Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2022-06-25 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Wien2k users, It seems that I have been able to solve the problem by increasing Rmt of Si. If the problem still persists I would report the same. with regards, On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 at 15:59, shamik chakrabarti wrote: > Dear Wien2k users, > > I hav

Re: [Wien] Ghost Band error

2022-05-22 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Thank you, Madam. I understand. On Sun, 22 May 2022 at 21:16, Lyudmila Dobysheva via Wien < wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > 21.05.2022 09:46, shamik chakrabarti wrote: > > I have obtained converged structure (Volume vs. E) of > > LiCoSbO6 by using spin polarization only

Re: [Wien] Ghost Band error

2022-05-22 Thread Lyudmila Dobysheva via Wien
21.05.2022 09:46, shamik chakrabarti wrote:     I have obtained converged structure (Volume vs. E) of LiCoSbO6 by using spin polarization only for Co. However, while doing a,b,c, Gamma variation for monoclinic lattice I have again encountered Ghost Band error. In this case I have f

Re: [Wien] Ghost Band error

2022-05-20 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Blaha, I have obtained converged structure (Volume vs. E) of LiCoSbO6 by using spin polarization only for Co. However, while doing a,b,c, Gamma variation for monoclinic lattice I have again encountered Ghost Band error. In this case I have found that keeping the spin pol

Re: [Wien] Ghost Band error

2022-05-19 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Blaha, Thank you for your advice Sir. Its running fine now. with regards, On Thu, 19 May 2022 at 21:55, Peter Blaha wrote: > If you do it spin-polarized, create a proper case.inst file with > non-magnetic Li, Sb and O, and only Co should be magnetic. > > instge

Re: [Wien] Ghost Band error

2022-05-19 Thread Peter Blaha
If you do it spin-polarized, create a proper case.inst file with non-magnetic Li, Sb and O, and only Co should be magnetic. instgen -ask init -sp -b ... Am 19.05.2022 um 10:56 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear Wien2k users,                     I am trying to simulate the material as attached

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2021-09-18 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Gavin, The problem is solved by changing Rmt of P to 1.45. Thank you so much! with regards, On Sat, 18 Sept 2021 at 20:27, Gavin Abo wrote: > You might want to check what value you used for -ecut as I noticed a > WARNING from lstart of WIEN2k 21.1 if the default val

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2021-09-18 Thread Gavin Abo
You might want to check what value you used for -ecut as I noticed a WARNING from lstart of WIEN2k 21.1 if the default value of -6.0 is used: username@computername:~/Desktop/test/LFP_opt$ ls LFP_opt.struct username@computername:~/Desktop/test/LFP_opt$ init_lapw -b -ecut -6.0 ...  next is lstart

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in anatase TiO2

2020-08-28 Thread Peter Blaha
With such small RMTs it is clear that the structure is wrong. Am 28.08.2020 um 18:01 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear Wien2k users,                           I am obtaining Ghost band error at the first cycle during running anatase TiO2 (struct file attached). I have changed the Rmt of Ti to

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in anatase TiO2

2020-08-28 Thread Laurence Marks
Your structure is completely wrong -- the Ti-O distance is 1.41073 Angstroms! You probably made a mistake in the cif or positions (I have not searched this, you can). On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:02 AM shamik chakrabarti < shamik15041...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wien2k users, > >

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof, Marks & Prof, Gavin, Thank you so much for your reply. It works fine with Rmt (P) = 1.5 & Rmt (O) =1,4. The calculation converges smoothly. Thanks once again. with regards, On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 00:02, Gavin Abo wrote: > I would suggest refe

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread Gavin Abo
I would suggest referring to previous advice given in the mailings list. For example, there are different ways in which core leakage might need to be addressed: https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg19495.html You might try swapping the RMT of O and P atoms: https:/

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread Laurence Marks
>From a quick test, the issue has nothing to do with the core leakage, rather the small P RMTs. One approach (probably not the only one) is to use a larger RMT for the P and smaller for the O. On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 12:25 PM shamik chakrabarti < shamik15041...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Prof. Gavi

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Gavin, I am sorry for the previous reply. Yes, after, grep WARNING *.outputs the following warnings appeared WARNING: 0.038 PCORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere :WARNING: 0.038 PCORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere :WARNING: touch .lco

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread shamik chakrabarti
I am using w2web. After following your suggestion, I got the following message in w2web page. Commandline: : grep WARNING *.outputst Program input is: "" Execute another command line: Type of execution: Also, in case.outputst there is no warning message displayed. with regards, On Sun, 12

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread Gavin Abo
It might only show that in a terminal.  Are you using w2web, are the warnings in the Li2NiPO4F_check.outputst file? 1. In w2web, click on "command line" under Execution in the left menu. 2. In the "Execute a command line" box, type: grep WARNING *.outputst 3. Click the Run button Does it show

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Gavin, I am using wien 2k 19.1 & surprisingly I am not getting any error regarding core-leakage. (I have kept initial reduction of RMT to 0%) The output is as given below. Commandline: x lstart -up Program input is: "13 -6.0 " SELECT XCPOT: recommended: PBE

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-07-12 Thread Gavin Abo
Probably you need to mention how you handled the core leakage issue during initialization (init_lapw) of WIEN2k 19.2 since if that was not addressed it might lead to the QTL error later during the scf: username@computername:~/wiendata/Li2NiPO4F_check$ ls Li2NiPO4F_check.struct username@computer

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in Na2O

2020-05-25 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Sir, Thank you so much for your solution. It converges smoothly. with kind regards, On Mon, 25 May 2020 at 19:08, Peter Blaha wrote: > No. > > The proper solution is to look into case.scf1 and case.scf2 > > In case.scf2 you can see that the intended EF is: > > :FER : F E R M

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in Na2O

2020-05-25 Thread Peter Blaha
No. The proper solution is to look into case.scf1 and case.scf2 In case.scf2 you can see that the intended EF is: :FER : F E R M I - ENERGY(TETRAH.M.)= -0.2835569073 Edit case.in1 and put instead of 0.3 --> -0.2 for EF (1st line) Then do another run_lapw and it converges quickly. Am 2

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in Na2O

2020-05-25 Thread Laurence Marks
Unfortunately the initial density and parameters are sometimes not very good and leads to ghost bands in the 1st iteration. If you reduce the RMTs to 2.0 (setrmt case -a O:2.0,Na:2.0 ; cp case*setrmt case.struct) and then run there will be a warning in the 1st iteration, but for me it ran OK. Alter

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-02-01 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Sir, I have started to optimize the structural parameter with non-local vanderwaals functionals. However when I edit case.in0 to put XC_GGA_X_B86_R EC_LDA VC_LDA, lapw0 error appeared with LIBXC not installed. I am using wien2k 19.1. Is it that we have to install the XC functional se

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Prof. Laurence, Prof. Gerhard & Prof. Peter, Thank you so much for your valuable advices. I will try all the options & will let you know the results within a few days. with best regards, On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 00:59, Peter Blaha wrote: > First of all, the

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Peter Blaha
First of all, the VASP gaps of bulk SnS2 are 1.91 eV, not 2.1 as you are writing ? Then there are other VASP papers, which report different results, in particular different structural parameters: (Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 318) a=3.693 c=11.680 gap: 1.91 https://doi.org/10.

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Peter Blaha
Just to explain the mechanism how a U for "semicore" 3d states (Sn, but also Zn in ZnO or Ge, ...): Usually, U shifts occupied d-states down by U/2 and unoccupied d-states up by U/2. This is the mechanism eg. in NiO. However, for these fully occupied states, the effect of U is much smaller,

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Fecher, Gerhard
[wien-boun...@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von Laurence Marks [laurence.ma...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Januar 2020 16:45 An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users Betreff: Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued I suggest looking into: a) Whether experimentally this is a direct or ind

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Laurence Marks
An important point Peter pointed out to me some years ago. Remember that electrons are dumb. They go where they want; we think about them as s,p,d etc. I suspect that your Sn d-states should be semi-core (-1.5Ryd) and largely uneffected by +U What you (and perhaps your cited paper) are probably r

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Laurence Marks
N.B., and, as I have said before, use runsp_c which is for spin-polarized but no net magnetic moment; it is twice as fast as runsp and often more stable. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:45 AM Laurence Marks wrote: > I suggest looking into: > > a) Whether experimentally this is a direct or indirect ban

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Laurence Marks
I suggest looking into: a) Whether experimentally this is a direct or indirect band-gap material. If it is an indirect gap, what that value is. The number in case.scf2* is the "minimum gap", not the sometimes larger direct gap. Trust experiment, do not just follow what someone else did. b) Look a

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread shamik chakrabarti
I want to simulate Li intercalation voltage in SnS2. But for that I need to simulate pristine SnS2 properly On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 19:46 Laurence Marks wrote: > Reducing the RMT by 30% is somewhat large. > > The key question is what are you trying to do? Reproducing a result with > Vasp is no

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in SnS2 continued....

2020-01-28 Thread Laurence Marks
Reducing the RMT by 30% is somewhat large. The key question is what are you trying to do? Reproducing a result with Vasp is not good science if that is your purpose. Without that information I doubt that anyone can provide useful advice _ Professor Laurence Marks "Research is to see what ever

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread Laurence Marks
1) Use runsp_c. 2) First converge with U=7, then increase. 3) Reduce your RMTs by a further 5-10%. 4) Look at the PBE/mBJ DOS to see what is going wrong, don't just look at the gap. _ Professor Laurence Marks "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has t

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 16:23, Laurence Marks wrote: > Having a metal rather than an insulator is more of an issue than the gap. > > 1) Are you using runsp_c ? The system should not be magnetic, so it will > be both faster and more stable. > No...I am using spin polarization > 2) First conv

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
With GGA+U with U = 7eV & -1.56 Ry for Sn d in case.in1 we are not getting any Ghostband error...however, with U=8 or 9 eV we are getting the Ghostband error. Again, with U=7 eV we are getting 1.43 eV band gap which is an underestimation with respect to earlier calculation in VASP... On Mo

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread Laurence Marks
Having a metal rather than an insulator is more of an issue than the gap. 1) Are you using runsp_c ? The system should not be magnetic, so it will be both faster and more stable. 2) First converge with PBE, then turn +U on. Maybe only use 5 eV first. Test versus the U value. 3) Reduce your RMTs by

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Again, in that case we are not getting accurate band gap. With GGA it is metallic while the reported value is 2.2 eV with VASPI have also tried mbj, however it gives 0.278 eV On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 16:01, Laurence Marks wrote: > Remove the U, I suspect it is unphysical. Probably it is not ac

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread Laurence Marks
Remove the U, I suspect it is unphysical. Probably it is not acting on the full Sn d semicore states but in fact on the tails of the sulphur. _ Professor Laurence Marks "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Gyorgi www.numis.n

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread shamik chakrabarti
But in that case also we are getting ghostband error...with GGA it is running fine, while with GGA+U with U=9 eV for 4d of Snthe ghostband error appears with -1.56 ry for Sn-d in case.in1...what to do? On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 15:42, Laurence Marks wrote: > The ghostbands almost certainly aris

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2020-01-27 Thread Laurence Marks
The ghostbands almost certainly arise because of the change you made to the d-orbital linearization energy. I strongly recommend that you stay with the default linearization energies and don't adjust them yourself. _ Professor Laurence Marks "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, a

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2016-10-13 Thread Fecher, Gerhard
.ac.at] im Auftrag von Laurence Marks [l-ma...@northwestern.edu] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2016 16:43 An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users Betreff: Re: [Wien] Ghost band error Did you distort the cell, or is this in the first iteration of the cubic cell you attached. To look at tetragonal d

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2016-10-13 Thread Dr. K. C. Bhamu
Dear Shamik, I am also facing the same issue. I am trying to solve it. I found some useful links: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg10561.html http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09836.html http://www.wien2k.at/reg_user/faq/qtlb.html Pl

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error

2016-10-13 Thread Laurence Marks
Did you distort the cell, or is this in the first iteration of the cubic cell you attached. To look at tetragonal distortions you should probably first switch to the tetragonal cell (make for instance c different, e.g. 10.862701) and accept the change to the cell in init_lapw (I get I4/mmm). On

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in volume optimization of TiO2

2016-07-27 Thread Peter Blaha
Your structure is wrong. Such small RMTs are unphysical. Mixed Ang and bohr ?? Am 27.07.2016 um 16:31 schrieb shamik chakrabarti: Dear wien2k users, I have tried to optimize the volume of TiO2 (anatase) by starting with -10% to 10% with a difference of 5% of the initial v

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in mbj calculation

2016-05-10 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Tran & wien2k users, After running almost 140 iterations when I switch the mixing parameter from 0.05 (initial mixing param.) to 0.2, (as the charge convergence was oscillating within 0.01 for almost 30 odd iterations), ghost band appears at the same cycle (at

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in mbj calculation

2016-04-04 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Thanks Tran. Its working. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:16 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > you can try to start the mBJ calculation with the electron density > from the GGA+U calculation (before executing runsp_lapw for mBJ, > copy case.clm/sum/up/dn from the GGA+U calculations). Maybe the > QTL-B value at

Re: [Wien] Ghost band error in mbj calculation

2016-04-01 Thread tran
Hi, you can try to start the mBJ calculation with the electron density from the GGA+U calculation (before executing runsp_lapw for mBJ, copy case.clm/sum/up/dn from the GGA+U calculations). Maybe the QTL-B value at the 1st iteration is smaller such that the calculation does not stop. This can hap

Re: [Wien] ghost band error with mbj potential

2015-12-31 Thread shamik chakrabarti
Dear Laurence, I have converted a 14 atomic Fd3m cell to an 1x1x1 supercell with target lattice primitive. This has transformed the cell to a 56 atomic cell with all 56 atoms inequivalent. Rmt (Ti)=1.8, Rmt(Fe)=1.77, Rmt (Li) = 1.54, Rmt (O)=1.53. I have also changed the MSR1 mixi

Re: [Wien] ghost band error with mbj potential

2015-12-31 Thread Laurence Marks
I have said this many times; reducing the mixing parameter (correctly called the greed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_algorithm) is not a clever thing to do. While the general written and unwritten literature says that this is an appropriate thing to do, it is WRONG and a complete misundersta