[QE-users] Regarding phonon calculation error

Satyasiban Dash ph19d005 ph19d005 at smail.iitm.ac.in
Sun Jul 4 09:38:39 CEST 2021


Thank you Sir for your response.

What Can I do to improve it?
Do it need to change the smearing to fixed ?
Will that help?


On Sat, 3 Jul, 2021, 10:07 pm Paolo Giannozzi, <p.giannozzi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:59 PM Satyasiban Dash ph19d005 <
> ph19d005 at smail.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
>
>>
>>    I have been trying to calculate phonon spectra and both scf and ph.x
>> calculations went smoothly.
>>
>
> it seems to me that with your data the phonon calculation does not go
> smoothly at all. The system has a gap. Computing phonons and
> electron-phonon coefficients as for a metallic system leads to diverging
> (and bogus) values of the Fermi energy shift
>
> Paolo
>
> Paolo
>
> But while going for q2r.x I am facing the same problem. I am providing scf
>> input,ph.x input and q2r input and output below. Please let me know what I
>> am  doing wrong.
>>
>> scf input
>>
>> /lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/ss/azo/scf,
>> /lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/scratch/job285490
>>
>> &CONTROL
>>   calculation = 'scf'
>>   restart_mode ='from_scratch'
>>   etot_conv_thr =   4.0000000000d-05
>>   forc_conv_thr =   1.0000000000d-04
>>   outdir = 'job285490'
>>   prefix = 'zn'
>>   pseudo_dir = '/lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/pseudo'
>>   tprnfor = .true.
>>   tstress = .true.
>>   verbosity = 'low'
>> /
>> &SYSTEM
>>   degauss =   7.3498618000d-03
>>   ecutrho =   400
>>   ecutwfc =   50
>>   ibrav = 0
>>   nat = 4
>>   nosym = .false.
>>   ntyp = 2
>>   occupations = 'smearing'
>>   smearing = 'cold'
>>   la2f =.true.
>>
>> /
>> &ELECTRONS
>>   conv_thr =   8.0000000000d-10
>>   electron_maxstep = 80
>>   mixing_beta =   4.0000000000d-01
>> /
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>> O      15.9994 O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.1.UPF
>> Zn     65.38   Zn_pbe_v1.uspp.F.UPF
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
>> Zn           0.3333333333       0.6666666667       0.0005480000
>> Zn           0.6666666667       0.3333333333       0.5005480000
>> O            0.3333333333       0.6666666667       0.3797620000
>> O            0.6666666667       0.3333333333       0.8797620000
>> K_POINTS automatic
>> 8 8 6 0 0 0
>> CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
>>       3.2891020487       0.0000000000       0.0000000000
>>      -1.6445510243       2.8484459298       0.0000000000
>>       0.0000000000       0.0000000000       5.3068210000
>>
>>
>> ph.x input
>>
>>
>>
>> /lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/ss/azo/ph,
>> /lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/scratch/job290114
>>
>> &inputph
>>  prefix= 'zn'
>>  outdir = '/lfs/usrhome/phd/ph19d005/scratch/job285490/job285490'
>>  amass(1)= 65.38
>>  amass(2)= 15.9994
>>  fildyn= 'zn.dyn'
>>  ldisp= .true.
>>  tr2_ph= 1.000d-14
>>  fildvscf ='zndv'
>>  electron_phonon ='simple'
>>  nq1= 4
>>  nq2= 4
>>  nq3= 2
>>
>> /
>>
>>
>> q2r.x input
>>
>>
>> &input
>>
>>    zasr ='simple'
>>    la2f =.true.
>>    fildyn = 'zn.dyn'
>>    flfrc = 'zn886.fc'
>>
>>  /
>>
>> Now this is the output for q2r.x which is having problem
>>
>>
>>
>>      Program Q2R v.6.7MaX starts on  2Jul2021 at 16:16:44
>>
>>      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);
>>          "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 29 465901 (2017);
>>           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    20 processors
>>
>>      MPI processes distributed on     2 nodes
>>      R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =      20
>>
>>      reading grid info from file zn.dyn0
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn1
>>   Dielectric Tensor not found
>>   nqs=            1
>>  q=   0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn2
>>   nqs=            1
>>  q=   0.00000000  0.00000000 -0.30989382
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn3
>>   nqs=            6
>>  q=   0.00000000  0.28867514  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.00000000 -0.28867514  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.25000000 -0.14433757  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.25000000 -0.14433757  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.25000000  0.14433757  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.25000000  0.14433757  0.00000000
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn4
>>   nqs=            6
>>  q=   0.00000000  0.28867514 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.00000000 -0.28867514 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.25000000 -0.14433757 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.25000000 -0.14433757 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.25000000  0.14433757 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.25000000  0.14433757 -0.30989382
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn5
>>   nqs=            3
>>  q=   0.00000000 -0.57735027  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.50000000  0.28867514  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.50000000  0.28867514  0.00000000
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn6
>>   nqs=            3
>>  q=   0.00000000 -0.57735027 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.50000000  0.28867514 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.50000000  0.28867514 -0.30989382
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn7
>>   nqs=            6
>>  q=   0.25000000  0.43301270  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.25000000 -0.43301270  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.25000000 -0.43301270  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.50000000  0.00000000  0.00000000
>>  q=  -0.25000000  0.43301270  0.00000000
>>  q=   0.50000000  0.00000000  0.00000000
>>   reading force constants from file zn.dyn8
>>   nqs=            6
>>  q=   0.25000000  0.43301270 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.25000000 -0.43301270 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.25000000 -0.43301270 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.50000000  0.00000000 -0.30989382
>>  q=  -0.25000000  0.43301270 -0.30989382
>>  q=   0.50000000  0.00000000 -0.30989382
>>
>>       q-space grid ok, #points =   32
>>
>>       fft-check success (sum of imaginary terms < 10^-12)
>>
>>    Preparing gamma for a2F
>>
>>
>>
>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>      Error in routine gammaq2r (1):
>>      problem opening fileelph_dir/a2Fq2r.51.1
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank You.
>>
>>
>> Satyasiban Dash
>> Research Scholar
>> IIT Madras,India
>>
>>
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