Dear TranSIESTA developers and users,

I have posted the same quesiton before as the attached at the end. But no one 
replied. So I turn off the TS.TriDiag option and recalculate the same task.
I have found the results for the positive bias are more or less the same. They 
have very small different.
I have mentioned in the first post, when I use the TSDE file of -0.2V to 
initialize the task of -0.4V, and there is a warning:
New_DM. Step:     1
Initializing Density Matrix...
ts_iodm: Reading Density Matrix from files
TRANSIESTA: Continuation run
                     ************************  
                     *   TRANSIESTA BEGIN   *  
                     ************************  
 Read DM has different structure. Fixing...

Although there is no such warnings for larger negative biases, but the current 
for -0.4V as well as that of the larger negative biases are nearly one order 
bigger than the results without using TS.TriDiag option, such as 
-2.47547114E-07 A (with using the TS.TriDiag option) and -3.26144243E-08 A 
(without using the TS.TriDiag option) for -0.4V.

Can anyone give me some advice for this question. It puzzles me a lot.


Best 

Thanks in advance.

Guangping



2011-06-21



Guangping Zhang



发件人: "Guangping Zhang" <[email protected]>
发送时间: 2011-06-13 15:09
主 题: [SIESTA-L] Unexpected results from TranSIESTA:the use of TS.TriDiag option
收件人: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>



Dear TranSIESTA users:

I have encoutered a question about the use of TS.TriDiag option in TranSIESTA. 

I have never used this option before and the results were as the expectation. 
But when I tried this option, I got an unexpected result.

I always use a lower voltage .TSDE file to inite the higher voltage task. And 
there is nothing unusual. But when I use the TS.TriDiag option, when I use the 
.TSDE file of -0.2V to inite the -0.4V task, there is a warning as the 
following and the transmission spectrum of -0.4V has a sudden change compared 
to that of -0.2V.

New_DM. Step:     1
Initializing Density Matrix...
ts_iodm: Reading Density Matrix from files
TRANSIESTA: Continuation run
                     ************************  
                     *   TRANSIESTA BEGIN   *  
                     ************************  
 Read DM has different structure. Fixing...

the two input files are the same expect for the voltage option. As my 
experience, when DM has a different structure, it is always becasue of a 
different basis set or different geometry structure. So I can not understand my 
case. But for other voltages, there is no such warnings.


My questions:
(1): Is there something to take care when using the TS.TriDiag option?

(2): Is there someone experienced in the use of this option, please give some 
advice on how to use it.

Best


Yours,

Guangping

2011-06-13



Guangping Zhang

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