Re: [SIESTA-L] Why don't appear the electric density of Al in my simulation?

2015-05-05 Por tôpico Abraham Hmiel
Hello, I'm pretty sure that in your case, the electronic charge density is indeed printed volumetrically, but it's inside the radius of the aluminum atom in your molecular visualizer, which is opaque. So, you have some options: 1) reduce the radius of your atomic sphere models 2) lower the thresh

[SIESTA-L] Why transiesta jobs converge very fast (only 1 SCF cycle) when using a *.TSDE file generated at a lower bias

2015-01-11 Por tôpico Jingxian Yu
Dear All, After I conducted a transiesta job (Environment: Siesta_Trunk_462) on Au-molecule-Au junction at the bias of 0.00 V, it converged after 345 transiestaSCF iterations. So I set up a transiesta job for the same system at the bias of 0.05 V, using the *.TSDE file generated at the bias

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the force acting on chain so large?

2014-10-14 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear: recently I have done the transiesta calculation with gold material in electrode and scatter region. the system was taken from TS school ( http://dipc.ehu.es/frederiksen/tstutorial/index.php/Au-BDT) and I change scatter region with gold chain I discovered that the force acting on gold electro

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

2014-09-18 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear Riccardo : Have you ever done this kind of model? for electrode with a scatter region at center. if yes, how did you set MD.ConstantVolume=true MD.VariableCell=false?? ​since I want to get the .DM file for TranSiesta calculation. Thank you!​ -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與

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 joyce79928cc .
Dear Riccardo: 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! -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與工程學系碩一 MOBILE:0930287221

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 joyce79928cc .
Dear Riccardo: 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? thank you very much! -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與工程學系碩一

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

2014-09-17 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
It depends on a number of different parameters, like the number of k-points, for instance. The textbook answer is that you should run tests to find out the optimum number of cores for your problem. Having said that, if this is a Gamma point calcualtion and you have access to some "modern" co

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

2014-09-17 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear Riccardo: so according to my system (94 atoms) how many cores you will use to do the calculation? thanks for replying! -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與工程學系碩一 MOBILE:0930287221(中華) GMAIL:joyce79...@gmail.com 2014-09-17 15:38 GMT+08:00 Riccardo Rurali : > On 9/17/14 3:57

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] why this kind of model spent so much time on calculating?

2014-09-16 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear Riccardo: so in your case, when you do the calculation with DM.Tolerance 1E-3 and MD.MaxForceTol 0.04 eV/Ang. how many CPUs you use? thank you! -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與工程學系碩一 MOBILE:0930287221(中華) GMAIL:joyce79...@gmail.com 2014-09-16 16:55 GMT+08:00 Riccardo Ru

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear: And I want to ask another question. Should this model set MD.ConstantVolume=true MD.VariableCell=false?? Thank you Mads Engelund 於 2014年9月16日星期二寫道: > Dear Chiu, > > Your force tolerance is the maximum force you allow, so it depends how > accurate a relaxation you need. > The lower force

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear: And I have use a 32core CPU to calculate this model. But it shows no faster than two 8 core cpu What's the reason for this? Thank you! Mads Engelund 於 2014年9月16日星期二寫道: > Dear Chiu, > > I am mostly running on 8 cores myself. Not knowing the full details, I > think 2 days does not sound un

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico Mads Engelund
Dear Chiu, Your force tolerance is the maximum force you allow, so it depends how accurate a relaxation you need. The lower force tolerance you have, the more accurate your calculation have to be to calculate the forces. And as Ricardo pointed out, you can try first a less accurate relaxation,

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
dear: you mean I should set MD.MaxForceTol with a higher number like change from 0.04 to 0.1 eV/Ang? thanks! -- Best Regards 邱芳瑜 Chiu Fang Yu 國立成功大學 材料科學與工程學系碩一 MOBILE:0930287221(中華) GMAIL:joyce79...@gmail.com 2014-09-16 16:43 GMT+08:00 Mads Engelund : > Dear Chiu, > > I am mostly runnin

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico Riccardo Rurali
Hej Mads. On 9/16/14 10:43 AM, Mads Engelund wrote: I think DM.Tolerance 1E-3 is too high for relaxation if your force tolerance is below 0.1 eV/Ang. This will make things take longer, sorry. Not in my experience. I run all my Siesta relaxations with DM.Tolerance 1E-3. When convergence on for

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico Mads Engelund
Dear Chiu, I am mostly running on 8 cores myself. Not knowing the full details, I think 2 days does not sound unreasonable for the system you are showing. I think DM.Tolerance 1E-3 is too high for relaxation if your force tolerance is below 0.1 eV/Ang. This will make things take longer, sorry

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

2014-09-16 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear: I have my model and input file like attached. I have set the flags with KPOINTS: MonkhorstPack = 2,2,4 MD.ConstantVolume=T MD.VariableCell=F DM.MixingWeight 0.1 #default:0.25 DM.NumberPulay 10 # Pulay convergency accelerator DM.Tolerance 1E-3 # EDIFF ElectronicTemperature 400 K # Defaul

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare?

2014-08-23 Por tôpico sauluck
hi, it is not clear what you mean by lattice constants from different codes "comparing".one should only look at rough comparsions. as the 2 codes are different in terms of wave functions, psuedopotentails, # kpoints, methodology, etc ( there are too many variables), so do not expect lattice con

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare?

2014-08-22 Por tôpico Herbert Fruchtl
What is "very different"? 1-2% in the lattice constant are to be expected in a first attempt with different programs, pseudopotentials and basis sets, as somebody already mentioned. Looking at your FDF file, the K-points seem to be specified for a band structure calculation. For a bulk optimis

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare?

2014-08-22 Por tôpico Suman Chowdhury
Because they use different algorithm, different potential and different basis set. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:15 AM, joyce79928cc . wrote: > Dear: > > I have asked this similar question before. > why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare? > because I have use thi

[SIESTA-L] why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare?

2014-08-21 Por tôpico joyce79928cc .
Dear: I have asked this similar question before. why the result (lattice constant...etc.) of Siesta and Vasp can't compare? because I have use this two software to calculate the example provided by Siesta and also create the input file for Vasp. Though I have tried my best to set the same flag. bu

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine

2014-06-06 Por tôpico xu yuehua
ely. I > guess they may different. > > With best > > Guangping > 2014-06-05 > -- > -- > *发件人:*N H > *发送时间:*2014-06-05 23:04 > *主题:*Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input > in tw

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine

2014-06-05 Por tôpico zgp121
best Guangping 2014-06-05 发件人:N H 发送时间:2014-06-05 23:04 主题:Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine 收件人:"siesta-l" 抄送: Probably different compilation flags or whatever. In fact it does not mean anything. Try to calcul

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine

2014-06-05 Por tôpico xu yuehua
thank you for you reply. in fact, i have try two different systems, in the previous mail, i gave the total energy for one of the system in the different machines. later , i also calculate for antothe system, the results: siesta: Final energy (eV): siesta: Kinetic = 136533.147246 siesta:

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine

2014-06-05 Por tôpico N H
Probably different compilation flags or whatever. In fact it does not mean anything. Try to calculate energy differences between different systems and see if there is anything wrong. On Jun 5, 2014 11:00 PM, "xu yuehua" wrote: > > Hi : > > i want to compute the total energy for a fixed structure

[SIESTA-L] why the total energy is different for the same input in two different cluster machine

2014-06-05 Por tôpico xu yuehua
Hi : i want to compute the total energy for a fixed structure with siesta-2.0.2 and for some reason, i change the calculation from a cluster machine to another, the input file are the same. but i found the total energy in the two machines is so different : one cluster machine: siesta: Final e

Re: Fw: [SIESTA-L] why my running did stop.

2013-01-16 Por tôpico Mostafa Shabani
hi miss talebi. how can i ask my question like you from siesta mailing list i have problem with my fdf file.i register to mailing list but i can not see my questions and answer to them please help mr thanks. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Abraham Hmiel wrote: > I found the line, > > # MD.Num

Re: [SIESTA-L] why my running did stop.

2013-01-16 Por tôpico I. Camps
Your message is on the list now! Camps On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, Mostafa Shabani wrote: > hi miss talebi. > how can i ask my question like you from siesta mailing list > i have problem with my fdf file.i register to mailing list but i can not > see my questions and answer to them > please

Re: Fw: [SIESTA-L] why my running did stop.

2013-01-15 Por tôpico Abraham Hmiel
I found the line, # MD.NumCGsteps 550 # Number of CG steps for which is out-commented. (550 steps is very large, by the way! Try 20 or 30 at a time) Remove the '#' to perform a geometry relaxation. If you don't specify the number of steps, the computer will just assume "I am go

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-15 Por tôpico Eduardo Gracia
oler Para: Eduardo Gracia CC: "siesta-l@uam.es" Enviado: Jueves, 15 de noviembre, 2012 13:32:54 Asunto: Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Eduardo, I am a member of siesta's development team, but this answer is personal. As it has been mentioned, there are many reasons for an

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-15 Por tôpico Jose M. Soler
Eduardo, I am a member of siesta's development team, but this answer is personal. As it has been mentioned, there are many reasons for an open software approach in general, and particularly in academic research. As employees of public academic institutions, we are paid to advance science and techn

[SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-14 Por tôpico Tristana Sondon
Materials de Barcelona Campus de la UAB 08193 Bellaterra, Spain - Mensaje original - De: "Eduardo Gracia" Para: siesta-l@uam.es Enviados: Martes, 13 de Noviembre 2012 10:32:46 Asunto: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Hi, Certainly, Siesta is not fully free, I guess in a heal

[SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-13 Por tôpico Eduardo Gracia
of that I am completely grateful! Thanks for your comments, Eduardo De: CROCOMBETTE Jean-Paul 148490 Para: "pasia...@cnea.gov.ar" ; "siesta-l@uam.es" CC: Eduardo Gracia Enviado: Martes, 13 de noviembre, 2012 8:59:11 Asunto: RE : [SIE

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-12 Por tôpico R.C.Pasianot
- Original Message - From: "Eduardo Gracia" To: siesta-l@uam.es Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:35:16 AM Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? Hi everyone I've been working with Siesta and other codes since my PhD, now I recently start working in a full experimenta

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-12 Por tôpico Oswaldo Dieguez
Because the best things in life are free... Oswaldo - Original Message - > From: "Eduardo Gracia" > To: siesta-l@uam.es > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 8:35:16 AM > Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free? > Hi everyone > > > I've b

[SIESTA-L] Why Siesta is Free?

2012-11-12 Por tôpico Eduardo Gracia
Hi everyone I've been working with Siesta and other codes since my PhD, now I recently start working in a full experimental research team. They asked me which software I use, and as expected, they didn’t know about Siesta and other codes such as Abinit, lammps (mainly free codes), etc. Then an

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

2012-01-06 Por tôpico majid fathiyan
On 1/6/12, majid fathiyan wrote: > hi > can sent for me this paper ? > i can not download this paper because have not password and username. > thank from all. >

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

2012-01-06 Por tôpico majid fathiyan
hi can sent for me this paper ? i can not download this paper because have not password and username. thank from all.

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

2012-01-06 Por tôpico majid fathiyan
hi can sent for me this paper ? i can not download this paper because have not password and username. thank you from all.

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

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Barraza-Lopez,Salvador
onte" To: siesta-l@uam.es Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 9:10:38 AM Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] Why does not anyone answer the question? Hi Majid, I think it is always important to clarify what you already did to solve your problem by mentioning how it worked and where you got stuck. Si

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

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Nicolas Leconte
e 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 &

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

2012-01-05 Por tôpico Nicolas Leconte
e 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 &

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

2012-01-05 Por tôpico majid fathiyan
age - > From: "majid fathiyan" > To: siesta-l@uam.es > Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2012 1:36:53 PM > Subject: [SIESTA-L] Why does not anyone answer the question? > > ** *** ** *** > hi > How do I apply a magnetic field And also compute resistance , current

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 does not anyone answer the question?

2012-01-05 Por tôpico majid fathiyan
** *** ** *** hi How do I apply a magnetic field And also compute resistance , current and or Voltage by SIESTA code? i am studying effect GMR for Cu-Co Why does not anyone answer the question!!!? please help me thank you

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why I cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread?

2011-03-18 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
That is a particular thing to gmail, I think. When my email was the academic one, I used to get my replies. But I do get follow-ups as threads to my posts on the list. Marcos On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Alexander Vozny wrote: > I can only see the threads by others, and cann't see the thre

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why I cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread?

2011-03-18 Por tôpico Alexander Vozny
I can only see the threads by others, and cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread? Me too. Definitely do not see my replies. Not sure about follow ups.

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why I cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread?

2011-03-17 Por tôpico Kejie Zhao
I've found the same issue.. -Kejie On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:28 AM, wrote: > Dear Siesta masters, > > I can only see the threads by others, and cann't see the threads posted by me > and the follows-ups of that thread? > > Any hints on this issue? > > Regards. > -- > Hongsheng Zhao > School o

[SIESTA-L] Why I cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread?

2011-03-17 Por tôpico hongyi . zhao
Dear Siesta masters, I can only see the threads by others, and cann't see the threads posted by me and the follows-ups of that thread? Any hints on this issue? Regards. -- Hongsheng Zhao School of Physics and Electrical Information Science, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China Gnu

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

2011-03-06 Por tôpico leila
@uam.es 抄送: Riccardo Rurali 主题: Re: [SIESTA-L] Why LatticeConstant overwritten by SIESTA? Thanks a lot. Please see attached excerpt of out.fdf file. MD.UseStructFile F # Default value LatticeConstant 1.889726878 Bohr # Above item originally: LatticeConstant

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

2011-03-06 Por tôpico root
Thanks a lot. Please see attached excerpt of out.fdf file. MD.UseStructFile F # Default value LatticeConstant 1.889726878 Bohr # Above item originally: LatticeConstant 1.0 Ang >From above, it shows that SIESTA knows the unit I set is in Ang

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

[SIESTA-L] Why LatticeConstant overwritten by SIESTA?

2011-03-05 Por tôpico root
Hi all, I have set LatticeConstant parameter to 1 Ang in my simulation. But SIESTA overwrite my setting and set it to 1 Bohr during simulation. It is really irritating. Anyone know why this happens? Thanks a lot. Qun Gao.

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why oxygen atom has 2d orbital?

2011-02-08 Por tôpico Fen Hong
Dear all As Marcos mentioned that If an integration of the DOS up to the Fermi level in Siesta gives the total number of electrons

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why oxygen atom has 2d orbital?

2011-01-31 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Fen Hong wrote: > Dear Marcos > Thank you very much. > > what do you mean that "plot the complete PDOS and integrate it up to the > Fermi level". I think the integration is the total states up to the fermi > level not the number of electrons. > If I am not mista

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why oxygen atom has 2d orbital?

2011-01-31 Por tôpico Fen Hong
Dear Marcos Thank you very much. what do you mean that "plot the complete PDOS and integrate it up to the Fermi level". I think the integration is the total states up to the fermi level not the number of electrons. And I have to ask another question that how to distinguish orbitals. For example, 3

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why oxygen atom has 2d orbital?

2011-01-28 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
Fen, Regarding the first question, this is basic Fortran90 programming stuff. Check any good Fortran programming tutorial for how a record is constructed. Orbid is a record which contains the relevant information about each contribution to the PDOS in the file: n, l, m, zeta, spin, atom number in

[SIESTA-L] Why oxygen atom has 2d orbital?

2011-01-27 Por tôpico Fen Hong
Dear all, I tried to generate PDOS by psodxml program. There are several points that I can not understand. First, How to find the orbital that I am interested in. In the m_orbital_chooser.f90 there are explanation, what does orbid stand for? I tried but always failed, because I donot know the orb

[SIESTA-L] why the lowest transmission coefficient is not at 0ev ?

2010-11-17 Por tôpico Zhendong Guo
Dear all, I calculated the transport properties of pure garphene sheet without bias voltage, the transmission spectrum has been obtained, but the lowest point is not at 0 eV. I will send my input files to you, could you help me check it? Thank you in advance. In my input files , SZ has been

RE: [SIESTA-L] why the curve of Conductance-Energy of graphene sheet is not symmetrical?

2010-11-16 Por tôpico Shi Lihong
think your input file may be no problem. Therefore, I would like to know that why you use MP and Verlet? Lihong From: Zhendong Guo [mailto:zhendongguo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:08 PM To: siesta-l@uam.es Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] why the curve of Conductance-Energy of graphene

Re: [SIESTA-L] why the curve of Conductance-Energy of graphene sheet is not symmetrical?

2010-11-11 Por tôpico Zhendong Guo
s? > > > > Lihong > > > > *From:* Zhendong Guo [mailto:zhendongguo...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:17 PM > *To:* siesta-l@uam.es > *Subject:* [SIESTA-L] why the curve of Conductance-Energy of graphene > sheet is not symmetrical? > > > > He

RE: [SIESTA-L] why the curve of Conductance-Energy of graphene sheet is not symmetrical?

2010-11-10 Por tôpico Shi Lihong
Dear zhengdong: Why do you use occupation function is MP? And the MD.TypeOFRun is Verlet? Normally we use FD and CG for the two terms? Lihong From: Zhendong Guo [mailto:zhendongguo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:17 PM To: siesta-l@uam.es Subject: [SIESTA-L] why the curve

[SIESTA-L] Why the external electric field can't be applied when the I-V character is calculated using TRANSIESTA?

2010-05-19 Por tôpico 寇良志
Dear All I wan to have a look at the effect of external electric field on the transmission properties and current-voltage character. The calculation works well under zero-bias condition for an armchair nanoribbon with transversely applied electric field, but a warning message appears as followi

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico yoshi
> > Guangping Zhang > > > > 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br > 发送时间: 2010-05-11 00:31 > 主 题: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence > 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es > > > > Hi again, > > Once time, i tried to change this values

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico Kemal Bagci
Hello, Did any of you ever encounter a problem with the XML files? I am trying to reach the core of the problem and so far all fingers point at the Fox subroutines that deal with XML files. Any comments? Cheers, Kemal

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi again, Once time, i tried to change this values, but without results at convergence. My Solution was increase the scat region with electrode layers. The convergence is better with SZ and SZP basis. You can try use

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Thanks again. 2010-05-11 Guangping Zhang 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br 发送时间: 2010-05-11 00:31 主 题: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi again, Once time, i tried to change this values, but without results at convergence. My Solution was increase

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico yoshi
> > > > 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br > 发送时间: 2010-05-10 11:16 > 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence > 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es > > > > > Hi, > I don't understand in details the variable OccupationFunction too, but >

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Guangping Zhang 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br 发送时间: 2010-05-10 11:16 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi, I don't understand in details the variable OccupationFunction too, but there is reference in the manual. In page 55 of pdf siesta-

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-10 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
enought number of electrode layers. Thanks for your exchanging. 2010-05-10 Guangping Zhang 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br 发送时间: 2010-05-10 11:16 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi, I don't understand in details the variable OccupationFunction too

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear yoshi, Thank you very much! 2010-05-10 Guangping Zhang 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br 发送时间: 2010-05-10 11:16 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi, I don't understand in details the variable OccupationFunction too, but there is referen

Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico yoshi
4. It is not enought? Thanks ! 2010-05-09 Guangping Zhang 发件人: yo...@df.ufscar.br 发送时间: 2010-05-09 21:42 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es About this problem, You can include more electrode structures in scattering region. This should increase

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear Kemal Bagci, I think my installation is OK. So I think this is not the case as yours.For I can calculation others normally. Thanks. 2010-05-10 Guangping Zhang 发件人: Kemal Bagci 发送时间: 2010-05-10 00:08 主 题: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Kemal Bagci
Well, in my case, the problem happened when I was running a sample given to me by a friend. He has successfully ran and completed the execution, without any problems of neither reading the file nor convergence. Thus I was assuming it was a problem of my installation or something else. Any clues?

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
21:42 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es About this problem, You can include more electrode structures in scattering region. This should increase the convergence. There are two way to perform scf: OccupationFunction MP or the default

Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico yoshi
About this problem, You can include more electrode structures in scattering region. This should increase the convergence. There are two way to perform scf: OccupationFunction MP or the default OccupationFunction FD if you use the MP, you can use high temperatures, like 600-700. But bewa

Re: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear Kemal Bagci, This is the first time a encountered.I have a serial of systems which have a little difference.And the other systems are OK,but this system only. Thanks. 2010-05-09 Guangping Zhang 发件人: Kemal Bagci 发送时间: 2010-05-09 20:43 主 题: Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
. By the way, the electrode and the scatterin region calculation must use a same tempereture for electron smearing ? Thanks again. 2010-05-09 Guangping Zhang 发件人: Mehmet Topsakal 发送时间: 2010-05-09 18:44 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es If you

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Kemal Bagci
Dear Guanping Zhang, Let me get it straight. Are you saying that you get this error sometimes and not all the time? I have not made many trials myself, so it might as well be the case. Could you please check, when you get the error, do you also get an error saying 'the TSDM in file doesn't match'

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear bjnagare, I use 300K for electron smearing,and I try MixWeight from 0.25 to 0.02,it is no use. Thanks for your attention. 2010-05-09 Guangping Zhang 发件人: bjnagare 发送时间: 2010-05-09 18:48 主 题: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Dear sir

Re: Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hello everyone, I have encountered the same problem. My convergence numbers were much worse though. I believed that the problem had to do with reading the .TSHS file obtained from the electrode run, but I think it is deeper

Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico bjnagare
Dear sir, Before checking the convergence with increasing temperature, check it with reducing mixing parameter. Thanks On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Mehmet Topsakal < topsa...@unam.bilkent.edu.tr> wrote: > If you are using DZP, you may need to increase the tempereture to 600-700 > K. SZP usua

Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Mehmet Topsakal
If you are using DZP, you may need to increase the tempereture to 600-700 K. SZP usually converges at 300K. On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Kemal Bagci wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have encountered the same problem. My convergence numbers were much worse > though. > > I believed that the pro

Re: [SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Kemal Bagci
Hello everyone, I have encountered the same problem. My convergence numbers were much worse though. I believed that the problem had to do with reading the .TSHS file obtained from the electrode run, but I think it is deeper then that. If anyone had encountered a similar problem, let's exchange i

[SIESTA-L] why transiesta can not get convergence

2010-05-09 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear transiesta users: I have encountered a subtle convergence problem, even I use DM.MixingWeight 0.02 ,DM.NumberPulay 5.the siesta calculation can easy get convergence after 40 SCFs.But the transiesta *.TSDE .. The SCFs like following transiesta: TSiscf Eharris(eV) E_KS(eV) Free

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why need so many steps to find the stationary point in geometry optimization

2010-05-05 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
Guangping, The differences with respect to Gaussian results could com from pseudos and bases - if you could port both to your siesta calculation, then in principle with a suitable cutoff and a large enough cell you would have a structure which already relaxed. Unfortunately I don't know exactly ho

[SIESTA-L] Why need so many steps to find the stationary point in geometry optimization

2010-05-05 Por tôpico Guangping Zhang
Dear siesta users and developers: When I do a geometry optimization,even a small molecular about a dozen atoms,it needs more than one hundred steps to find the stationary point.It is the same even if I pre-optimized in Gaussion 03.My force convergence is 0.02eV/A,and the DM tolerance is 1.0d-4,M

Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle?

2010-04-22 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
*Wed, 4/21/10, Marcos Veríssimo Alves < > marcos.verissimo.al...@gmail.com>* wrote: > > > From: Marcos Veríssimo Alves > Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle? > To: siesta-l@uam.es > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:22 PM > > > Mahshid, &

Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle?

2010-04-22 Por tôpico mahshid hezary
vergence!?   Regards, Mahshid --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Marcos Veríssimo Alves wrote: From: Marcos Veríssimo Alves Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle? To: siesta-l@uam.es Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:22 PM Mahshid, Two things. First, quite basic: what do you m

Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle?

2010-04-21 Por tôpico Michael Shin
doesn't look like particles. Thank you in advance. Mic.   --- On Wed, 4/21/10, mahshid hezary wrote: From: mahshid hezary Subject: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle? To: "siesta" Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:46 AM Hi Dear User I want to calcula

Re: [SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle?

2010-04-21 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
Mahshid, Two things. First, quite basic: what do you mean by "does not converge"? Can you give more detail on that? Second, for you to try. Oxygen is an element with a pseudo that can be quite hard. I am not sure what a good cutoff would be for O, but I'd guess 150 would be the bare minimum. Try

[SIESTA-L] why SCF does not converge in nanoparticle?

2010-04-21 Por tôpico mahshid hezary
Hi Dear User I want to calculate nanoparticle properties of ZnO with siesta. but SCF does not converge.for more discription my fdf is below. why SCF does not converge? Best Regards. Mahshid SystemLabel  ZnO NumberOfAtoms    72 NumberOfSpecies  2 %block ChemicalSpeciesLabel     1   30  Zn   

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Etot does not converge relative to vacuum space? (slab calculation)

2010-04-18 Por tôpico Руслан Жачук
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Руслан Жачук wrote: > >> I use Siesta-2.0.2. I need to calculate surface formation energy very >> precise. >> But these fluctuations produce errors well below 0.1 meV/Ang2 so I am >> satisfied. >> > > You mean per atom? Because, in absolute values, you have 0.5 m

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Etot does not converge relative to vacuum space? (slab calculation)

2010-04-18 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
ÿ On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Руслан Жачук wrote: > I use Siesta-2.0.2. I need to calculate surface formation energy very > precise. > But these fluctuations produce errors well below 0.1 meV/Ang2 so I am > satisfied. > You mean per atom? Because, in absolute values, you have 0.5 meV/Ang.

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Etot does not converge relative to vacuum space? (slab calculation)

2010-04-18 Por tôpico Руслан Жачук
I use Siesta-2.0.2. I need to calculate surface formation energy very precise. But these fluctuations produce errors well below 0.1 meV/Ang2 so I am satisfied. I will try to increase cutoff and follow how the numerical noise change, just for curiosity. >From the graph I posted the calculation is co

Re: [SIESTA-L] Why Etot does not converge relative to vacuum space? (slab calculation)

2010-04-18 Por tôpico Marcos Veríssimo Alves
Ruslan, This is already off the limits of DFT precision... I'd say it's just numerical noise. If the fluctuations were much larger (say, of the order of a few tens of eV), then I might be tempted to wonder about it. I would say your calculation is already very well converged at about 70-80 Angstro

[SIESTA-L] Why Etot does not converge relative to vacuum space? (slab calculation)

2010-04-18 Por tôpico Руслан Жачук
Dear Siesta users, I study silicon slab, centrosymmetric (no hydrogen). Thickness is about 15 Ang. Now I want to find such vacuum space that Etot is converged. But it converges until a value of about Etot=-9252.4480 (at Hvac=10 Ang), but with further increase of vacuum space Etot increase/decrea

RE: [SIESTA-L] WHY?

2010-03-23 Por tôpico a.s. shalabi
, P.O.Box 13518, Egypt. Phone : +20 2 24188 738 Mobile : +20 10 5211 681 > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:57:52 +0100 > From: jose.torres.alo...@uam.es > To: siesta-l@uam.es > Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] WHY? > > Dear Prof.Dr. A.S.Shalabi: > > According to our records, your applic

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