Re: [SIESTA-L] Reg: gnubands

2014-02-13 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
just increase the maxb parameter in gnubands.f and recompile ciao RG On 02/13/2014 09:02 AM, Dr. Amar Bahadur wrote: Dear users, While applying command; amar@amar-Inspiron-660s:~/ppt$ *gnubands < Si.bands | tee band.out* STOP Dimensions in gnubands too small

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

2014-02-11 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi, I just wish to note that in all the cases I have treated SIESTA produces band gaps much larger than plane-wave codes. For example SiO2 LDA band gap is about 7eV in SIESTA and 5.5eV in ESPRESSO. Maybe this is related to the SIESTA method itself, or to a non-trivial choice of the basis set.

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

2014-02-09 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi, I just wish to note that in all the cases I have treated SIESTA produces band gaps much larger than other plane-wave codes. For example SiO2 LDA band gap is about 7eV in SIESTA and 5.5eV in ESPRESSO. Maybe this is related to the SIESTA method itself, or to a non-trivial choice of the basis

[SIESTA-L] About the NumberOfEigenstates

2013-03-19 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello everybody, I was trying to take advantage from the NumberOfEigenstates flag during a relaxation, as suggested in the manual, but changing it seem to have no effect at all. For example, the number of orbitals is the same unregarding the NumberOfEigenstates. So, what the NumberOfEigenstate

Re: [SIESTA-L] Regarding error in converting .band into .dat file

2013-03-02 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear Amar, you have to increase the maxb variable in gnubands.f and recompile best, Roberto On 02 March 2013, "Dr. Amar Bahadur" wrote: > Dear Siesta users, >I run the attached agnr.fdf file for 26 atoms in > SIESTA. I converted the obtained *AGNR.bands* file into

Re: [SIESTA-L] << optical properties calculation with spin polarization >>

2013-02-19 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear Camps, since no spin-exchange is provided, optical transitions must conserve the spin. if you don't need the information of spin, you can simply sum e2.dat.spin1 and e2.dat.spin2 in order to get the total e2. By the way, I agree with you that in many cases there's no advantage in splitti

[SIESTA-L] Logarithmic dDmax

2013-02-05 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
now: siesta: iscf Eharris(eV) E_KS(eV) FreeEng(eV) dDmax Ef(eV) siesta:1 -322856.6086 -321897.4955 -321897.4955 4.3754 -4.6544 siesta:2 -369482.8872 -321593.2662 -321606.9558 -3.9240 siesta:3 -322892.9701 -321981.8400 -322024.9239 6.9204 -5.5319 siesta:

Re: [SIESTA-L] How about spin-orbit interaction

2012-12-11 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
in one word, no ciao RG On 11/12/2012 02:23, ?? wrote: Hi, All Siesta Users Has the Spin-orbit interaction been implemented in Siesta code? Than you. Fei Mao Beijing Normal University

Re: [SIESTA-L] Can we use SIESTA to calculate the dielectric constant

2012-12-09 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear, it is possible to calculate the energy dependent dielectric function at q=0 by using the optical flag in the input.fdf Then the static dielectric constant is given by the real part of the dielectric function at zero energy. This method suffer of the RPA+dipole approximation, so it is not e

[SIESTA-L] Fast method for quantum mechanical molecular dynamics

2012-12-03 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
I was wondering if the possibility of using one single diagonalization for each scf step may be applicable to the siesta method: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.174308 "Here we show how to avoid a major computational bottleneck: the self-consistent-field optimization prior to force calcu

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical:scf=1month:1hour (is this conclusive?)

2012-11-15 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear all, since I got no answer I whish to punctualize that I do not expect to be served: if you give me indications on how to improve the code I may try to do the job. Hopefully. cheers, RG On Tue 13 Nov 2012, Roberto Guerra wrote: > Dear all, > > every time I try to make u

[SIESTA-L] optical:scf=1month:1hour (is this conclusive?)

2012-11-13 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear all, every time I try to make use of the optical routine of siesta I'm impressed by its crawling. If a single scf cycle takes 1 hour, the optical calculation took 30.9 days! This is the opposite of what happens in plane-wave codes, where the proportion of scf-vs-optical time consumption is

Re: [SIESTA-L] LDAU calculation

2012-10-23 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi Longhua, I'm also trying to make siesta-ldau working, but it seems that the code is quite experimental and not really optimized. In my case it works only in serial mode and it takes much longer to converge. You may try to set: DM.NumberPulay10 MeshCutoff300.0 Ry DM.MixingW

Re: [SIESTA-L] different electrodes and cell boundaries in transiesta calculation

2011-11-27 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
al with different > left/right electrode problems. > > Yun-Peng > > On 11/23/2011 05:48 PM, Roberto Guerra wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I cannot figure out what's the correct way of setting up the > > scattering region in the case of electrodes made by diffe

[SIESTA-L] different electrodes and cell boundaries in transiesta calculation

2011-11-23 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I cannot figure out what's the correct way of setting up the scattering region in the case of electrodes made by different materials. After I do the calculation for the left and right electrodes, I build the system with left+scat+right regions. The problem is that in defining the cell

[SIESTA-L] siesta website?

2011-10-07 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I cannot reach the siesta website anymore. I used to use this address: http://www.uam.es/departamentos/ciencias/fismateriac/siesta/ Is it changed? Roberto

Re: [SIESTA-L] Denchar files: .REAL .IMAG .MOD .PHASE

2011-06-09 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
On gio 09 giu 2011, Руслан Жачук wrote: > Dear Siesta users, > > in siesta mailing list sometimes the Denchar files with extensions .REAL > .IMAG .MOD .PHASE are mentioned. > See, for example, > ftp://ftp.science.ru.nl/pub/tcm/ma.akhukov/Graphene/100x100x01.fdf/dench > ar-kmk/ > > Can somebody

Re: [SIESTA-L] Optical properties

2011-04-01 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
See equation 2.8 in Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 601 (2002) RG On 01/04/2011 14:18, Abhishek Sharma wrote: Dear All I want to know that which theory is used by siesta to calculate optical properties? Please give me any tutorial in which optical property of any system has been calculated.

Re: [SIESTA-L] heaviness of OpticalCalculation

2011-03-21 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
ical calculations on systems with up to 1300 atoms (PVDF adsorbing onto Ag (30 atoms) on 64 cores. Including all bands and sampling a 1x1x1 optical mesh the calculations took 7 days. Chris On 21 March 2011 03:59, Roberto Guerra wrote: Hello, I'm working on a quite large system (Si, O, ~10

[SIESTA-L] heaviness of OpticalCalculation

2011-03-21 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I'm working on a quite large system (Si, O, ~1000 atoms in total) and it relaxed quite well on 64 opteron cpus. At the end I wish to evaluate the optical absorption (epsimg) but it takes forever for this computation: could not complete in 24 hours. As far as I know this calculation shou

[SIESTA-L] inverse participation ratio

2011-03-11 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I wish calculate the inverse participation ratio on a generic system using siesta. here is the formula: http://img138.imageshack.us/i/ipr.png where "i" is the index of the volume element. Basically it gives a measure of the localization of the state n. What do you think is the best way

[SIESTA-L] [developers] inverse participation ratio

2011-03-09 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I wish calculate the inverse participation ratio on a generic system using siesta. here is the formula: http://img138.imageshack.us/i/ipr.png where "i" is the index of the volume element. What do you think is the best way to code such a thing? As a separate program or together with sie

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-08 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
med between occupied-unoccupied bands, and therefore at the end also "intraband" transitions become considered. Right? Roberto > Marton > > -- > PhD student > Department of Atomic Physics > Budapest University of Technology and Economics > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-08 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, noone of the developers is interested in such a fundamental issue? It may be a bug... RG On Mon 07 Mar 2011, you wrote: > Dear all, > > I repeated the calculation using a 2x2x2 grid (input file attached). The > result is the same. This is not surprising, since the problem is not > rela

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-07 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear all, I repeated the calculation using a 2x2x2 grid (input file attached). The result is the same. This is not surprising, since the problem is not related, in my opinion, to the calculation accuracy (also, the calculation at the gamma point should be reasonable for an amorphous system). I

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Karim, thank you for the suggestions, I'll try tomorrow and let you know. R In date 4/3/11 18:40:44, karim rezouali wrote: > Roberto, > > The band structure appears not to be totally correct. Seeing your input > file systlab.fdf, I realized that this curve is obtained under the gamma > point.ap

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi Andrei, I plotted only few bands at the band-edges: there was so many bands that the gap was barely visible, so I had to zoom the plot to measure it. In attachment the DOS plotted around the Fermi energy. R In date 4/3/11 16:00:14, apost...@uni-osnabrueck.de wrote: > > Indirect (band struc

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
owever it can provide trend > > in variation of band gap for different systems. > > > > Abhishek Sharma > > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Roberto Guerra > > > <mailto:robgue...@unimore.it>> wrote: > > Hello, > > > &g

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Indirect (band structure attached) R In date 4/3/11 15:23:46, karim rezouali wrote: > Dear, > > Is the material under study (ie, bulk amorphous silicon) has a direct > electronic gap or not? > > Karim > > > Hello, > > I calculated the band structure of bulk amorphous silicon (64 atoms > tet

Re: [SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
od to obtain band structure than always remember a > concept that DFT underestimate band gap, however it can provide trend in > variation of band gap for different systems. > > Abhishek Sharma > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Roberto Guerra wrote: > > Hello, > > >

[SIESTA-L] optical gap < band gap ??

2011-03-04 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hello, I calculated the band structure of bulk amorphous silicon (64 atoms tetrahedrically coordinated). I found an HOMO-LUMO band gap of about 0.7 eV. Then I performed the OpticalCalculation, but I have that the resulting imaginary dielectric function has a peak at E<0.7. How is this possible?

Re: [SIESTA-L] # of bands used in optical calculations

2010-10-28 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Ry --- > version reportnote > siesta-trunk-339 failedcygwin 1.7.5-1 + g95 > 0.92 serial compiling > siesta-3.0-bfailedcygwin 1.7.5-1 + > g95 0.92 serial compiling > siesta-3.0-rc

Re: [SIESTA-L] # of bands used in optical calculations

2010-10-28 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
On gio 28 ott 2010, kuilin lu wrote: > Dear Roberto, > > " WARNING: Minimum split_norm parameter: 0.07713. Will not be able to > generate orbital with split_norm = 0.07500 > > See manual for new split options" > > --> may I ask which Si.psf are you using?. Both Tests\Pseudos\Si.psf > and Exam

Re: [SIESTA-L] # of bands used in optical calculations

2010-10-27 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
wrote: > Dear Roberto Guerra, > > "Optical: Number of bands = 26" > --> are you running the Si example? The example has 2 Si atom > with DZP basis set. If you use DZP basis set, the maximum number of > possible band for the example is 26, since eac

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

2010-10-26 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear all, I solved using the cutting-planes feature of vmd (that nicely reads cube and xsf files) by defining six cutting planes from the lattice vectors. Here is the script I made for this purpose: #!/bin/bash if [ "$1" == "" ]; then LABEL="siesta" ; else LABEL="$1"; fi head -3 ${LABEL}.STRUCT

[SIESTA-L] # of bands used in optical calculations

2010-10-26 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi, I cannot find a way to increase the number of states involved in the calculation of the dielectric function: no matter on the input it says Optical: Number of bands = 26 I tried increasing MeshCutoff, NumberOfEigenStates, Optical.NumberOfBands, but it's stuck at 26. Any ideas

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

2010-10-22 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Dear Andrei, thank you very much for the reply. Below I commented the points you arised. In data 22/10/10 13:44:04, apost...@uni-osnabrueck.de ha scritto: > Dear Roberto, > it seems (please correct if I am wrong) that the cube format > is intended to describe finite system a priori, so there is >

[SIESTA-L] Denchar and non-cubic cells

2010-10-22 Por tôpico Roberto Guerra
Hi, I couldn't figure out how to generate the cube files within the boundaries defined by my lattice vectors: %block LatticeVectors 20.804198 -0.109425 -0.024170 -0.109478 20.785394 -0.082819 -0.024133 -0.083005 20.788121 %endblock LatticeVectors The system i