[Pw_forum] smearing at zero K

2008-12-01 Thread Jiri Houska
Hello,
a simple question, but I want to be sure about that: when running a wavefunction
optimization for a metal at zero K, should the result be the same with (1)
occupations smearing & practically-zero degauss and with (2) occupations fixed?

(I understand that using of smearing improves speed of the convergence, but that
is not the question.)

Thanks,
Jiri Houska
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal




[Pw_forum] complex band

2008-12-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Dear Alexander, 
 Dont worry about the previous mail, I figured it out :)

-manoj 
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Dear Alexander, 
>  Thank you very much for your answer. It has started making sense, but
> unfortunately not a whole lot. I think I need to have complete
> understanding of this subroutine in order to have the bigger picture. In
> the other e-mail, copied and pasted as below - 
> > the expression -
> > norm2=(((il+xyk(1,ik))*bg(1,1)+(jl+xyk(2,ik))*bg(1,2))**2+ &
> > ((il+xyk(1,ik))*bg(2,1)+(jl+xyk(2,ik))*bg(2,2))**2)* &
> >
> > i believe is  |G+k|^2. How do you get above expression in the code for
> > this? 
> norm2 is indeed |G_perp+k_perp|^2, where G_perp=il*b_1+jl*b_2 and 2d
> vector 
> k_perp=xyk(1,ik)*b_1+xyk(2,ik)*b_2 and you indeed select out those 
> G_perp+k_perp which satisfy (G_perp+k_perp)^2 
> Why is K_perp in terms of b_1 and b_2? You can ofcourse take it
> like that but is there any specific reason to do that? If we look at the
> Fourier transform of wavefunction psi(r)=sum_{G}\psi(G)exp(i(K+G).r).
> here in this expression do we always take K in terms of G. I dont think
> so, K can be a label, which might be in terms of G vectors but not
> necessarily. What do you think? 
> In the input file where we enter k_x and k_y, do we enter  these  in
> terms of b1 and b2? or somewhere later in the code it gets multiplied with
> b1 and b2, if yes where? I am having tough time figuring it out :( 
> Thanks for help. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Manoj Srivastava
> Department of Physics,
> University of Florida, Gainesville
> 
> 
>  On Fri, 28 Nov 2008,
> Alexander wrote:
> 
> > Dear Manoj
> > Ngper is the total number of g_perp=G_perp+k_perp with |g_perp|^2 > which are arranged into the shells. Each shell contains g_perp having the 
> > same 
> > norm which is very useful because many calculations with g_perp depend only 
> > on their norms. The number of shells is ngpsh. gnsh(ngpsh) is the norm for 
> > each shell, ninsh(ngpsh)  is the number of g_perp in the shell.
> > The array nshell is the auxiliary array used further to arrange the g_perp 
> > vectors in the shells.
> > 
> > Hope this helps you,
> > regards, Alexander 
> > 
> > and ngpsh is the number of shells 
> > 
> > On Thursday 27 November 2008 00:26, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > Dear Alexander, PWSCF users and developers,
> > >  I have a technical question in one of the subroutines used to calculate
> > > complex band. The subroutine 'init_gper.f90' under PWCOND directory is
> > > used to calculate number of G perpendicular vectors within the energy
> > > cutoff by using [k_{\perp}+G_{\perp}]^2.le.E_{cut}. I understand the
> > > counting of Gper, but i dont understand how do they construct the Gper
> > > vectors. For example what is 'ngpsh'? It is defined as 'no. of shells for
> > > G', but i really dont understand what this is. I dont understand after
> > > line 50 of the code in init_gper.f90.  Mainly what does the following
> > > piece of code do
> > >
> > >   do i=1,nrx
> > > do j=1,nry
> > >icount=0
> > >   do iw=1, ngpsh
> > >if (abs(norm2-gnorm2(iw)).gt.eps) then
> > >  icount=icount+1
> > >else
> > >  nshell(i,j)=iw
> > >endif
> > >  enddo
> > >  if (icount.eq.ngpsh) then
> > >ngpsh=ngpsh+1
> > >gnorm2(ngpsh)=norm2
> > >nshell(i,j)=ngpsh
> > >  endif
> > >   endif
> > >   enddo
> > >   enddo
> > > I understand it is not a good way of asking question, but I am completely
> > > lost. Any help will be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Manoj
> > >
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