> &electrons
>     mixing_beta = 0.7
>
> /
>
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>
> Ca 40.078  Ca.pbe-nsp-van.UPF
> O 15.999 O.pbe-van_ak.UPF
>
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
>    Ca    2.4165926060    2.4165926060    0.0000000000
>    Ca    0.0000000000    0.0000000000    0.0000000000
>    Ca    2.4165926060    0.0000000000    2.4165926060
>    Ca    0.0000000000    2.4165926060    2.4165926060
>     O    4.8331852120    4.8331852120    2.4165926060
>     O    2.4165926060    2.4165926060    2.4165926060
>     O    4.8331852120    2.4165926060    4.8331852120
>     O    2.4165926060    4.8331852120    4.8331852120
>    Ca    2.4165926060    2.4165926060    4.8331852120
>    Ca    0.0000000000    0.0000000000    4.8331852120
>    Ca    2.4165926060    0.0000000000    7.2497778180
>    Ca    0.0000000000    2.4165926060    7.2497778180
>     O    4.8331852120    4.8331852120    7.2497778180
>     O    2.4165926060    2.4165926060    7.2497778180
>     O    4.8331852120    2.4165926060    9.6663704240
>     O    2.4165926060    4.8331852120    9.6663704240
>    Ca    2.4165926060    7.2497778180    0.0000000000
>    Ca    0.0000000000    4.8331852120    0.0000000000
>    Ca    2.4165926060    4.8331852120    2.4165926060
>    Ca    0.0000000000    7.2497778180    2.4165926060
>     O    4.8331852120    9.6663704240    2.4165926060
>     O    2.4165926060    7.2497778180    2.4165926060
>     O    4.8331852120    7.2497778180    4.8331852120
>     O    2.4165926060    9.6663704240    4.8331852120
>    Ca    2.4165926060    7.2497778180    4.8331852120
>    Ca    0.0000000000    4.8331852120    4.8331852120
>    Ca    2.4165926060    4.8331852120    7.2497778180
>    Ca    0.0000000000    7.2497778180    7.2497778180
>     O    4.8331852120    9.6663704240    7.2497778180
>     O    2.4165926060    7.2497778180    7.2497778180
>     O    4.8331852120    7.2497778180    9.6663704240
>     O    2.4165926060    9.6663704240    9.6663704240
>    Ca    7.2497778180    2.4165926060    0.0000000000
>    Ca    4.8331852120    0.0000000000    0.0000000000
>    Ca    7.2497778180    0.0000000000    2.4165926060
>    Ca    4.8331852120    2.4165926060    2.4165926060
>     O    9.6663704240    4.8331852120    2.4165926060
>     O    7.2497778180    2.4165926060    2.4165926060
>     O    9.6663704240    2.4165926060    4.8331852120
>     O    7.2497778180    4.8331852120    4.8331852120
>    Ca    7.2497778180    2.4165926060    4.8331852120
>    Ca    4.8331852120    0.0000000000    4.8331852120
>    Ca    7.2497778180    0.0000000000    7.2497778180
>    Ca    4.8331852120    2.4165926060    7.2497778180
>     O    9.6663704240    4.8331852120    7.2497778180
>     O    7.2497778180    2.4165926060    7.2497778180
>     O    9.6663704240    2.4165926060    9.6663704240
>     O    7.2497778180    4.8331852120    9.6663704240
>    Ca    7.2497778180    7.2497778180    0.0000000000
>    Ca    4.8331852120    4.8331852120    0.0000000000
>    Ca    7.2497778180    4.8331852120    2.4165926060
>    Ca    4.8331852120    7.2497778180    2.4165926060
>     O    9.6663704240    9.6663704240    2.4165926060
>     O    7.2497778180    7.2497778180    2.4165926060
>     O    9.6663704240    7.2497778180    4.8331852120
>     O    7.2497778180    9.6663704240    4.8331852120
>    Ca    7.2497778180    7.2497778180    4.8331852120
>    Ca    4.8331852120    4.8331852120    4.8331852120
>    Ca    7.2497778180    4.8331852120    7.2497778180
>    Ca    4.8331852120    7.2497778180    7.2497778180
>     O    9.6663704240    9.6663704240    7.2497778180
>     O    7.2497778180    7.2497778180    7.2497778180
>     O    9.6663704240    7.2497778180    9.6663704240
>     O    7.2497778180    9.6663704240    9.6663704240
>
> CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)
> 2.0 0.0 0.0
> 0.0 2.0 0.0
> 0.0 0.0 2.0
>
> K_POINTS (automatic)
>   11 11 11 1 1 1
>
>
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