Re: [Pw_forum] Determining the value of emaxpos and eopreg

2017-12-28 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, Thank for the description on how to select the values of emaxpos and eporeg, Is it possible to apply an electric field in the direction other than z, where there is no vacuum, and if so what would be the process of selecting the value of emaxpos and eporeg? As an example: a graphene

[Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system

2018-01-08 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, Is it possible to use the sawtooth method as I require smearing for applying electric field parallel to a system? I do understand the parameter edir can be used to specify the direction, but it also specifies the direction of vacuum. I mean, I have a vacuum along the z-direction

Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system

2018-01-08 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
<thomas.bru...@uni-leipzig.de> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 3:33 PM To: PWSCF Forum; Mohammed Ghadiyali Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system Dear Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader, applying the electric field parallel to the system, thus placing the potential

Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system

2018-01-08 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
<thomas.bru...@uni-leipzig.de> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:00 PM To: Mohammed Ghadiyali; PWSCF Forum Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system Dear Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader, there was no input file attached to your mail. Anyway... The electric field via "t

Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system

2018-01-08 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
. From: Thomas Brumme <thomas.bru...@uni-leipzig.de> Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:43 PM To: Mohammed Ghadiyali; PWSCF Forum Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system Dear Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader, the paper by Meyer and Vanderbilt is fine - no use to read t

Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system

2018-01-08 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
uary 8, 2018 6:26 PM To: Mohammed Ghadiyali; PWSCF Forum Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Applying sawtooth filed parallel to a system Dear Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader, the paper by Meyer and Vanderbilt does include a discussion about the "dipole correction". The whole story (why a dipole corr

[Pw_forum] "Segmentation fault" Error in KDOS

2018-01-29 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am having following error: Program received signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference. Backtrace for this error: #0 0x2B6D7C4446F7 #1 0x2B6D7C444D3E #2 0x2B6D7D31826F #3 0x41CEF1 in atomic_wfc_nc_proj_ at atomic_wfc_nc_proj.f90:113 #4 0x4157FE in

[Pw_forum] CUDA Support.

2016-01-21 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi All, I have few questions regarding CUDA support of Quantum ESPRESSO, as we are planning to procure a server. And one of the configurations we are looking into has dual Intel Xeon cpu's and four nvidia's graphic cards, similar to this:http://www.thinkmate.com/system/gpx-xt4-2160v3-titan 1.

[Pw_forum] Quantum ESPRESSO Support on gaming cards and on Xeon Phi Co-processor

2016-01-22 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi All, I have few questions regarding CUDA support of Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), as we are planning to procure a server. And one of the configurations we are looking into has dual Intel Xeon cpu's and four nvidia's graphic cards, similar to this:http://www.thinkmate.com/system/gpx-xt4-2160v3-titan

[Pw_forum] Differences in the QE Inputs when generated form .CIF, .XYZ and cif2input script.

2016-05-04 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I interested in looking in the properties of the Helium 3, so for the same reason I am using the .CIF files for the creation of the input file via Virtual Nano Lab (Free version for the academic users). The problem is it giving me very different QE inputs .i.e. if I use the .CIF file

[Pw_forum] SOC calculation/s for Topological Insulator.

2016-05-19 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am a research scholar at dept. of Physics, University of Mumbai. I am currently interested to work on the Topological insulator materials and for the same I require to perform DFT calculations with spin orbital coupling (SOC). only thing I found in the pw.x manual was of including

[Pw_forum] Error while running excises

2014-10-01 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hello, I 'm currently tying to learning Quantum Espresso using tutorials give but I 'm not able to run the excises. I 'm constantly getting this error %% Error in routine readpp (2): file

[Pw_forum] Input file shows diffrent structure in xcrysden.

2014-11-13 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi everybody, I have created a input file for pw.x (posted below) calculation = 'scf',restart_mode='from_scratch',pseudo_dir = '/home/material/Desktop/espresso-5.1/pseudo/', outdir='/home/material/Desktop/espresso-5.1/',prefix = 'he',verbosity = 'high' / ibrav = 2,

[Pw_forum] Application of QE (CP) in computing properties of polymers and liquid crystals

2014-11-17 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, I have a simple question can QE or CP can be used for computing properties of Polymers and Liquid Crystals. What I mean is if I run a calculation on a polymer in nscf/cp as insulator and compute their properties like Charge density, DOS and Band gap. will the results hold, if no what kind

[Pw_forum] Documentation for q2r.in and matdyn.in

2016-07-17 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am trying to do phonon dispersion calculation to determine the stability of my system. Can please some one please provide me with the documentation for q2r.in and matdyn.in, I am unable to find those. Regards,Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader,Research Student,Dept. of Physics,University of

[Pw_forum] Conversion of alat to bhor of CELL_PARAMETERS

2016-09-03 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, It would be very helpful if someone can inform me as how to convert or define a crystal structure in the combination of ibrav = 0 and CELL_PARAMETERS in bhor rather than the normally used combination of ibrav = 0 and CELL_PARAMETERS in alat. As I what to use phononpy for the

[Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Dispersion after geometry optimization twice.

2016-09-07 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, After performing the geometry optimization twice, I am still getting negative phonon dispersion. For first geometry optimization I used following tags calculation = 'vc-relax' ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' cell_dofree = 'shape' And for second time I used following tags calculation =

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Dispersion after geometry optimization twice.

2016-09-07 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Thanks for the Reply. The negative frequencies are not just at gamma but along the axis of k vector (please check attachment for phonon dispersion png) >> If somewhere else, you have a phase instability and a soft phonon mode >>(if it's a charge density wave, not evident say GGA will be good

[Pw_forum] Unknown Symmetry Error in ph.x.

2016-09-25 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am getting an error as %% Error in routine find_mode_sym (1): unknown mode symmetry %% stopping ... unknown mode

Re: [Pw_forum] Unknown Symmetry Error in ph.x.

2016-09-25 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
>input so we can see what is happening. > >Andrea > > >Quoting Mohammed Ghadiyali : > >> Dear All, >> I am getting an error as >> >> %% >>Erro

Re: [Pw_forum] Error in phonon calculation

2016-10-18 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, I have no comments on why is your calculation not being successful. But I would suggest you to use Phononpy for phonon calculations. It is a free and quite simple to use with the sophistication required. Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader. ___

Re: [Pw_forum] method to create high-symmetry k-paths?

2016-11-04 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, This research paper might also help, It contains high symettry path for all systems. link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2974 Regards, Ghdaiyali Mohammed Kader. ___ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org

[Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Frequencies - Numerical instability or unstable structure

2016-12-04 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am working on a bilayer tin system and has performed geometry relaxation using Quantum Espresso 5.4.0 of the structure via: 1. One relax calculation - for coordinate relaxation 2. One vc-relax calculation with cell_do_free as 2Dxy - for coordinate and cell shape relaxation

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Frequencies - Numerical instability or unstable structure

2016-12-05 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, The structure is two dimensional similar to bi-layer graphene. Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader Research Scholar University of Mumbai. ___ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Frequencies - Numerical instability or unstable structure

2016-12-05 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Respected Sir. I have computed the force for the super cell and used the parameter --dim="2 2 1" . Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader Research Scholar University of Mumbai. ___ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative Phonon Frequencies - Numerical instability or unstable structure

2016-12-07 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Respected Sir, Thank you for your suggestion. Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader Research Scholar University of Mumbai. ___ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum

[Pw_forum] Error in K resolved DOS, with SOC.

2017-01-19 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I 'm trying to do the K resolved DOS calculation with the Spin orbit coupling and it is giving me the following error: (I am also attaching the output file) projwfc.x:30748 terminated with signal 11 at PC=41e746 SP=7709e6e0. Backtrace: projwfc.x[0x41e746] projwfc.x[0x40aef8]

Re: [Pw_forum] Error in K resolved DOS, with SOC.

2017-01-20 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
I have not tested on the QE Version 6.0, I am currently using QE 5.4.0 Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader ___ Pw_forum mailing list Pw_forum@pwscf.org http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum

[Pw_forum] Calculation for determining Band Inversion due to Spin Orbit Coupling.

2017-01-21 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi All, I 'm working on band structure of stanene - with and with spin orbit coupling (SOC). I have been able to replicate the results but I 'm not getting how should I detect the band inversion due to SOC. I have performed the k resolved DOS for the same, but I am not to determine any

[Pw_forum] Calculation for determining Band Inversion due to Spin Orbit Coupling (edited)

2017-01-21 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi All, I 'm working on band structure of Stanene - with and without Spin Orbit Coupling (SOC). I have been able to replicated the reported results, but I 'm not getting how should I detect the band inversion due to SOC. I have performed K resolved DOS, for the same. But I 'm not able to

[Pw_forum] Use of nspin simultaneously with noncolin.

2017-01-25 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear ALL, I and currently working on the bi-layer 2D tin and I having band splitting when SOC is implemented. I want to further investigate this band splitting, similar to the work published here: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 2175?2181 (10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00693) Here they have

[Pw_forum] Use of nspin simultaneously with noncolin.

2017-01-25 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Thanks for the reply. Basically this is what I should do noncolin = .true., lspinorb = .true., starting_magnetization = 0, But after this would I be able to get the spin up and down components in the band structure separate? Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kadre

[Pw_forum] SOC with Spin Polarization (UP and DOWN SPIN)

2017-01-26 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear ALL, I have asked this question before but I 'm not getting a solution to my problem. I 'm doing SOC calculation on bilayer 2D tin, in the band structure I am getting band splitting, I suspect that band splitting is due to the UP and DOWN spin of the electron. For verifying I need to

[Pw_forum] SOC with Spin Polarization (UP and DOWN SPIN)

2017-01-27 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Thanks, Federico for the reply. I do understand that when SOC is used than spin polarization is not considered. But that's the problem the paper which I 'm referring does talk about it and do provide the information regarding the spin polarization, in the paper "Valence Band Splitting on

[Pw_forum] How to specify kpoint and kband in pp.x

2017-02-02 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear ALL, I 'm want to compute charge density at specific k-points and have came across this post: http://qe-forge.org/pipermail/pw_forum/2013-May/101699.html and further this blog article (google translated):

[Pw_forum] How to specify kpoint and kband in pp.x (AGAIN)

2017-02-03 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear ALL, I 'm want to compute charge density at specific k-points and have came across this post: http://qe-forge.org/pipermail/pw_forum/2013-May/101699.html and further this blog article (google translated):

[Pw_forum] Kpoints using tpiba_b

2017-03-15 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am trying to do recreate the one dimensional energy bands [fig 1] in the paper "Quantum Spin Hall effect in Graphene" by C. L. Kane (Ref 1). For it I need to give kpoints path as 0 to pi/a to 2pi/a. So is this format correct KPOINTS {tpiba_b} 2 0.00.00.0 100 1.0

Re: [Pw_forum] Kpoints using tpiba_b for egde stages calculations (re-posting)

2017-03-17 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear All, I am trying to do recreate the one dimensional energy bands [fig 1] in the paper "Quantum Spin Hall effect in Graphene" by C. L. Kane (Ref 1). For it I need to give kpoints path as 0 to pi/a to 2pi/a. So is this format correct KPOINTS {tpiba_b} 2 0.00.00.0 100 1.0

Re: [Pw_forum] Kpoints using tpiba_b for egde stages calculations (re-posting)

2017-03-17 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Thanks for the reply. I need to calculate the egde states, which is basically like a nano ribbon the fig 1 in the paper has insert which depicts it. Attaching the image of the fig 1 form the paper. Regards, Ghadiyali Mohammed Kader. Paper:

[Pw_forum] Selecting vales for doing Electric field calcualtions

2017-11-02 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Dear all, I intend to do calculations on a bilayer system with perpendicular electric field applied to it, as per the documentation and few forum post I am required to do following modifications: tefield = .true., dipfield = .true., emaxpos

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative frequence at Gamma point and other kpoints

2017-11-20 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, It might be because you have not geometry optimized your system completely. I recommend you to run a relax calculation with following parameters changed, they might seem overkill but they work: in CONTROL etot_conv_thr = 1.0D-6, forc_conv_thr = 1.0D-5, in

Re: [Pw_forum] Negative frequence at Gamma point and other kpoints

2017-11-20 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi, It might be because you have not geometry optimized your system completely. I recommend you to run a relax calculation with following parameters changed, they might seem overkill but they work: in CONTROL etot_conv_thr = 1.0D-6, forc_conv_thr = 1.0D-5, in

[Pw_forum] Error in Phonon dispersion calculation

2017-12-09 Thread Mohammed Ghadiyali
Hi all, I am getting an error while computing the phonon dispersion of a 2D material layer similar to trilayer graphene. I am using the example no 14 of Phonon as the guide. As per the procedure first, I perform an SCF calculation with the k-point grid of 15 X 15 X 1, followed by a ph.x