[Wannier] Convergence of MLWFs
Carlo Motta
MOTTAC at tcd.ie
Thu May 9 18:22:00 CEST 2013
Dear wannier90 users,
I am a new user and I am trying to calculate the MLWFs for the (HOMO, HOMO-1) bands of a a molecular crystal with 2 molecules per unit cell.
My problem is that I see instabilities in my results, in particular in the matrix elements in the durene_hr.dat.
I did convergence tests wrt the k-mesh and cutoff energy. The durene_hr.dat values are crazy (no regularity with respect to the convergence parameter).
I have checked that the wannierization has converged, since the Delta values are below 1E-7.
My beginning projections are random, since I have no clue on how to improve it for this large system.
Having 2 molecules in the unit cell, whose centers in crystal coordinates are 0.0,0.0,0.0 and 0.0,0.5,0.5, I tried to do this:
begin projections
c=0.0,0.0,0.0:l=0
c=0.0,0.0,0.0:l=0
c=0.0,0.5,0.5:l=0
c=0.0,0.5,0.5:l=0
end projections
but the results are even worse (not converged).
However, I am conscious that putting an s orbital (l=0) in the center of mass of the molecules as a starting guess does not make much sense.
Probably I have still some parameter in my calculations that is still not at convergence. Which are the ones most influencing the wannierization?
Is there a possibility to run a wannierization by starting from the solution found in a previous calculation? I am asking this also because in different calculations, the labels of the different WFs (1, 2, 3,...) mix up.
If you need more informations I will provide them!
Thank you in advance,
Carlo
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Carlo Motta,
PostDoc Researcher
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