Re: [Wien] Wannier

2024-04-10 Thread pluto via Wien
Institut of Physics Johannes Gutenberg - University 55099 Mainz Von: Wien [wien-boun...@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von pluto via Wien [wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. April 2024 16:41 An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users C

Re: [Wien] Wannier

2024-04-09 Thread pluto via Wien
wavefunctions, but the "renormalized" partial DOS. (This will omitt the interstital and renormalize in particular the delocalized orbitals). It does NOT include  phases (interference), but our experience is quite good - although limited. Check out the PES section in the UG and th

Re: [Wien] How to assign kz to slab bands?

2024-02-25 Thread pluto via Wien
a supercell in z direction without vacuum and still use the eigenvectors from the supercell+vacuum calculation, but it may give complete nonsense. Best regards Peter Blaha Am 23.02.2024 um 17:02 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, Everyone who has done a slab calculation knows that it contains some

[Wien] How to assign kz to slab bands?

2024-02-23 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, Everyone who has done a slab calculation knows that it contains some surface states and some projected bulk bands. These projected bulk bands are typically nearly identical to the bulk projected bands. If we have a 10ML slab, they will essentially look like cutting the bulk BZ 10

Re: [Wien] Wannier

2024-02-16 Thread pluto via Wien
, but our experience is quite good - although limited. Check out the PES section in the UG and the corresponding paper by Bagheri Regards Am 15.02.2024 um 01:41 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I am interested to project WIEN2k band structure onto atomic orbitals, but getting complex amplitude

[Wien] Wannier

2024-02-14 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am interested to project WIEN2k band structure onto atomic orbitals, but getting complex amplitudes. For example, for graphene Dirac band (formed primarily by C 2pz) I would get two k-dependent complex numbers A_C2pz(k) and B_C2pz(k), where A and B are the two inequivalent sites,

[Wien] Atomic muffin tin potential output

2024-01-13 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, An electron scattering program I am testing can take atomic muffin-tin potential as an input. Is there a convenient way to output such muffin tin potentials from WIEN2k? If not, then I would appreciate if you could advise on how to generate such muffin tin potentials

Re: [Wien] Speed of cluster nodes

2023-11-14 Thread pluto via Wien
ems. Try to check it by logging into this node and use eg. "top". Am 10.11.2023 um 18:53 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Prof. Blaha, dear All, Thank you for you comment. When changing numbers as you suggested the convergence over few cycles didn't look very good. So I decided to redo the c

[Wien] Speed of cluster nodes

2023-11-10 Thread pluto via Wien
accurate. You need to run the scf, but it should converge quicker . Am 07.11.2023 um 18:26 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I have a larger FM-SOC calculation converged (and saved) with the default Ecut. I would like to converge with smaller Ecut (say 1 Ry), to have the output files smaller

[Wien] Re-converge with smaller Ecut

2023-11-07 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I have a larger FM-SOC calculation converged (and saved) with the default Ecut. I would like to converge with smaller Ecut (say 1 Ry), to have the output files smaller. Is there a good way to do this, using the converged one as a starting point, to avoid the lenghty convergence?

Re: [Wien] ** testerror: Error in Parallel LAPW

2023-06-21 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear Miro, On my cluster it works by a command salloc -p cluster_name -N6 sleep infinity & This particular command allocates 6 nodes. You can find which ones by squeue command. Then passworless to these nodes is allowed in my cluster. Then in .machines I include the names of these nodes and

Re: [Wien] ** testerror: Error in Parallel LAPW

2023-06-20 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear Miro, It is hard to give your a meaningful answer with little info, but I will try my best guess because I needed to set this up recently. I assume that you want to use k-parallel and you don't have mpi. With a serial job you automatically run on a single node. Single node is a

Re: [Wien] Strategy for a large slab with SP and SOC

2023-06-19 Thread pluto via Wien
n at the beginning, maybe with -ecut 0.999 . PS: I would NOT include HDLOs, if I had ghostbands. Mixing with PRATT helps only in very few cases, not really recommended for "normal" calculations. PPS: I hope you use runsp_c_lapw for something like WTe2 ? Am 17.06.2023 um 00:28 schr

Re: [Wien] Strategy for a large slab with SP and SOC

2023-06-16 Thread pluto via Wien
2023 um 10:44 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I just would like to confirm the step-by-step convergence strategy for the large slab with SP and SOC (it refers in general to spin-momentum locked non-magnetic TMDC, but can be any other material). Is the following correct: 1. Converge

[Wien] Strategy for a large slab with SP and SOC

2023-06-16 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I just would like to confirm the step-by-step convergence strategy for the large slab with SP and SOC (it refers in general to spin-momentum locked non-magnetic TMDC, but can be any other material). Is the following correct: 1. Converge without SP and without SOC, and save_lapw

Re: [Wien] lapw1 vs lapwso speed

2023-06-16 Thread pluto via Wien
n1, which limits the number of eigenvalues calculated in lapw1 and used as basis for lapwso. With EMAX=5.0 the speed of lapw1 and lapwso is usually similar. With larger emax lapwso may take much more time. Am 11.06.2023 um 12:36 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All,

[Wien] lapw1 vs lapwso speed

2023-06-11 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, When calculating bands for a large slab I have following sequence: Sun May 14 12:33:03 PM CEST 2023> (x) lapw1 -band -up -p Sun May 14 02:25:26 PM CEST 2023> (x) lapw1 -band -dn -p Sun May 14 04:17:22 PM CEST 2023> (x) lapwso -up -p Mon May 15 01:30:05 AM CEST 2023> (x) qtl -up -p

Re: [Wien] shell script issue

2023-06-02 Thread pluto via Wien
o /bin/csh -f or /bin/tcsh -f and see what happens. Am 20.04.2023 um 12:19 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I would like to calculate the sequence of programs to get the band characters under bash: calculate_bands.sh #! /bin/bash x lapw1 -band -up -p x lapw1 -band -dn -p x lapwso -up -p x

[Wien] almblm and radwf files

2023-06-01 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, Below I paste first lines of almblm and radwf files (these particular files for WSe2 as an example). Both files consists 5 double columns. For almblm file each double column is the real and complex part of the wave function coefficient. For radwf file odd columns are radial wave

[Wien] shell script issue

2023-04-20 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I would like to calculate the sequence of programs to get the band characters under bash: calculate_bands.sh #! /bin/bash x lapw1 -band -up -p x lapw1 -band -dn -p x lapwso -up -p x qtl -band -so -p -up x qtl -band -so -p -dn I run this from the terminal under Rocky Linux using

[Wien] w2web fat band plortting does not work with limited energy range in case.inq

2023-03-26 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, To limit the size of the case.qtl I often limit the energy range and the printed atoms in case.inq. For example, out of many atoms I only use 2 atoms, and I set the -1 to 1 range: -1.0 1.0 Emin Emax 2 number of atoms 3 1 0 1

Re: [Wien] Limit the energy range for QTL band character calculation

2023-03-20 Thread pluto via Wien
in case.inq, but this is not what I am talking about here. Best, Lukasz On 2023-03-20 23:24, pluto via Wien wrote: Dear All, I am trying to limit the energy range of k-point calculations to speed up the band structure calculations for a large slab. For this reason I modified the last line

[Wien] Limit the energy range for QTL band character calculation

2023-03-20 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am trying to limit the energy range of k-point calculations to speed up the band structure calculations for a large slab. For this reason I modified the last line in case.in1 into: K-VECTORS FROM UNIT:4 -1.0 1.0 500 emin / de (emax=Ef+de) / nband Then I tried to run

Re: [Wien] case.almblm along used-defined quantization axis

2023-03-19 Thread pluto via Wien
. Am 18.03.2023 um 22:15 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I am again coming back to the Ylm band characters etc... This command x lapw2 -up -so -alm -qtl -band produces case.almblm file. I am guessing that here the quantization axis (i.e. the direction of pz and dz2, the z-axis) is oriented

[Wien] case.almblm along used-defined quantization axis

2023-03-18 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am again coming back to the Ylm band characters etc... This command x lapw2 -up -so -alm -qtl -band produces case.almblm file. I am guessing that here the quantization axis (i.e. the direction of pz and dz2, the z-axis) is oriented along the axis defined by the

[Wien] i7-13700K benchmarks

2023-03-15 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, This might be useful for anyone who is building a Linux PC system. I have some more insight into the speed using i7-13700K, which is the current 13th gen Intel CPU. I have Z690-P D4 Asus board and either 128 GB (4x32) or 64 GB (2x32) Kingston FURY RAM DD4-3600 CL18-22-22 (I can

Re: [Wien] Difference between "x lapw2 -qtl" and "x qtl"

2023-03-15 Thread pluto via Wien
th (100) does not break more symmetry ??? Am 15.03.2023 um 01:32 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I am calculating one of the 1T TMDC materials. This material e.g. has a spin-polarized Dirac cone on the surface (see e.g. DOI 10.1088/2516-1075/ab09b7 for review of similar materials). I calcu

[Wien] Difference between "x lapw2 -qtl" and "x qtl"

2023-03-14 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am calculating one of the 1T TMDC materials. This material e.g. has a spin-polarized Dirac cone on the surface (see e.g. DOI 10.1088/2516-1075/ab09b7 for review of similar materials). I calculated 10L (15 inequivalent atoms) and 20L (30 inequivalent atoms) slabs. I allowed

Re: [Wien] Parallel execution on new Intel CPUs

2023-02-22 Thread pluto via Wien
xing_For_Dummies.pdf On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 5:18 PM pluto via Wien wrote: Dear Prof. Blaha, Thank you for comments. At the moment I have 56 k-points in a big slab of one of the ternary magnetic 2D materials. Perhaps I can reduce k-points, something to test. Also now I see that my 56 k-points a

Re: [Wien] Energy of 4f levels in paramagnetic bands

2023-02-20 Thread pluto via Wien
Is there a way to artificially shift the 4s level somewhere? Of course I meant the 4f level. Sorry for the typo. Lukasz On 2023-02-20 12:19, pluto via Wien wrote: Dear All, I am calculating one of the Kagome materials. It includes a 4f element. I need non-magnetic bands, because my

[Wien] Energy of 4f levels in paramagnetic bands

2023-02-20 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am calculating one of the Kagome materials. It includes a 4f element. I need non-magnetic bands, because my experiments are made above the magnetic transition temperature. People typically use U around 6 eV on the 4f level for this material. I know that paramagnetic phase of

[Wien] Slab convergence

2023-02-20 Thread pluto via Wien
re see http://www.numis.northwestern.edu/Presentations/DFT_Mixing_For_Dummies.pdf On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 5:18 PM pluto via Wien wrote: Dear Prof. Blaha, Thank you for comments. At the moment I have 56 k-points in a big slab of one of the ternary magnetic 2D materials. Perhaps I can reduce k-points, some

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-02-16 Thread pluto via Wien
erator ?) multiplied with the "step-function". Such detaisl are well explained in D. Singh's book... Am 12.02.2023 um 20:10 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Prof. Blaha, Thank you for your comments. Are the functions u and u-dot provided in some output file? Manual mentions different type

[Wien] Definition of directions in QTL band character calculations

2023-02-14 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am interested in calculating different types of orbital characters. When calculating a TMDC of 1T type (space group 164) I experience the following: (A). When using regular commands (x lapw2 -band -qtl -up/dn -so) I am having x swapped with z. Perhaps also other things happen,

Re: [Wien] Parallel execution on new Intel CPUs

2023-02-14 Thread pluto via Wien
ance to speed-up things. Again, I do not know what 16 mpi-jobs do, if 8 cores are fast and 8 are slow ? Am 14.02.2023 um 11:32 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Profs. Blaha, Marks, Thank you for the information! Could you give an estimate what could be a possible speed-up when I use mpi parall

Re: [Wien] Parallel execution on new Intel CPUs

2023-02-14 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear Profs. Blaha, Marks, Thank you for the information! Could you give an estimate what could be a possible speed-up when I use mpi parallelization? My tests on 36-inequivalent-atom slab so far indicate that there is nearly no difference between different k-parallel and OMP settings. So

[Wien] Parallel execution on new Intel CPUs

2023-02-12 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am now using a machine with i7-13700K. This CPU has 8 performance cores (P-cores) and 8 efficient cores (E-cores). In addition each P-core has 2 threads, so there is 24 threads alltogether. It is hard to find some reasonable info online, but probably a P-core is approx. 2x faster

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-02-12 Thread pluto via Wien
ontribution. c) I'm not the real expert of Wannier functions, but I guess the WF might be complicated linear combinations of different l,m Am 09.02.2023 um 15:46 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Sylwia, dear Prof. Blaha, dear All, Having these A_lm, B_lm etc is of course a problem if on

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-02-09 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear Sylwia, dear Prof. Blaha, dear All, Having these A_lm, B_lm etc is of course a problem if one wants to estimate interferences in dipole optical matrix element due to phases at which different Y_lm orbitals enter the wave function. It would be good to have a single complex number per

[Wien] qtl printed output issue

2023-02-03 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, When running "x qtl" I am getting an error message printed in Wien 23.1 edition, see below. I tested this in couple of different test cases, with and without FM and SOC, always the same error. It seems this error message does not affect anything. The case.qtl file is created, and

Re: [Wien] run_lapw

2023-02-01 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear Prof. Blaha, I understand it is enough to simply replace the existing run_lapw file? Or does one need to recompile everything? Best, Lukasz On 2023-02-01 12:43, Peter Blaha wrote: Only 23. Am 01.02.2023 um 12:09 schrieb Laurence Marks: Which version(s) of Wien2k does this effect?

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-01-17 Thread pluto via Wien
ile. optical matrix elements: They are calculated anyway in optics. Regards Am 16.01.2023 um 17:13 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Prof Blaha, dear All, I think QTL provides squared wave function coefficients, which are real numbers. Can we get the complex coefficients, before squaring? The phase

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-01-16 Thread pluto via Wien
x lapw2 -alm), which would write the A_lm, B_lm, as well as the radial wf. into a file. optical matrix elements: They are calculated anyway in optics. Regards Am 16.01.2023 um 17:13 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear Prof Blaha, dear All, I think QTL provides squared wave function coefficients

Re: [Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2023-01-16 Thread pluto via Wien
egards Peter Blaha Am 22.12.2022 um 17:52 schrieb pluto via Wien: Dear All, I would like to calculate orbital projections for the Y_lm basis (spherical harmonics) along some generic quantization axis using QTL program. Below I paste an exanple case.inq input file from the manual (page 206).

[Wien] QTL quantization axis for Y_lm orbitals

2022-12-22 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I would like to calculate orbital projections for the Y_lm basis (spherical harmonics) along some generic quantization axis using QTL program. Below I paste an exanple case.inq input file from the manual (page 206). When "loro" is set to 1 one can set a "new axis z". Is that

[Wien] budget CPU and Linux system for precompiled binaries

2022-12-16 Thread pluto via Wien
Dear All, I am considering to build a simple Linux PC for WIEN2k, price range between ca. 500-2000 EUR. It would be used to run band-structure calculations. I will run precompiled WIEN2k executables on this. Is there a preferred CPU and Linux system that would ensure good compatibility? I