[Wannier] Wannier90 and quantum espresso and spin orbit coupling

Marten Richter marten.richter at tu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 21 11:39:01 CEST 2019


Dear Marco,
thank you very much for the help.
I have just started the calculation with guiding_centres = .true. and I 
have already after 32 iterations a spread of 447 compared to a spread of 
2684. after more than 3500 iterations guiding_centres = .false. .
I will report back about the final result, but I think this was the problem.

Thanks,

Marten

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Am 21.08.19 um 10:39 schrieb Gibertini Marco:
> Dear Marten,
>
> I did almost identical calculations few years back (see PRB 90, 245411 
> (2014) 
> <https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.245411>) 
> without any issue.
> Since I still have all data from Quantum ESPRESSO (.mmn, .amn, .eig, 
> .spn), I tried to perform again the wannierization and interpolation 
> using the most recent version of Wannier90 to check that no bug was 
> introduced in the meantime.
>
> I got exactly the same results as in 2014, so I would rule out 
> problems with Wannier90.
>
> The issue might then arise from pw2wannier90 (that I haven't checked 
> yet) or from your inputs.
> In this respect, a crucial difference I see with respect to my input 
> (which is otherwise almost identical to yours, apart that I use a 
> 12x12x1 k-grid) is that you don't use guiding_centres = .true.
> For 2D materials centred in the middle of the unit cell along the 
> vertical direction (as in your case) the wannierization can go nuts 
> with guiding_centres = .false. (which is the default value). Have you 
> checked that the spreads look reasonable? Can you send me the .wout?
>
> Please, try to see if guiding_centres = .true. solves your problems. 
> If not, we'll investigate further.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Marco
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> Marco Gibertini
> ****************************************
> Post-doctoral Research Scientist
> Theory and Simulation of Materials
> École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
>
>
>
> On 8/20/19 11:47 AM, Marten Richter wrote:
>>
>> Dear Wannier90 experts,
>>
>> I am relatively new to Wannier90 and also Quantum Espresso, but I 
>> need for development some example file for monolayer MoS2 including 
>> Spin Orbit coupling.
>> I will use the files generated by Wannier90 to interpolate the 
>> bandstructure and TB coefficients to a 1024x1024 grid using a custom 
>> code (needs to be 2^n points).
>>
>> I used files from www.materialscloud.org as basis for the calculation 
>> I only replaced the pseudo potentials with relativistic potentials 
>> and I increased the cutoff energy, since I get otherwise non positive 
>> S in quantum espresso.
>>
>> My problem is, that one Spin component behaves fine and the other one 
>> shows strong oscillations around the gamma point. (visible the 
>> bandstructure plotted by my code, but also in the wannier post 
>> processing plot, both attached). It gets better for more iterations, 
>> but what is the reason  for the poor convergence.
>>
>> I hope, this is the right list, since it might be also a problem with 
>> quantum espresso, but I did not want to cross post.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Marten Richter
>>
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>> Dr. Marten Richter
>> Institut für Theoretische Physik
>> Technische Universität Berlin
>> Hardenbergstr. 36 Sekr. EW 7-1
>> D-10623 Berlin
>> Germany
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> email:marten.richter at tu-berlin.de
>> Tel: +49-30-314-24858 (office)
>> Fax: +49-30-314-21130
>> http://www.itp.TU-Berlin.DE/knorr/
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> File for scf calculation
>>
>> &CONTROL
>>    calculation = 'scf'
>>    outdir = './'
>>    prefix = 'mos2'
>>    pseudo_dir = './'
>>
>>    restart_mode = 'from_scratch'
>>    verbosity = 'high'
>> /
>> &SYSTEM
>>    degauss =   2.0000000000d-02
>>    ecutrho =   3.0000000000d+02
>>    ecutwfc =   4.375000000000d+01
>> !  ecutrho =   2.4000000000d+02
>> !  ecutwfc =   3.5000000000d+01
>> !!  ecutrho =   4.8000000000d+02
>> !!  ecutwfc =   7.0000000000d+01
>>    assume_isolated = '2D'
>>    ibrav = 0
>>    nat = 3
>>    ntyp = 2
>>    occupations = 'smearing'
>>    smearing = 'cold'
>>    noncolin = .true.
>>    lspinorb = .true.
>> /
>> &ELECTRONS
>>    conv_thr =   3.0000000000d-09
>>
>>    diago_full_acc = .true.
>>    diagonalization = 'cg'
>>    electron_maxstep = 100
>> /
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>> Mo     95.94 Mo.rel-pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> S      32.066 S.rel-pbe-nl-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom
>> Mo           0.0000000000       1.8406963043      11.5773510440
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      10.0188259936
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      13.1358760945
>> K_POINTS crystal
>> 625
>>    0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.600000e-03
>> 	should represent a 25x25 grid, cut out here
>>
>>
>>
>> CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
>>        3.1881795204       0.0000000000       0.0000000000
>>       -1.5940897602       2.7610444565       0.0000000000
>>        0.0000000000       0.0000000000      23.1547020881
>>
>> File for nscf calculation
>>
>>
>> &CONTROL
>>    calculation = 'bands'
>>    outdir = './'
>>    prefix = 'mos2'
>>    pseudo_dir = './'
>>    restart_mode = 'restart'
>>    verbosity = 'high'
>> /
>> &SYSTEM
>>    degauss =   2.0000000000d-02
>>
>>
>>    ecutrho =   3.0000000000d+02
>>    ecutwfc =   4.375000000000d+01
>> !  ecutrho =   2.4000000000d+02
>> !  ecutwfc =   3.5000000000d+01
>> !!  ecutrho =   4.8000000000d+02
>> !!  ecutwfc =   7.0000000000d+01
>>    ibrav = 0
>>    assume_isolated = '2D'
>>    nat = 3
>>    ntyp = 2
>>    occupations = 'smearing'
>>    smearing = 'cold'
>>    noncolin = .true.
>>    lspinorb = .true.
>> /
>>
>> &ELECTRONS
>>    conv_thr =   3.0000000000d-09
>>    diago_full_acc = .true.
>>    diagonalization = 'cg'
>>
>>
>>    electron_maxstep = 100
>> /
>> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>> Mo     95.94 Mo.rel-pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> S      32.066 S.rel-pbe-nl-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF
>> ATOMIC_POSITIONS angstrom
>> Mo           0.0000000000       1.8406963043      11.5773510440
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      10.0188259936
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      13.1358760945
>> K_POINTS crystal
>> 625
>>    0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000  1.600000e-03
>> Rest cut out here
>>
>> CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
>>        3.1881795204       0.0000000000       0.0000000000
>>       -1.5940897602       2.7610444565       0.0000000000
>>        0.0000000000       0.0000000000
>>   23.1547020881
>>
>> File for wannier90 input
>>
>> &inputpp
>>      outdir = './'
>>      prefix = 'mos2'
>>      seedname = 'mos2'
>>      spin_component = 'none'
>>      write_mmn = .true.
>>      write_amn = .true.
>>      write_unk = .false.
>>
>>      write_dmn = .false.
>>      write_spn = .true.
>>      read_sym = .false.
>>      wan_mode = 'standalone'
>> /
>>
>> File for wannier90 input
>>
>> bands_plot = true
>> #restart = plot
>> write_hr = true
>> write_rmn = true
>> write_bvec = true
>> write_u_matrices = true
>> spinors = true
>> spin_decomp = true
>> kpath = true
>> kpath_task = bands
>> kpath_bands_colour = spin
>>
>>
>> num_wann        = 22
>> num_iter        = 3600
>> num_bands	= 22
>> exclude_bands = 1-12
>>
>>
>> wannier_plot=.false.
>> wannier_plot_supercell = 3
>>
>> precond = true
>> trial_step = 1.0
>>
>> begin atoms_frac
>> Mo           0.0000000000       1.8406963043      11.5773510440
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      10.0188259936
>> S            1.5940897602       0.9203481522      13.1358760945
>> end atoms_frac
>>
>>
>> begin projections
>> Mo:dxy;dyz;dxz;dx2-y2;dz2
>> S:px;py;pz
>> end projections
>>
>>
>> begin kpoint_path
>> G 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  M 0.50000 0.0000 0.0000000
>> M 0.500000  0.000000  0.000000  K 0.666666 -0.333333 0.0000000
>> K 0.666666   -0.333333   0.000000  KP 0.333333 -0.666666   0.000000
>> KP 0.333333 -0.666666   0.000000  G 0.00000 0.0000 0.0000000
>> end kpoint_path
>>
>>
>> begin unit_cell_cart
>> 3.1881795204       0.0000000000       0.0000000000
>> -1.5940897602       2.7610444565       0.0000000000
>> 0.0000000000       0.0000000000      23.1547020881
>> end unit_cell_cart
>>
>> mp_grid : 25 25 1
>>
>> begin kpoints
>>    0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000
>>    0.00000000  0.04000000  0.00000000
>>    snip should be the same 25x25 grid
>> end kpoints
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>
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Dr. Marten Richter
Institut für Theoretische Physik
Technische Universität Berlin
Hardenbergstr. 36 Sekr. EW 7-1
D-10623 Berlin
Germany
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