[Wannier] Wannier90 and quantum espresso and spin orbit coupling

H. Lee hjunlee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 07:55:06 CEST 2019


Dear Marten Richter:

Preconditioning in Wannier90 just filters the components in the gradient
due to the large lattice vectors and it does not always improve
convergence; in some cases, it worsens the convergence.

I want to know the final spreads of all Wannier functions (WFs) for the
cases of (1) precond=T and (2) precond=F. (in your case, the 14th WF still
has the large spread of 7.8)

Additionally, could you upload amn and mmn files?

Sincerely,

Hyungjun Lee

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:38 PM Marten Richter <marten.richter at tu-berlin.de>
wrote:

> Dear Marco,
> I have found a solution.
> Besides the missing guiding_centres = .true., I have now set precond =
> false .
> This seems to have caused the problems, I am wondering why it affected
> only one spin or was this a coincidence?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marten
>
> Am 22.08.19 um 15:27 schrieb Marten Richter:
>
> Dear Marco,
> I have now rerun the calculation with guiding_centres = .true. .
> Here is the wout https://gigamove.rz.rwth-aachen.de/d/id/VU8FWXMMrYgyS9
> for download.
> The spread is much smaller, however it seems as if the algorithm is
> restarting since the spread went up several times.
> The band along the kpath does look ok, even though the conduction band SO
> splitting seems to be too small.
> Using an interpolation from my code I still get distortions (see surface
> plot) at singular points.
> Is it possible, that single points from the underlying DFT are broken? I
> have compared my input files cutoff energy and it is smaller than yours,
> can this be the problem?
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Marten
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> ****
> 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
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 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)
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>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> 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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> Institut für Theoretische Physik
> Technische Universität Berlin
> Hardenbergstr. 36 Sekr. EW 7-1
> D-10623 Berlin
> Germany
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> email: marten.richter at tu-berlin.de
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> Technische Universität Berlin
> Hardenbergstr. 36 Sekr. EW 7-1
> D-10623 Berlin
> Germany
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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