Re: [SIESTA-L] Research Articles on Bandstucture

2016-08-24 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
> Thank You, I am actually doing DFT study of the bandstructure of > Semiconductors such as CdS, CdTe etc. Dear Younas, What does exactly stop you from searching these articles yourself? I believe a quick search on Google will solve easily your problem. Good luck! Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] Repeated charge density in real cube file

2016-03-10 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Zaw Myo Win, When I run denchar for drawing wave function for C60, I met one problem. That is the repeated wave function image in the same file. I mean I drew two C60 wavefunction with denchar. But I saw more than two C60 wave function in a single cube file. They are like a mirror of or

Re: [SIESTA-L] HOMO-LUMO gap

2016-02-16 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Barnali, On 16/02/16 08:25, Barnali Bhattacharya wrote: Respected SIESTA users, I am facing a problem regarding HOMO-LUMO gap calculation of a graphene flake using SIESTA 3.2. I have calculated HOMO-LUMO gap (1.43 eV) from *.EIG file as the HOMO is the energy level right below EF, and

Re: [SIESTA-L] Random Phase Approximation in SIESTA

2016-01-24 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
> I would just like to know if there is any way to perform Random Phase > Approximation (RPA) calculations using Siesta? What about looking it up on the manual? Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] Relaxing Si001 surface

2016-01-03 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Reza, you should reduce your DM.MixingWeight to 0.01-0.05 (you should test it, but this is a reasonable guess). This should get your SCF to converge. HOWEVER, notice that you are using a rather poor basis set, so don't expect a very good accuracy. Riccardo - Mensaje original -

Re: [SIESTA-L] Problem using gnubands

2015-07-23 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
ile format. Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain tel.: +34 935801853 ext. 347 e-mail: rrur...@icmab.es http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-3676-2011 Man, the dope's that there's still hope

Re: [SIESTA-L] atom contribution from pDOS

2015-03-07 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
- Mensaje original - De: "Suman Chowdhury" Dear user, In one paper, the authors have used siesta and commented such that "by calculating pDOS we can conclude that the contribution to the DOS is mainly due to the edge atoms...". My question is how can it be calculated? Because pDOS gives u

Re: [SIESTA-L] chain relaxation

2014-12-22 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
- Mensaje original - De: "joyce79928cc ." > Can you tell me how to do a "egg box" test? > >I have searched on the Internet, but I can't understand it. >Thank you! > >Any advice is appreciate. What about checking the manual too? Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] the flag of DM.MixH

2014-12-10 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
- Mensaje original - De: "Jingxian Yu" >> In order to facilitate the convergence of a transiesta job, would you mind to tell us some successful ideas you have tried before? Guys, notice that you're talking about an option,DM.MixH, that, as Nick already indicated, DOES NOT EXIST. At lea

Re: [SIESTA-L] where to find out eigenvalue in the output of SIESTA

2014-10-28 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
>> they said that this file conclude Fermi level, # k-points, # bands, # Spin components... but no eigenvalue. >> can anyone tell me where to find out eigenvalue? What about all the other numbers? ;) The lower eigenvalue you are looking for is, in this case, -16.05660 eV. Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] VariableCell

2014-10-27 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
The z parameter in graphene is meaningless and its only use is to allow a sufficient thickness of the vacuum buffer to minimize interaction with the periodic images of your system. In other words: you should take a large value of az and optimize only the in-plane lattice vectors. Riccardo ---

Re: [SIESTA-L] Monkhorst Pack grid for structure relaxation

2014-10-01 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
id is simply 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 Because this will accelerate the convergence...I just want to relax the structure..Will not use any data for calculation... -- /*Senior research fellow Dept. of Physics, University of Calcutta Kolkata- 79, West Bengal, India.*/ /* Ph no-+91-9830512232*/ /* */ -

Re: [SIESTA-L] How to restart Siesta?

2014-09-20 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Nobody answers this kind of question on the list because they are more than clearly explained in the manual. http://tinyurl.com/ooaapwt Riccardo - Mensaje original - De: "Suman Chowdhury" Para: siesta-l@uam.es Enviados: Domingo, 21 de Septiembre 2014 7:57:15 Asunto: Re: [SIESTA-L] How t

Re: [SIESTA-L] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-18 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
>>> If I use KPOINTS MonkHorst Pack 2 2 2 for first calculation and then chenge it to KPOINTS MonkHorst Pack 4 4 4 for second calculation. should I use the .XV .DM .CG file for the second calculation?? thank you! If you want the second calculation to be a continuation of the first calculatio

Re: [SIESTA-L] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-18 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
>> when you do this two step for calculation (1) relax with DM.Tolerance 1E-3 (2) reconverge the electronic structure down to DM.Tolerance 1E-4 will you save .XV .DM .CG file for the second step calculation? Of course, otherwise the second calculation would start again fro scratch. Also y

Re: [SIESTA-L] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-17 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
系碩一 MOBILE:0930287221(中華) GMAIL:joyce79...@gmail.com <mailto:wisdom4...@gmail.com> 2014-09-17 15:38 GMT+08:00 Riccardo Rurali mailto:rrur...@icmab.es>>: On 9/17/14 3:57 AM, joyce79928cc . wrote: Dear Riccardo: so in your case, when you do the calculation with D

Re: [SIESTA-L] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-17 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
On 9/17/14 3:57 AM, joyce79928cc . wrote: Dear Riccardo: so in your case, when you do the calculation with DM.Tolerance 1E-3 and MD.MaxForceTol0.04 eV/Ang. how many CPUs you use? thank you! Well, of course it depends on the size of the system. The converge parameters indicated above are not

Re: [SIESTA-L] Primitive Cell

2014-09-16 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
It's not that you can, you must. Riccardo - Mensaje original - De: "berna uyanık" Para: siesta-l@uam.es Enviados: Martes, 16 de Septiembre 2014 17:20:19 Asunto: [SIESTA-L] Primitive Cell There are two atoms in graphen's primitive cell. Can I use "NumberOfAtoms 2" for graphene? Thanks f

Re: [SIESTA-L] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-16 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
still be claimed that running with DM.Tolerance 1E-4 from the very beginning would lead to less CG steps. I have no hard numbers against that argument, but I wouldn't say it's the case. Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) Campus de

Re: [SIESTA-L] Negative Differential Resistance effect

2014-07-17 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
http://tinyurl.com/nt7quj4 - Mensaje original - De: "邵德喜" Dear everyone: I really want to know if anyone have encount such a case when we calculate the transport property of some material :the current goes down with the bias goes up. It is also named Negative Differential Resistance

Re: [SIESTA-L] reg: Transverse Electric field

2014-03-13 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
On 3/13/14 3:45 PM, Amar Bahadur wrote: Dear siesta users, How can I apply transverse electric field to the structure? What is indicated in the manual is not good enough...? http://departments.icmab.es/leem/siesta/Documentation/Manuals/siesta-3.1-manual/node67.html R

Re: [SIESTA-L] problem with Ge in LDA with Siesta

2014-02-09 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
- Mensaje original - De: "Roberto Guerra" Para: siesta-l@uam.es Enviados: Domingo, 9 de Febrero 2014 11:43:45 Asunto: Re: [SIESTA-L] problem with Ge in LDA with Siesta > I just wish to note that in all the cases I have treated SIESTA produces > band gaps much larger than other plane-wave

Re: [SIESTA-L] problem with Ge in LDA with Siesta

2014-02-06 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
On 2/6/14 4:00 PM, Hela Ouali wrote: On 06/02/2014 15:43, Riccardo Rurali wrote: Dear Siesters, I am having trouble with Ge in LDA with Siesta. As is well-known, Ge is a pathological case within DFT-LDA: the gap shrinks so much that is becomes negative, i.e. Ge is metallic in LDA. However

[SIESTA-L] problem with Ge in LDA with Siesta

2014-02-06 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
g Ge with Siesta ans trying to recover to "right" (which is wrong in reality...) LDA behavior? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellater

Re: [SIESTA-L] Variable cell optimization with constraints

2014-01-28 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
. Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain tel.: +34 93 5801853 ext. 347 e-mail: rrur...@icmab.es http://www.icmab.es/dmmis/leem/ Man, the

Re: [SIESTA-L] Fullerene Band Structure

2013-12-19 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
ere is no such thing). Good luck, Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain tel.: +34 93 5801853 ext. 347 e-mail: rrur...@icmab.es http://www

Re: [SIESTA-L] Fullerene Band Structure

2013-12-19 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
micCoordinatesFormat NotScaledCartesianAng # Format for coordinates %block AtomicCoordinatesAndAtomicSpecies 2.78083947 0.02742816 -11.17845346 1 etc %endblock AtomicCoordinatesAndAtomicSpecies -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superio

[***Posible SPAM***]Re: [SIESTA-L] resume siesta?

2013-07-27 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Hi Drogar. typing your question in google would have been faster...;-) http://tinyurl.com/p74nsmr Riccardo - Original Message - From: "Drogar" To: "siesta-l" Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 10:25:43 AM Subject: [SIESTA-L] resume siesta? Hello every body my computer system is shot downe

Re: [SIESTA-L] fdf

2013-05-24 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
On 5/24/13 3:45 PM, aouchenni boudjemaa wrote: I am a new siesta user, I would like ask you how we can create an fdf file input. With a text editor. Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] pdos of pz orbital

2012-10-08 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
nd in this case I have to choose which orbital of atom I want for pdos, do you think ,I should explicitly use block pdos in my input file for this situation? thanks so much for your attention *From:* Riccardo Rurali

Re: [SIESTA-L] pdos of pz orbital

2012-10-07 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
>>>in this curve I knew which energies is dominated by pz orbitals, but I want >>>to know which energy is approximately related to pz orbital of methyle >>>group. Does pdos help me? Of course PDOS can help you! In the PDOS file you have the total density of states decomposed into ('projected'

Re: [SIESTA-L] Macroscopic & Planar Averaged Potential

2012-09-13 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Giacomo, >> Can I calculate MAV (PAV) to describe in a reliable way the potential profile of an ASYMMETRIC, NOT-periodic, interface constituted by an organic molecule on top of a Metal Oxide surface? I would say that the non-periodicity and the asymmetric geometry are not issues for this

Re: [SIESTA-L] tbtrans

2012-07-01 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Most likely your TS.NumUsedAtomsLeft and TS.NumUsedAtomsRight variables do not indicate the correct number of atoms of the electrodes. Riccardo - Original Message - From: "Manjeet bhatia" To: siesta-l@uam.es Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 9:40:03 AM Subject: [SIESTA-L] tbtrans sir, I am

Re: [SIESTA-L] LDA TM2 pseudos for B & N

2012-04-03 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
On 04/03/2012 02:35 PM, Huan Tran wrote: >> Does anybody know if there is a tool to convert >> pseudopotentials from the abinit format to siesta >> format? Yes, there is a way. Actually somebody already did it for you :) http://www.icmab.es/dmmis/leem/siesta/Databases/Pseudopotentials/periodict

Re: [SIESTA-L] Occupation of electronic states

2012-03-29 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Marcos, I'm not sure this is what Feffe wants (and he wants it really bad, because I've already told him this feature is not available :) ). He would like to see, next to the list of eigenvalues, the number of electrons of that eigenstate. Like in most plane-wave codes. With Mulliken analy

Re: [SIESTA-L]

2012-01-29 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Pradeep, - Original Message - From: "Pradeep Kumar" >>> can i install siesta on windows xp operating system? No, you can't :( Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] Transiesta: length of electrode unit cell

2012-01-20 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
it is periodic in z diretion. So this question I think need to be further discussed. I agree what have been discussed on the max radii of the orbital and the length of the unitcell of the electrode. Best Guangping 2012-01-20 Guangping Zhang 发件人: Riccardo Rurali 发送时间: 2012-01-06 03:3

Re: [SIESTA-L] Transiesta: length of electrode unit cell

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear David, - Original Message - okay that was what I've been thinking too. I am calculating a molecular junction with Au(111) electrodes, the size of the electrode is of course crucial for the computing time. However, if I look through the output of different Transiesta examples¹ I fi

Re: [SIESTA-L] Transiesta: length of electrode unit cell

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Dear Guangping, - Original Message - Would you like to explain me what the "Naive supercell factors" and "Internal auxiliary supercell" actually mean? They are puzzling me a lot. I don not think 2 mean there is only interactions between the nearest unitcells. Like what Yunpeng said, he

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why does not anyone answer the question?

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
>> Why does not anyone answer the question? Maybe because people think that you should figure it out yourself by simply looking in the manual. Riccardo - Original Message - From: "majid fathiyan" To: siesta-l@uam.es Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 1:36:53 PM Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why do

Re: [SIESTA-L] Transiesta: length of electrode unit cell

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
rived from the range of support for the orbital basis functions)." How do you know if that's the case? Can I see this in the output "internal auxiliary supercell"? Yes, you can. The third number if the internal auxiliary supercell must be 2. Riccardo -- Riccardo Rura

Re: [SIESTA-L] how to get the quantities of the SystemLabel.VH or SystemLabel.VT file

2011-11-03 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Hi again. A colleague made me notice that you have the problem I described when you try to process a VT file. If what you want in the first place is working with a VH file everything should be fine. Riccardo On 11/3/11 10:03 AM, Riccardo Rurali wrote: Dear aqing, the thing is that

Re: [SIESTA-L] how to get the quantities of the SystemLabel.VH or SystemLabel.VT file

2011-11-03 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
../../../src/01_macroavnew_ext/iorho.F90 (unit = 1, file = 'bulk_Au.VH') Fortran runtime error: Format present for UNFORMATTED data transfer supercaq@supercaq-ThinkPad-Edge:~/workfunction$ what is the problem? can anyone help me ? Thank you very much ! aqing -- Riccardo Rurali Institut

Re: [SIESTA-L] reconstruct the wavefunctions

2011-05-19 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
If by "reconstructing the wavefunctions" you mean spatially represent them, you should check the manual of the Denchar utility (in the Util directory of your Siesta copy), which, among other things, does this one. Riccardo - Original Message - From: "Guangping Zhang" To: siesta-l@uam.

Re: [SIESTA-L] siesta: WARNING: Atoms 460 641 too close: rij = 0.351881 Ang

2011-05-14 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
- Original Message - From: "lily zheng" To: siesta-l@uam.es >> how to fix the question like"siesta: WARNING: Atoms >> 460 641 too close: rij = 0.351881 Ang" ? A wild guess: increase the distance between atom 460 and 641... Riccardo

Re: [SIESTA-L] Optical properties

2011-04-01 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Just a suggestion: http://tinyurl.com/3q4ssgj Riccardo - Original Message - From: "Abhishek Sharma" To: siesta-l@uam.es Sent: Friday, April 1, 2011 2:18:54 PM Subject: [SIESTA-L] Optical properties Dear All I want to know that which theory is used by siesta to calculate optical prope

Re: [SIESTA-L] Problem with H2 molecule

2011-03-25 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
data base). Can anyone give me some instruction to solve this problem? I appreciate to all your help. Sincerely, --- Loc Duong Dinh -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científ

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why LatticeConstant overwritten by SIESTA?

2011-03-06 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
The usual suspects: - you have a synatx error in your FDF file - you reading a XV file where the lattice constant is 1 bohr - you haven't read the manual If you attached your FDF file the diagnostic would be easier. Riccardo - Original Message - From: "root" Hi all, I have set Latti

Re: [SIESTA-L] what is the method the siesta-3.0 used to calculate the optical properties?

2011-03-01 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
tions? thank you ! 2011-03-01 caqhero -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain

Re: [SIESTA-L] For help: How to pply a constant initial velocity or external force on some atoms of a system.

2011-01-21 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
routine constr %endblock GeometryConstraints Good luck, Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain tel.: +34 93 5801853 ext. 347 e-ma

Re: [SIESTA-L] Denchar and non-cubic cells

2010-10-22 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Roberto, I think it is enough to define a Denchar rectangular cell that is larger than your computational Siesta cell. It's not very nice (you'll see the atoms of the Siesta cell and the wave function in a larger portion of space, but with the correct periodicity, boundary conditions,...). I t

Re: [SIESTA-L] Wavefunction plot at k-point other than Gamma

2010-10-09 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Here it goes: Original Message Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] plot wavefunction at all k-points Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:09:39 +0100 From: Riccardo Rurali Reply-To: Siesta, Self-Consistent DFT LCAO program, http://www.uam.es/siesta To: siest...@listserv.uam.es Dear Zelia, with a

Re: [SIESTA-L] reading WFS file

2010-05-27 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
ith the Denchar utility, distributed with Siesta and stored in the Util directory. Check out the manual there. But again, I'm assuming that this what you want to do... Good luck, Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigacion

Re: [SIESTA-L] How to obtain DOS and PDOS?

2010-02-11 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
ance. > > Best regards, > > pablo > > > > > - Original Message - From: "Riccardo Rurali" > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:31 PM > Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] How to obtain DOS and PDOS? > > >> Hola Gregorio.

Re: [SIESTA-L] How to obtain DOS and PDOS?

2010-02-11 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
structure calculation has not enough k-points. Improve the sample and the DOS should get better and more similar to what you see when you look at the band structure. Best Regards, Riccardo -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Ci

Re: [SIESTA-L] about grid2cube

2010-01-19 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Obviously I intended this to be a private message. My apologies for the spamming ;.( Riccardo Riccardo Rurali wrote: > Giacomo, > > sul mio PC funziona! Mandami tutti i RHO che vuoi e ti rimbalzo i CUBE. > Riccardo > > > > Giacomo Giorgi wrote: >> Dear All, &g

Re: [SIESTA-L] about grid2cube

2010-01-19 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
ilar posts in the forum but without any reply. > Could anybody help me, please? > > > Best, > Giacomo > > > -- Riccardo Rurali Institut de Ciència de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Campus de Bellaterra 08193 Bellaterra (Ba