[QE-users] energy due to vacancy

Tone Kokalj tone.kokalj at ijs.si
Thu Jan 9 09:20:40 CET 2020


On 2020-01-09 09:03, Pooja Vyas wrote:
> Equilibrium supercell is a unit cubical box. so if its 2*2*2 cell
> parameters, don't we need to multiply celldm by 2?

It depends on the way you specify the cell, i.e.:

1. you can multiply the celldm(1) by a factor of two, but then specify 
CELL_PARAMETERS as:

CELL_PARAMETERS (alat)
   1.0 0.0 0.0
   0.0 1.0 0.0
   0.0 0.0 1.0

Note that in this case it is preferable to set ibrav=1 (i.e. 
simple-cubic) and avoid CELL_PARAMETERS.

2. You can leave celldm(1) as it is, but then specify:

CELL_PARAMETERS (alat)
   2.0 0.0 0.0
   0.0 2.0 0.0
   0.0 0.0 2.0

Best regards,
Tone Kokalj


> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 5:34 PM Laurent Pizzagalli
> <laurent.pizzagalli at univ-poitiers.fr> wrote:
> 
>> 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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