[QE-users] DFT+U - error when using the pseudopotential projectors

Iurii TIMROV iurii.timrov at epfl.ch
Wed Dec 7 16:26:05 CET 2022


Dear Thomas,


> Does anyone ever used the pseudo projectors?


I have been interested in this well, but I did not have time to play with it. As far as I know, this type of projectors and the corresponding code are rarely used and it might be that something has been broken over the years, but I am not sure. The reference person for this implementation is Prof. Andrea Dal Corso, or you can check by yourself the code and see what could be the issue if you have time/experience.  Maybe someone else can comment more on this.


Greetings,

Iurii


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From: users <users-bounces at lists.quantum-espresso.org> on behalf of Thomas Brumme <tbrumme at msx.tu-dresden.de>
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 4:15:18 PM
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Subject: [QE-users] DFT+U - error when using the pseudopotential projectors

Dear all,

I wanted to try different projectors in my calculations in order to
estimate their influence and also to
see if this could explain certain differences we see in comparison with
VASP calculations. I will paste
the input file below. Now, in order to use the pseudos of the pslibary
and to be sure that the
projectors are there, I recreated the corresponding pseudos, explicitly
setting lsave_wfc = .true. as
mentioned in the INPUT_PW files. Yet, the calculation does not start but
stops with this error:

  > QQ_AE matrix:
  0.985684 0.060950 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  0.060950 0.086116 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  0.000000 0.000000 0.970171-0.011672 0.000000 0.000000
  0.000000 0.000000-0.011672 0.513952 0.000000 0.000000
  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.829735 0.134914
  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.134914 0.343559
  nbH=          -1 , lH           2

  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
      Error in routine init_q_aeps (1):
      could not set nbH
  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

      stopping ...

I could not find anything related to this error in the mailing list.
Does anyone ever used the pseudo
projectors? Because usually it is suggested to use ortho-atomic... Ah, I
used the developer version
of QE from yesterday, so it should be pretty recent.

Any help concerning the proper usage of the pseudo projectors in the
DFT+U approach is highly
appreciated :)

Kind regards

Thomas Brumme


The input:

&control
     calculation='vc-relax'
     restart_mode='from_scratch',
     prefix='CoPS3'
     pseudo_dir = '/home/tbrumme/pseudos/pslibrary.1.0.0/pbesol/'
     outdir='/scratch/ws/0/tbrumme-WSe2_MoSe2/'
     verbosity='high'
     max_seconds=84600,
  /
  &system
     ibrav = 0,
     nat = 20,
     ntyp = 4,
     nspin = 2,
     ecutwfc = 80.0,
     ecutrho = 640.0,
     occupations = 'smearing',
     smearing = 'mv',
     degauss = 0.02,
     starting_magnetization(1) =  2.0,
     starting_magnetization(2) = -2.0,
     vdw_corr = 'grimme-d3'
     dftd3_version = 4
     Hubbard_occ(1,1) = 7.00
     Hubbard_occ(2,1) = 7.00
/
&electrons
     conv_thr =  1.d-8
     mixing_beta = 0.2
     electron_maxstep = 500
/
&ions
/
&cell
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Co1  58.93  Co.pbesol-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
Co2  58.93  Co.pbesol-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
P    30.97   P.pbesol-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
S    32.06   S.pbesol-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF

K_POINTS {automatic}
6 4 6 0 0 0

CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)
   5.8969998360         0.0000000000         0.0000000000
   0.0000000000        10.2159996033         0.0000000000
  -1.9672647655         0.0000000000         6.3670060311
ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
Co1      0.000000000         3.394776821         0.000000000
Co2      0.000000000         6.821222782         0.000000000
Co2      2.948499918         8.502776146         0.000000000
Co1      2.948499918         1.713223100         0.000000000
P        0.002085491         0.000000000         1.088757992
P        3.927649736         0.000000000         5.278247833
P        2.950585365         5.107999802         1.088757992
P        0.979149818         5.107999802         5.278247833
S        3.915214777         0.000000000         1.566283464
S        0.014520367         0.000000000         4.800722599
S        0.966715097         5.107999802         1.566283464
S        2.963020086         5.107999802         4.800722599
S        0.992270052         1.715266347         1.559916496
S        2.937465191         8.500733376         4.807089329
S        2.937465191         1.715266347         4.807089329
S        0.992270052         8.500733376         1.559916496
S        3.940770149         6.823265553         1.559916496
S       -0.011034934         3.392733574         4.807089329
S       -0.011034934         6.823265553         4.807089329
S        3.940770149         3.392733574         1.559916496

HUBBARD pseudo
U Co1-3d 5.0
U Co2-3d 5.0


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