[QE-users] Problem with ph.x

Carlos Reis carlos.loia.reis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 10:45:47 CET 2021


Dear Paolo

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Is there any tool that I can use to convert the unit cell vectors and
atomic positions in a format so that q-e recognize the correct symmetry and
generates the appropriate input for q-e?

Best regards,
Carlos Reis.


On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:50 PM Paolo Giannozzi <p.giannozzi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, no, it's the same problem that was reported some time ago. Your
> lattice has a higher symmetry (tetragonal I) than triclinic (ibrav=14):
>    ibrav     = 7, celldm(1) =     16.22739617, celldm(3) =      0.6324556
> corresponding to crystal axes (alat units)
>                a(1) = (   0.500000  -0.500000   0.316228 )
>                a(2) = (   0.500000   0.500000   0.316228 )
>                a(3) = (  -0.500000  -0.500000   0.316228 )
> with atomic positions (no warranty):
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {alat}
>          Si  0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000
>          Si  0.4000000   0.8000000   0.0000000
>          Si  0.6000000   0.2000000   0.0000000
>          Si  0.2000000   0.4000000   0.0000000
>          Si  1.0000000   0.5000000   0.1581139
>          Si  0.6000000   0.7000000   0.1581139
>          Si  0.4000000   0.3000000   0.1581139
>          Si  0.2000000  -0.1000000   0.1581139
>          C   0.8000000   0.6000000   0.0000000
>          C   0.8000000   0.1000000   0.1581139
>
> The symmetry searching algorithm detects one symmetry, in addition to the
> identity, and this is compatible with the FFT grid computed for the
> tetragonal I lattice (48 48 48: the three lattice vectors have the same
> length), but not for the triclinic lattice (60 60 48: two vectors have the
> same length, different from the third).
>
> Paolo
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:35 AM Paolo Giannozzi <p.giannozzi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Very strange. I have opened an item in the "Issues" section:
>>    https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/-/issues/301
>> Paolo
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:26 PM Carlos Reis <carlos.loia.reis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I use this file to perform a scf calculation
>>>
>>> &CONTROL
>>>   calculation = 'scf',
>>>    pseudo_dir = '.',
>>>    wf_collect = .true.,
>>> /
>>> &SYSTEM
>>>   ibrav     = 14,
>>>  celldm(1) =     16.22739617
>>>  celldm(2) =      1.00000000
>>>  celldm(3) =      0.77459667
>>>  celldm(4) =      0.64549723
>>>  celldm(5) =      0.64549723
>>>         nat =    10 ,
>>>        ntyp =     2 ,
>>>        nbnd =    28 ,
>>>     ecutwfc =         30.000 ,
>>> /
>>> &ELECTRONS
>>>   diagonalization = 'david',
>>> /
>>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>>> Si        28.085500                   Si.UPF
>>> C         12.011000                    C.UPF
>>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {crystal}
>>>    Si          -0.00000000     -0.00000000      0.00000000
>>>    Si           0.40000000      0.80000000      0.00000000
>>>    Si           0.60000000      0.20000000      0.00000000
>>>    Si           0.20000000      0.40000000      0.00000000
>>>    Si           0.75000000      0.25000000      0.50000000
>>>    Si           0.35000000      0.45000000      0.50000000
>>>    Si           0.15000000      0.05000000      0.50000000
>>>    Si          -0.05000000     -0.35000000      0.50000000
>>>    C            0.80000000      0.60000000      0.00000000
>>>    C            0.55000000     -0.15000000      0.50000000
>>> K_POINTS {automatic}
>>>        4       4       4       1       1       1
>>>
>>> and then I run ph.x with this input file:
>>>
>>> --
>>> &inputph
>>>   prefix   = 'pwscf',
>>>   epsil    = .false.,
>>>   fildyn   = 'pwscf.dyn',
>>>   ldisp    = .true.
>>>   fildvscf = 'dvscf'
>>>   nq1=1,
>>>   nq2=1,
>>>   nq3=1,
>>>  /
>>>
>>>     Program PHONON v.6.7MaX starts on 16Mar2021 at 17:18:57
>>>
>>>      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    16 processors
>>>
>>>      MPI processes distributed on     1 nodes
>>>      K-points division:     npool     =      16
>>>      Waiting for input...
>>>      Reading input from standard input
>>>
>>>      Reading xml data from directory:
>>>
>>>      ./pwscf.save/
>>>      file C.UPF: wavefunction(s)  3d renormalized
>>>
>>>      IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :
>>>      Exchange-correlation= PZ
>>>                            (   1   1   0   0   0   0   0)
>>>      Any further DFT definition will be discarded
>>>      Please, verify this is what you really want
>>>
>>>
>>>      G-vector sticks info
>>>      --------------------
>>>      sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
>>>      Sum        2521    2521    821                30009    30009    5631
>>>
>>>      Reading collected, re-writing distributed wavefunctions
>>>
>>>
>>>      Dynamical matrices for ( 1, 1, 1)  uniform grid of q-points
>>>      (   1 q-points):
>>>        N         xq(1)         xq(2)         xq(3)
>>>        1   0.000000000   0.000000000   0.000000000
>>>
>>>      Saving dvscf to file. Distribute only q points, not irreducible
>>> represetations.
>>>
>>>      Calculation of q =    0.0000000   0.0000000   0.0000000
>>>      warning: symmetry operation #  2 not compatible with FFT grid.
>>>    1   0   0
>>>    0   1   0
>>>    1   1  -1
>>>
>>>
>>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>
>>>
>>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>      Error in routine phq_setup (1):
>>>      FFT grid incompatible with symmetry
>>>
>>>  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there any way to easily fix this? should I have to manually specify
>>> nr1, nr2, nr3?
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Carlos Reis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,
>> Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
>> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
>>
>>
>
> --
> Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,
> Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222
>
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