[QE-users] LDA+U U value calculation

2019-10-22 Thread Leo Yang
Dear QE users,   I am using QE-6.4.1. I need to apply LDA+U to the eigenvalue calculation of the transition metal oxide(Mo8O26). There is parameter Hubbard_alpha used for calculate the U value. But I don't know the detailed procedures to obtain U value. It will be very appreciated if someone c

Re: [QE-users] LDA+U U value calculation

2019-10-22 Thread Timrov Iurii
Dear Yang Zhou, Using Hubbard_alpha with supercells is computationally expensive and requires some additional postprocessing calculations. This linear-response approach has been recently reformulated using density functional perturbation theory (both methods give the same value of U): Phys. Re

Re: [QE-users] band convergece problem in charged system

2019-10-22 Thread Thomas Brumme
Dear Yang, I have no clue how the Martyna-Tuckerman correction works but usually one has problems with systems having such a large total charge since the total cell needs to be neutral. Some terms are in fact calculated for a charge neutral system resulting in a total potential which has a curva

[QE-users] High k-point density memory estimates

2019-10-22 Thread Eric Glen Suter
Hi all, I'm running jobs with a relatively high number of kpoints with QE 6.2. For a while I was using the dynamical memory estimates output by the pw.x executable as a guidepost for requesting memory on a cluster, and this worked well when I had a relatively small number of kpoints. But it tur

Re: [QE-users] High k-point density memory estimates

2019-10-22 Thread Paolo Giannozzi
The memory usage is very hard to estimate in general. Morever it depends upon a number of factors. Old versions for instance used to keep by default a single set of wavefunctions for one k-point, store those for the other k-points to disk. Since some time the default is to keep wavefunctions for al