[QE-users] Raman intensities in quantum espresso (Paolo Giannozzi)

Banhi Chatterjee Banhi.Chatterjee at ijs.si
Wed Jun 16 12:13:41 CEST 2021


Dear Paolo,

Thank you very much for the reply. I shall try it uncommenting the line
lraman=.true.

Regards
Banhi

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> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:55:27 +0200
> From: Lorenzo Paulatto <paulatz at gmail.com>
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> Hello Shivam,
> you can use some graphical tool, probably, or do it by hand. I
> personally do not use any external tool, I cannot advice you there.
> With some simple computing software like matlab/octave, or python or
> even excel, it does not take that long, and it becomes easier every
> time.
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> Once you have put all the atoms in the right place, be sure to put
> them in a large enough cell to have 10-20? of vacuum around to avoid
> images from interacting.
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> On Jun 15 2021, at 9:49 am, Shivam Kansara <sidkans23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I am Shivam Kansara and wish to work on nanoparticle systems. I wish 
>> to make a bulk system into nanoparticles (0D). So how to make 
>> nanoparticles from bulk systems e.g. FeO or CoO. ?
>> Please help me in this regard.
>> 
>> Thanking you in advance
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> CrystalMaker is a really cool tool which can do that kind of thing.
> It's graphical and reads cif files.  You can use it
> to make a superlattice then edit out the atoms you don't want.
> There's also the command-line cif2cell tool which I know
> can make slabs, so it can surely carve out nanos bounded by given
> crystal planes.  I assume the bulk is the rocksalt
> structure, in which case you'd want to bound by 111-family planes to
> get an octahedron or tetrahedron or 100 for a cube.
> For a cuboctahedron or something similar, you'd need to make a
> combination of cuts.
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> Sincerely,
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> On 6/15/2021 11:55 AM, Lorenzo Paulatto wrote:
>> Hello Shivam,
>> you can use some graphical tool, probably, or do it by hand. I 
>> personally do not use any external tool, I cannot advice you there. 
>> With? some simple computing software like matlab/octave, or python or 
>> even excel, it does not take that long, and it becomes easier every 
>> time.
>> 
>> Once you have put all the atoms in the right place, be sure to put 
>> them in a large enough cell to have 10-20? of vacuum around to avoid 
>> images from interacting.
>> 
>> kind regards
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>> --
>> Lorenzo Paulatto - Paris
>> On Jun 15 2021, at 9:49 am, Shivam Kansara <sidkans23 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
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>>     Dear all,
>>     I am Shivam Kansara and wish to work on nanoparticle systems. I 
>> wish to make a bulk system into nanoparticles (0D). So how?to 
>> make?nanoparticles from bulk systems e.g. FeO or CoO. ?
>>     Please help me in this regard.
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>>     Thanking?you in advance
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> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:32:40 +0200
> From: Paolo Giannozzi <p.giannozzi at gmail.com>
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> Hard to say without knowing exactly what goes out of which memory 
> limits.
> Note that not all arrays are distributed across processors, so a
> considerable number of arrays are replicated on all processes. As a
> consequence the total amount of required memory will increase with the
> number of mpi processes. Also note that a 128-atom cell is not "large" 
> and
> 144 cores are not "a small number of processors". You will not get any
> advantage by just increasing the number of processors any more, quite 
> the
> opposite. If you have too many idle cores, you should consider
> - "task group" parallelization (option -ntg)
> - MPI+OpenMP parallelization (configure --enable-openmp)
> Please also note that ecutwfc=80 Ry is a rather large cutoff for a USPP
> (while ecutrho=320 is fine) and that running with K_POINTS Gamma 
> instead of
> 1 1 1 0 0 0 will be faster and take less memory.
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> Paolo
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> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:22 PM Lenz Fiedler <fiedler.lenz at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Dear users,
>> 
>> I am trying to perform a MD simulation for a large cell (128 Fe atoms,
>> gamma point) using pw.x and I get a strange scaling behavior. To test 
>> the
>> performance I ran the same MD simulation with an increasing number of 
>> nodes
>> (2, 4, 6, 8, etc.) using 24 cores per node. The simulation is 
>> successful
>> when using 2, 4, and 6 nodes, so 48, 96 and 144 cores resp (albeit 
>> slow,
>> which is within my expectations for such a small number of 
>> processors).
>> Going to 8 and more nodes, I run into an out-of-memory error after 
>> about
>> two time steps.
>> I am a little bit confused as to what could be the reason. Since a 
>> smaller
>> amount of cores works I would not expect a higher number of cores to 
>> run
>> without an oom error as well.
>> The 8 node run explictly outputs at the beginning:
>> "     Estimated max dynamical RAM per process >     140.54 MB
>>       Estimated total dynamical RAM >      26.35 GB
>> "
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>> which is well within the 2.5 GB I have allocated for each core.
>> I am obviously doing something wrong, could anyone point to what it 
>> is?
>> The input files for a 6 and 8 node run can be found here:
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kro3ooa2OngvddB8RL-6Iyvdc07xADNJ?usp=sharing
>> I am using QE6.6.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Lenz
>> 
>> PhD Student (HZDR / CASUS)
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> If Raman coefficients are correctly computed, there will be a column
> labelled "Raman" and one "depol.fact" (depolarization factor) in the 
> output
> of dynmat.x. You can plot it the way you prefer. Note that the 
> calculation
> of  Raman cross sections was disabled in example15.
> 
> Paolo
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> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 9:17 PM Banhi Chatterjee 
> <Banhi.Chatterjee at ijs.si>
> wrote:
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>> Dear users,
>> 
>> I have calculated the normal modes around Gamma point of a compound 
>> using
>> ph.x.
>> 
>> All my modes are Raman active. I have followed example15 in the 
>> tutorials
>> of the
>> 
>> release q-e-qe-6.7MaX-Release.tar.gz.
>> 
>> After completing the phonon calculations I run dynmat.x.
>> 
>> Then I extract and plot the Raman frequecies and intensities
>> 
>> using the following two commands.
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>> awk ?NR==1,/mode/{next}/DYNMAT/,NR==0{next}{print}? si.dm.out >
>> plotdata_si.dat
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>> plot ?plotdata_si.dat? u ($2):($3) title ? si-RAMAN? w i lw 2
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>> I want to clarify if this is the correct way to extract the Raman
>> intensities. If not,
>> 
>> where can I find how to do this in an appropriate way.
>> 
>> Thanking you,
>> 
>> Banhi Chatterjee
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>> Dr. Banhi Chatterjee
>> Post-doctoral researcher
>> Jozef stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
>> e-mail: Banhi.Chatterjee at ijs.si
>>         banhiphy at gmail.com
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