Dear Abhirup,

> It seems that turbo_eels does not work with nspin = 2.


You are right. As I wrote in my previous email, turbo_eels does not work in the 
collinear spin-polarised case. However, it works in the noncollinear 
spin-polarized case, which is activated by setting noncolin=.true.


> But it does work without npsin = 2 but with smearing and tot_charge = 0/-1/+1


Right! I.e. this corresponds to the case nspin=1, which is the default. 
However, personally I never tested turbo_eels for the cases when tot_charge = 
+1 or -1.


Greetings,

Iurii


--
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Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
________________________________
From: users <[email protected]> on behalf of Abhirup 
Patra <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 6:32:52 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: Re: [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson

Dear Iurii,

Many thanks. It seems that turbo_eels does not work with nspin = 2. It gives an 
error:

Error in routine lr_readin (1):
LSDA is not implemented

But it does work without npsin = 2 but with smearing and tot_charge = 0/-1/+1

Best,
Abhirup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania


On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:49 AM Timrov Iurii 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Abhirup,


Thank you for clarifications!


Please note that the turbo_eels code works for the noncollinear 
spin-polarization (noncolin=.true.), and including the spin-orbit coupling (if 
needed). The turbo_eels code works for the general k-points implementation (k=0 
is allowed), but it does not work for the "gamma_only" case (i.e. using tricks 
to speed up calculations).


The turbo_lanczos and turbo_davidson codes (which are for the absorption 
spectroscopy) do not work in the spin-polarized case (both collinear and 
noncollinear) - yes, you are right.


Best,

Iurii


--
Dr. Iurii Timrov
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
________________________________
From: users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 on behalf of Abhirup Patra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 5:40:47 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: Re: [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson

Dear Iurii,

Thanks for the email. Sorry about not explaining it well. Here is what I meant: 
With spin-polarization and with gamma only kmesh none of the TDDFT code works 
(i.e. turbo_davidson, turbo_eels, turbo_lanczos). So it is difficult to 
simulate optical spectra for a "neutral (tot_charge = 0)" doped/defected 
structure. By "works", I meant that I could run the regular scf-calculation and 
TDDFT codes for any "non-zero (tot_charge = -1 or +1)" charged structure using 
"gamma only" kmesh and "non spin-polarization".

Please let me know if it's still confusing.

Best,
Abhirup


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania


On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 4:06 AM Timrov Iurii 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Abhirup,


Sorry, I miss the point. Could you clarify please what do you mean by saying 
"it works"? Do you refer to the k-points implementation of the turbo_davidson 
code or something else? The k-points algorithm must be disabled for all cases 
(neutral and charged cases), and if this not the case, then I will modify the 
code in order to disable it.


Best,

Iurii


--
Dr. Iurii Timrov
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
________________________________
From: users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 on behalf of Abhirup Patra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 9:36:51 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: Re: [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson

Forgot to mention, it only happens if I do not assign any charge to the 
structure i.e., for neutral case. However, it works for nonzero tot_charge, 
spin-unpolarized situation with fixed smearing and turb_davidson works fine.

Thanks for your comments.

Best,
Abhirup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:29 PM Abhirup Patra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks, Iurii. Yes, the spectrum with gamma point is quite reasonable but do 
not match with the experimental observation. It could be some other issue.

However, I am wondering how to do the TDDFT calculation for a doped/defected 
structure with extra electron or hole. I tried to use turbo_davidson starting 
from i) scf calculation with npsin= 2 and total magnetization and 
turbo_davidson does not work since I believe it does not
for spin-polarized system, then, I tried ii) scf calculation without any 
spin-polarization and the scf calculation did not run since it cannot work with 
an extra charge and 'fixed' occupation, and, finally, iii) scf with smearing 
but turbo_davidson does not support scf calculation with smearing (ref: 
https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2017-January/037363.html)

I believe in this case I cannot use TDDFT of QE to calculate absorption spectra 
of a defected or doped structure. Am I right here?

Best,
Abhirup


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:00 AM Timrov Iurii 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Abhirup,


> However, I am not sure with the number of atoms (~120 or more) GW-BSE 
> calculations with supercell is actually feasible.


Yes, I understand the issue. I do not know if it is feasible. You may try to 
use e.g. Yambo and see how it goes. Otherwise, since you have already quite a 
big cell, maybe with k=0 you obtain quite a reasonably converged spectrum (to 
be checked w.r.t. the cell size)  at the TDDFT level in the adiabatic 
approximation.


Regards,

Iurii


--
Dr. Iurii Timrov
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
________________________________
From: users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 on behalf of Abhirup Patra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 4:47:01 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: Re: [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson

Thanks very much, Iurii. I really appreciate your answer and it does make sense 
to me. With gamma point only it works fine. And, you are  right, my system is a 
solid and I am
trying to simulate the optical spectrum. However, I am not sure with the number 
of atoms (~120 or more) GW-BSE calculations with supercell is actually feasible.

Best,
Abhirup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 7:50 AM Timrov Iurii 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Abhirup,


As you can see from the error message of the turbo_davidson code, the k-points 
algorithm is not supported. Only Gamma point sampling can be used.


If I understand correctly, your system is a solid, right? And you want to use a 
unit cell with a k-points mesh, right? The turbo_davidson cannot be used in 
this case. You may try to use a supercell with a Gamma point sampling. But be 
careful when using TDDFT in the adiabatic approximation for the absorption 
spectroscopy of solids. I recommend that you check literature on this topic. 
Maybe you will need to resort to the BSE approach.


HTH


Iurii Timrov


--
Dr. Iurii Timrov
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+41 21 69 34 881
http://people.epfl.ch/265334
________________________________
From: users 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 on behalf of Abhirup Patra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:12:08 PM
To: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum
Subject: [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson

Hello,

I am trying to use turbo_davidson starting from a SCF calculation using PBE 
without smearing and spin-polarization. This system is a non-metal with bandgap 
of 2.6 eV. I gave uniform k-mesh as follows for the bcc structure with lattice 
constant of 10.34 angstrom.

 K_POINTS {crystal_b}
 9
0.0 0.0 0.0 0
0.0 -0.5 0.0 0
0.0 -0.5 0.5 0
0.5 -0.5 0.5 0
0.5 -0.5 0.0 0
0.5 0.0 0.0 0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0
0.0 0.0 0.5 0
0.5 0.0 0.5 0

&lr_input
    prefix = 'pristine_pbe'
    outdir = './'
!    wfcdir = './'
/
&lr_dav
  num_eign = 35,
  num_init = 70,
  num_basis_max = 200,
  start = 0.0d0
  finish = 3.5d0
  step = 0.001d0
  broadening = 0.005d0
/

However, I am getting the following error:

     Error in routine lr_readin (1):
     k-point algorithm is not tested yet

I am wondering if there is a simple way out to this problem other than 
explicitly testing different k mesh combinations.

Best,
Abhirup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abhirup Patra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania
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