[QE-users] Why magnetic system give zero magnetic moment for all atoms

Giuseppe Mattioli giuseppe.mattioli at ism.cnr.it
Sun Apr 18 13:36:16 CEST 2021


Dear Jibiao Li
IMHO, your system is not "obviously" magnetic as it has an even number  
of electrons that may be fully paired. If you want to calculate energy  
differences between different accessible spin states, you should also  
fix the tot_magnetization value of your system to meaningful values,  
e.g. 0, 2, ... PBE might not be the best functional to calculate such  
differences, anyway. You may want to read this old but very  
interesting paper to have an idea of theoretical limits of DFT i the  
case of small inorganic molecules chemisorbed by Fe (a most relevant  
biological topic!)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp070549l

HTH
Giuseppe

Quoting Jibiao Li <jibiaoli at foxmail.com>:

> Dear All,
>
>
> I am performing spin polarized calcualtion with the developer  
> version. My system is CO adsorpion on a single Fe atom embeded in a  
> single sheet of graphene. Obviously this system is magetic. However,  
> the calculation gives zero magnetic moments for all atoms (see  
> below). Is it normal or is there anything wrong with my calculations ?
>
>
>      negative rho (up, down):  1.127E-03 1.127E-03
>  
>      Magnetic moment per site  (integrated on  
> atomic sphere of radius R)
>      atom   1 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 2.6752  magn=  0.0000
>      atom   2 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9377  magn= -0.0000
>      atom   3 (R=0.052)  charge=  
> 11.7120  magn= -0.0000
>      atom   4 (R=0.044)  charge=   
> 2.4585  magn= -0.0000
>      atom   5 (R=0.044)  charge=   
> 2.4585  magn= -0.0000
>      atom   6 (R=0.044)  charge=   
> 2.4583  magn=  0.0000
>      atom   7 (R=0.044)  charge=   
> 2.4583  magn=  0.0000
>      atom   8 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9651  magn=  0.0000
>      atom   9 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9693  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  10 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9693  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  11 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9701  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  12 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9598  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  13 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9701  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  14 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9776  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  15 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9562  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  16 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9562  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  17 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9838  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  18 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9838  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  19 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9907  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  20 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9747  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  21 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9625  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  22 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9747  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  23 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9647  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  24 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9688  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  25 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9688  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  26 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9746  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  27 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9623  magn=  0.0000
>      atom  28 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9746  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  29 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9904  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  30 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9837  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  31 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9837  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  32 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9775  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  33 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9567  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  34 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9567  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  35 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9703  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  36 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9595  magn= -0.0000
>      atom  37 (R=0.038)  charge=   
> 0.9703  magn= -0.0000
>
>      total cpu time spent up to now is    
>   4133.5 secs
>
>      End of self-consistent calculation
>
>
>
>
>  &CONTROL
>                  calculation = 'relax'  
> ,
>                 restart_mode = 'from_scratch'  
> ,
>                       outdir = './'  
> ,
>                   pseudo_dir = '/home/jibiaoli/pseudo/'  
> ,
>                       prefix = '2d'  
> ,
>                        nstep = 199  
> ,
>  /
>  &SYSTEM
>                        ibrav =  
> 8,
>                    celldm(1) =  
> 23.59760901,
>                    celldm(2) =  
> 0.592429525,
>                    celldm(3) =  
> 1.5817524,
>                          nat =  
> 37,
>                         ntyp =  
> 4,
>                      ecutwfc = 49  
> ,
>                      ecutrho = 511  
> ,
>                  occupations = 'smearing'  
> ,
>                      degauss = 0.02D0  
> ,
>                     smearing = 'gaussian'  
> ,
>                        nspin =  
> 2,
>    starting_magnetization(1) = -0.1,
>    starting_magnetization(2) = 2.8,
>    starting_magnetization(3) = -0.1,
>    starting_magnetization(4) = 0,
>  /
>  &ELECTRONS
>              
> electron_maxstep = 299,
>                  mixing_beta = 0.2D0  
> ,
>               
> diagonalization = 'david' ,
>  /
>  &IONS
>                 ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'  
> ,
>  /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>    O    15.999  O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>    Fe   55.850  Fe.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>     N   14.007  N.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>     C   12.010  C.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom
> O              
> 6.9340166756         
> 3.6989245228        3.8528176290
> C              
> 6.9340166756         
> 3.6989245228        2.6728176290
> Fe             
> 6.9340166756         
> 3.6989245228        0.8728176290  
> N              
> 5.6059434603         
> 2.4072809825        0.8730142439
> N              
> 5.6059434603         
> 4.9905680641        0.8730142439
> N              
> 8.2619454617         
> 2.4072286380        0.8730110298
> N              
> 8.2619454617         
> 4.9906204086        0.8730110298
> C             
> -0.0178633308         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730568507
> C             
> -0.0178354701         
> 2.4770183342        0.8730574443
> C             
> -0.0178354701         
> 4.9208307125        0.8730574443
> C              
> 2.0828914672         
> 1.2436366562        0.8730559742
> C              
> 2.1294070947         
> 3.6989245238        0.8730543580
> C              
> 2.0828914672         
> 6.1542123905        0.8730559742
> C              
> 4.1515598342         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730547888
> C              
> 4.2422651536         
> 2.4525822834        0.8730507905
> C              
> 4.2422651536         
> 4.9452667633        0.8730507905
> C              
> 6.2369236427         
> 1.2005616382        0.8730586550
> C              
> 6.2369236427         
> 6.1972874084        0.8730586550
> C              
> 8.3173386913         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730685226
> C             
> 10.3713556874         
> 1.2412551379        0.8730644966
> C             
> 10.3159798880         
> 3.6989245238        0.8730564313
> C             
> 10.3713556874         
> 6.1565939088        0.8730644966
> C              
> 1.3983816512         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730550420
> C              
> 1.3982497647         
> 2.4770211151        0.8730548598
> C              
> 1.3982497647         
> 4.9208279316        0.8730548598
> C              
> 3.4964768966         
> 1.2412907830        0.8730582823
> C              
> 3.5518074884         
> 3.6989245238        0.8730504409
> C              
> 3.4964768966         
> 6.1565582637        0.8730582823
> C              
> 5.5504587549         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730644983
> C              
> 7.6308954080         
> 1.2005515154        0.8730595405
> C              
> 7.6308954080         
> 6.1972975312        0.8730595405
> C              
> 9.7162145171         
> 0.0000000000        0.8730613644
> C              
> 9.6256116280         
> 2.4525476568        0.8730541166
> C              
> 9.6256116280         
> 4.9453013898        0.8730541166
> C             
> 11.7849236132         
> 1.2436057457        0.8730599352
> C             
> 11.7383344691         
> 3.6989245238        0.8730590021
> C             
> 11.7849236132         
> 6.1542433010        0.8730599352
> K_POINTS automatic
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> Dr. Jibiao Li,
> Department of Material Science and Engineering
> Yangtze Normal University
> Juxian Dadao 16#, Fuling, Chongqing, China
> Email: jibiaoli at yznu.edu.cn, jibiaoli at foxmail.com, jibiao.li at hotmail.com
> Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jibiao_Li



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