Re: [Pw_forum] Converged SCF total energies different in 6.0/6.1/6.2

2017-12-22 Thread WF
ect to previous results and other XC implementations (r13592) > >More explicitly: some constants that previously were truncated to 6 digits, are now defined with full precision. This removes minor numerical discrepancies with the results obtained using libxc. > >Paolo >On Th

[Pw_forum] Converged SCF total energies different in 6.0/6.1/6.2

2017-12-20 Thread WF
Dear all, In tests a normal DFT calculations with Si, I noticed that QE 6.0 and 6.1 gives exactly same total energy with 6.0 and 6.1 (-15.75190880 Ry), but with QE 6.2.1, the total energy is -15.75191309Ry. I tested this on two different machines with different compilers, the results are the same

Re: [Pw_forum] Band parallelization of EXX ACE in QE 6.1

2017-07-19 Thread WF
Thanks, this is a small case (16 Silicon) with ONCV pseudo potential. Run with 16 processors per node and 4 nodes (64 procs in total), with nb=1,2,4,8 the results are all the same, and the ACE energies in the output file are ACE energy-9.83550603 ACE energy-9.85593641 ACE

[Pw_forum] Band parallelization of EXX ACE in QE 6.1

2017-07-17 Thread WF
Dear everyone, I am trying the new EXX-ACE in QE6.1 on a system consists of 215 atoms, and 933 electrons of spin up and 932 down, gamma point only. When no parallelization level is specified in the command line, it runs well. With -nb 2, it runs much faster with the same result. But with

[Pw_forum] ld1.x produce different test results between iswitch=2/3

2014-07-31 Thread WF
which may sometimes >badly fail >P. >On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 19:52 +0200, WF wrote: >> Dear everyone, >>I am trying to produce a norm-conserving pp of Cu with 3s and 3p >> included. Regardless of the quality of the pp, I met some problems in the >>

[Pw_forum] ld1.x produce different test results between iswitch=2/3

2014-07-29 Thread WF
Dear everyone, I am trying to produce a norm-conserving pp of Cu with 3s and 3p included. Regardless of the quality of the pp, I met some problems in the consistency of tests. The input file is atom="Cu" dft="PBE" config="[Ar] 3d10 4s1 4p0" iswitch=3 rlderiv=2.90 eminld=-4.0

[Pw_forum] SCF Convergence problem in all-electron calculation of ld1.x

2012-01-12 Thread WF
Dear everyone, I would like to verify the validity of a norm-conserving pp of carbon by use some different configurations as what documentation says. However, I cannot complete all-electron calculation of C with configuration "[He] 2s2 2p3", in which ld1.x shows "warning: convergence not

[Pw_forum] How to test pseudo potential for non-metallic element?

2012-01-01 Thread WF
Thanks for your advices and I will try it later. Happy New Year! >You can just combine them with other known to work pseudopotentials and check a variety of compounds, e.g. H2O/H2S molecules/cluster, metal/semiconductor oxides. >Cheers, > axel. >Dear Wu, >To check the transferability it's

[Pw_forum] How to test pseudo potential for non-metallic element?

2011-12-31 Thread WF
Dear everyone, I tried to create pseudo potential for O and S ( for some uncommon functional ) for later oxides calculation. Before used in the final model, it should be checked. However, for a metallic element, it is easy to create a model with its stable elementary substance and

[Pw_forum] How to achieve the convergence of Ecutrho?

2011-12-13 Thread WF
>Dear all, > >I've asked sevral people about the convergence criteria of Ecutrho test. They point out that the convergence will be achieved when the difference between two adjacent scf calculation is smaller than 0.1 meV. However, they are not very sure about the step length. From my view, the

[Pw_forum] A minor mistype in INPUT_PW doc?

2011-12-07 Thread WF
Dear QE developers, Today I find a word seems mistyped in Doc/INPUT_PW.html and INPUT_PW.txt in the k-points description part. Syntax: K_POINTS tpiba | crystal | tbiba_b | crystal_b Is the "tbiba_b" should be tpiba_b as used elsewhere? Thanks.

[Pw_forum] band structure for a 72 C atom supercell

2011-12-04 Thread WF
> Dear Wu, > Thanks for your reply. Is there any other executable that does this?what about Gnuplot? does it follow the same procedure or is different? > Thanks again > Elie The band information can be found in the stdout of pw.x in text. Any graph tool include gnuplot and xmgrace should be OK to

[Pw_forum] band structure for a 72 C atom supercell

2011-12-04 Thread WF
At Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:53:03 +, Elie M writes: >Dear all, >I computed the electronic band structure of a 72 Carbon atom supercell but the result shows a lot of wiggles in the ? energies? Do I have to use more points or might it be due to something else? >You will find the ps plot attached

[Pw_forum] Does total force include dispersion force?

2011-11-24 Thread WF
Hello everyone, I am doing a vc-relax calculation with PBE+D ( with .london. = true and PBE functional). In the output, an additional part called "Dispersion forces acting on atoms" is displayed after "Total forces acting on atoms" after each BFGS cycle. Do the values in total force part

[Pw_forum] What kind of calculation needs wavefunction files created by pw.x ?

2011-11-15 Thread WF
> Actually, wavefunctions are not needed for DOS calculations, but they are for projected-DOS ones. For calculations with bands.x, you will need wavefunctions only in conjunction with the lsym=.TRUE. option. Other standard calculations that require wavefunctions are, for instance, LDOS (and STM

[Pw_forum] What kind of calculation needs wavefunction files created by pw.x ?

2011-11-14 Thread WF
Hello everyone, From what I haved learned, pw.x generates wavefunction files under temporary directory, and can be collected to output directory by options wf_collect = .true. . It can be controlled by disk_io option to decrease the I/O. However I don't really know whether should I keep

[Pw_forum] How to show bands above fermi level in PDOS?

2011-11-05 Thread WF
Hello everyone, I am calculating PDOS of an insulator. In the initial SCF, keyword 'nbnd' is not specified. A NSCF calculation, still without 'nbnd' keyword, is done to get Fermi level. And in the later PDOS calculation, no band above Fermi level is showed. If I need to show some bands

[Pw_forum] c_bands: X eigenvalues not converged

2011-10-30 Thread WF
Hello everyone, I am running a bands calculation based on a scf calculation already done without problem. But after several days the output keeps prompting "c_bands: X eigenvalues not converged", where X = 3~8, and there are already approximately 300 lines of such messages. Is it just

[Pw_forum] Problem of the energy of orbital in ld1.x with

2011-09-27 Thread WF
On Sep 26, 2011, at 8:30, Paolo Giannozzi wrote: > energy = 0.00 => "use energy of the bound state" > energy /=0.00 => "use specified energy for pseudization" > It is clumsy and unclear but it was done that way and now it cannot > be changed > without breaking existing data. Anyway, it is

[Pw_forum] Problem of the energy of orbital in ld1.x with

2011-09-26 Thread WF
Thanks for your advices. How can I get bound 5P states ? In my opinion a state has energy lower than 0 is bound, but regardless what the 5P energy in ld1.x input file is ( I test the range from -0.1 to 1.50 ), no 5P orbital is found in PDOS calculation, which only appear when 5P energy is set to

[Pw_forum] Problem of the energy of orbital in ld1.x with PDOS

2011-09-25 Thread WF
ind both of the fhi file and parameters. > > >-- >GAO Zhe >CMC Lab, MSE, SNU, Seoul, S.Korea > > > > >At 2011-09-24 17:45:49,WF wrote: >>Hello everyone, >> I recently do a vc-relax calculation of Ru metal of PBE >>norm-cons

[Pw_forum] Problem of the energy of orbital in ld1.x with PDOS

2011-09-24 Thread WF
Hello everyone, I recently do a vc-relax calculation of Ru metal of PBE norm-conserving PP. The PP input is like this, which is slightly modified from that in atomic_doc: -- title='Ru', zed=44.0, rel=1, config='[Kr]

[Pw_forum] Error: fft order too large

2011-09-15 Thread WF
Hello everyone, I am calculating a surface slab model of MoS2. My parameter works well with 5~11 layers. But with 13 layers ( 39 atoms total ), it gives %% from good_fft_order : error # 2241

[Pw_forum] problems with vc-relax

2011-09-09 Thread WF
Is it good enough to relax an arbitrary system with only gamma k-points? I thought it is necessary to do some test with k-points as this effect change from system to system. In my experience, more k-points is necessary for a metal-like system, i.e. graphene. Best regards, Wu, F > Date: Thu, 8

[Pw_forum] Is it necessary to clear outdir / wfcdir before calculation?

2011-09-08 Thread WF
Thanks for your advices, I will remove the output if it is not necessary. I am sorry that I don't notice that the title contains a newline mark of which only the first line is copied in my message sent, so it doesn't work properly, i.e. no previous message or affiliation. Best regards, Wu F

[Pw_forum] Is it necessary to clear outdir / wfcdir

2011-09-08 Thread WF
In my calculation restart_mode="from_scratch" is always used. But I find if a calculation ends with error, it will give different errors depends on the whether the outdir is empty or not. So I wonder whether it affect the calculation results.

[Pw_forum] Is it necessary to clear outdir / wfcdir before calculation?

2011-09-08 Thread WF
Hello everyone, Recently I make a small bash script to run a lot of small pw.x calculation one by one. But all of them use same outdir and wfcdir. They are temporary directories and I don't need them ( I only need scf energy, so stdout is enough ). Is it necessary to delete

[Pw_forum] Problem with Bi2Se3 SCF converge

2011-09-03 Thread WF
Dear Mohnish: Thanks for our advices. I tried beta = 0.1 and 0.2, and those message is postponed to 100+ iteration, but the convergence still cannot be achieved. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:45 AM, mohnish pandey wrote: > Try reducing "beta" >On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:

[Pw_forum] vdW functional in Quantum-Espresso

2011-08-24 Thread WF
There are large changes in vdW functional part between version 4.3 and 4.3.1 or later. First, the vdW functional is put in GGA correlation part in funct.f90 in 4.3, but in an independent part (non-local part) in funct.f90 in 4.3.1. Second, the ld1.x refuse to generate pseudo-potential for