that’s because macroscopic polarization is a property of insulators ... SB

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> On 16 Sep 2018, at 10:42, Sabike Ghasemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> thank you for reply,
> but when ocupation = smearing then i face wiht an error:
>  Berry Phase/electric fields only for insulators!
> 
> From: "Stefano Baroni" <[email protected]>
> To: "Quantum Espresso users Forum" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, urself September 15, 2018 12:10:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [QE-users] electric field
> 
> Not sure, but it seems to me that “occupations=‘fixed’” makes the code assume 
> that the system is an insulator, so that it does not search any Fermi energy. 
> That keyword is somewhat clashing with the “degauss” and “smearing” keywords. 
> Do not know exactly what the code does in this case, but there is something 
> you have to clean up in your input file and, possibly, in your understanding 
> of the code. Also, we usually love to see the name and affiliation of those 
> who post to this forum. Best wishes — Stefano B
> 
> On 15 Sep 2018, at 01:21, Sabike Ghasemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> hello
> i want to apply electric field to bilayer graphene. i am confused why do not 
> have my output fermi energy?
> input is :
> 
>  &CONTROL
>                  calculation = 'scf' ,
>                 restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,
>                   wf_collect = .true. ,
>                       outdir = './out' ,
>                       wfcdir = './out' ,
>                   pseudo_dir = './' ,
>                    verbosity = 'high' ,
>                etot_conv_thr = 1.0D-6 ,
>                forc_conv_thr = 1.0D-2 ,
>                      tstress = .true. ,
>                 tprnfor = .true. ,
>  lelfield=.true., 
>  nberrycyc=3 ,
>  gdir=3 , 
> nppstr=1 ,
>  /
>  &SYSTEM
>                        ibrav = 4,
>                    celldm(1) = 4.511848446,
>                    celldm(3) = 9.462870616,
>                          nat = 4,
>                         ntyp = 1,
>                      ecutwfc = 30 ,
>                      ecutrho = 180 ,
>                            input_dft = 'vdW-DF' ,
>                  occupations = 'fixed' ,
>                      degauss = 0.02 ,
>                     smearing = 'methfessel-paxton' , 
>                         
>  /
>  &ELECTRONS
>             electron_maxstep = 200,
>                     conv_thr = 1.0D-6 ,
>                  startingwfc = 'atomic+random' ,
>                  mixing_beta = 0.3 ,
>   diagonalization = 'cg' ,
> efield_cart(1) = 0.d0,
>               efield_cart(2) = 0.d0,
>               efield_cart(3) = 0.019447d0,
>   /
> 
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
>     C   12.00000  C.blyp-mt.UPF 
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)
> C        0.333333330   0.666666660   0.572649573    
> C        1.000000000   0.000000000   0.572649573    
> C        0.666666660   0.333333330   0.427350427    
> C        1.000000000   0.000000000   0.427350427     
> K_POINTS automatic 
>   12 12 1   0 0 0 
> 
> please help me.
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