Dear Sergei,

> posting the input files would not help much


Well, for me it would help. Otherwise it is difficult/impossible to guess what 
exactly you are doing. For example, see my comments below.


> I run NSCF with SOC after the SCF run without SOC in QE-6.3 compiled with 
> -D_OLDXML. It works well for the unpolarized case.


This point is not clear to me. SOC can be used only when noncolin=.true., 
AFAIK. So how come you include SOC in the unpolarized case?


> When I expand this unpolarized case to DFT+U calculations for SCF and 
> DFT+U+SOC for NSCF by adding U for one type of atoms, NSCF ends up with 
> error: ‘Error in routine read_scf (1): Reading ldaU ns’.


DFT+U with SOC can be done only when noncolin=.true., and only when 
lda_plus_u_kind = 1. Are you using that? I wanted to see this from your input...


> Where is the read_scf routine located?


Are you familiar with Fortran programming and basic Unix commands? By doing 
"grep read_scf */*" in the QE root you will immediately find that read_scf is 
located in PW/src/io_rho_xml.f90


> Are ldaU ns (occupancies) written in the occup.txt file in the outdir 
> directory?


ns is written to occup.txt, but it is located in the temporary directory 
(defined in your input via "outdir")


> If so, how can the sequence of the numbers in that file be interpreted?


Again, by using "grep" and the keyword "occup.txt" you will find that you 
should look in PW/src/io_rho_xml.f90 on lines 81-108 in QE 6.6


> What is the possible reason for this error?


Without understanding what exactly you are doing (= looking at your input and 
output files), personally I cannot answer this question.


HTH


Greetings,

Iurii


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Dr. Iurii Timrov
Postdoctoral Researcher
STI - IMX - THEOS and NCCR - MARVEL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Subject: Re: [QE-users] Error of read_scf routine while reading ldaU ns

Dear Iurii,

As it turns out, posting the input files would not help much, because in the 
DFT+U case the noncolin flag leads to a change in the format of writing/reading 
of DFT+U occupations in the occup.txt file. It is unfortunate, since in my 
opinion, the noncolin format could be as well used for all other cases, thus 
making it unified. Therefore, tricks similar to ForceTheorem are no possible in 
the DFT+U case without changing the code. My guess, it would be easy for the 
person who programmed that because not so many changes are required while for 
me as an outsider, it would take some time to figure out all the dependencies 
in the code.

Best regards,
Sergei Butorin

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Timrov Iurii
Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2020 20:13
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Subject: Re: [QE-users] Error of read_scf routine while reading ldaU ns


Dear Sergei,



Can you provide please the input files of your calculations? This will help us 
to understand better what is the problem.



Greetings,

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
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<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 on behalf of Sergei Butorin 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 8:04:42 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [QE-users] Error of read_scf routine while reading ldaU ns

I run NSCF with SOC after the SCF run without SOC in QE-6.3 compiled with 
-D_OLDXML. It works well for the unpolarized case. When I expand this 
unpolarized case to DFT+U calculations for SCF and DFT+U+SOC for NSCF by adding 
U for one type of atoms, NSCF ends up with error: ‘Error in routine read_scf 
(1): Reading ldaU ns’.

I guess my questions are rather for developers. Where is the read_scf routine 
located? Are ldaU ns (occupancies) written in the occup.txt file in the outdir 
directory? If so, how can the sequence of the numbers in that file be 
interpreted? What is the possible reason for this error?

Best regards,
Dr. Sergei Butorin
Uppsala University
Sweden








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