[Pw_forum] slab with dispersion force and rgen error

2016-07-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I running a full optimization calculation with on the nickel 111 surface slab and accounting for dispersion correction. When the job starts running, i get the error below: -- Error in routine rgen (3): too many r-vectors

[Pw_forum] Restarting a Job

2016-07-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I run a full geometry optimization calculation job on an fcc nickel (111) surface slab(comprising 96 atoms) which run for 24 hours (Jobs are allowed to run for only for 24 hrs after which you would have to re-login to resubmit the job: restart_mode = 'restart' ) without converging

[Pw_forum] Layer Relaxation: Adsorption Phenomenon

2016-06-04 Thread Elliot Menkah
Dear all, I've noticed from literature that in modeling adsorption phenomenon, most researchers fix the lower portions of the slab in use whiles allowing, usually the three(3) layers, to relax. Is there any experimental and theoretical physics that serves as a guidance to that or its merely a

Re: [Pw_forum] Pw_forum Digest, Vol 107, Issue 1

2016-06-02 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Giovanni, You're right, I miscalculated the value for total_magnetization. I used that of the slab(48 atoms: tot_magnetization=96) for the bulk(4 atoms: which should have had a tot_magnetization of 8). I got the system to converge though with are a gaussian smearing at 0.01 Ry with

[Pw_forum] Job not converging

2016-05-31 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I'm relaxing a ni-slab of 48 atoms and it not converging with the default electron_maxstep of 100. I increased it to 500 and its still not converging. I then decided to change my smearing from mp to gaussian at a degauss of 0.05 with tot_magnetization of 96 on the basic unit, the

[Pw_forum] revPBE and PBE functional

2016-05-25 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, Where on the pseudopotential page on the quantum espresso site can I find revPBE functional for Ni. I've search and I'm not finding it. May be I'm not searching well. Would be glad if someone could point me in the right direction. Can anyone please enlighten me on the difference

[Pw_forum] London Dispersion force: DFT-D2

2016-05-02 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi all, I'm trying to account for the energy contribution of London dispersion forces on the total energy of a hydrazine-nickel system. Could someone please assist me as to how to account for London dispersion forces with QE or essentially how to do a DFT-D2 calculation with the the aim of

[Pw_forum] Net Surface dipole

2016-01-27 Thread Elliot Menkah
Dear All, How does one know or can one tell from the content of the output file of a full geometry optimization calculation (relax) that there's a net surface dipole density in an asymmetric system for adsorption studies. For eg. CO adsorbed on only one side of a nickel slab. Thank you. Kind

[Pw_forum] High adsorption energies: CO on Ni-111

2015-12-13 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, In trying to validate the computational methods and configuration of my system for a desired study, the adsorption energies I obtained upon computation seems to be about twice the value of what i was expecting. This is adsorption of CO on nickel surface sites on Ni-111 surface

Re: [Pw_forum] Changing Kinetic Energy cut-off

2015-07-06 Thread Elliot Menkah
properties with respect to > ecutwfc/ecutrho strongly depends on the pseudo potential. So: which > elements you are dealing with? Which type of pseudo potentials? Norm > conserving or ultrasoft? In any case tests would be needed. Giovanni >> > On 06 Jul 2015, at 00:22, Elliot Me

[Pw_forum] Changing Kinetic Energy cut-off

2015-07-05 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, How does or to what extent does changing your ecut along with ecutrho affect evaluation of results from computations? For instance if you used 60Ry to compute 'delta H' for reactants and you use 40Ry to compute 'delta H' for products. Reduction to 40 Ry was because some jobs with

Re: [Pw_forum] Calculation not converging (Ari Paavo Seitsonen)

2015-03-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
On 03/30/2015 10:00 AM, pw_forum-requ...@pwscf.org wrote: > Re: Calculation not converging (Ari Paavo Seitsonen) Thank you Ari but what bell does " total magnetization =20.00 Bohr mag/cell" ring? Any lead information please, Thank you very much. I appreciate your help. --

[Pw_forum] Calculation not converging

2015-03-29 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi Everyone, I run a full relaxation calculation of a reconstructed cell of a 2x2 super-cell 6-atomic layer Ni-110 surface and it did not converge. I then increased the nstep to 100 and the electron_maxstep to 150 but still did not converge. How can I achieve convergence with the input

[Pw_forum] Vacuum Potential error

2014-12-23 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello everyone, I'm tryint ot calculate the work function of a metal slab and I successful did that on a 100 facet of the respective metal. But I'm getting an error when I run pp.x computation on a 110 facet system. When I run pp.x, I run into the error below:

Re: [Pw_forum] Computing Vacuum potential

2014-12-23 Thread Elliot Menkah
5.1/PP/examples/WorkFct_example > to obtain the slab work function? Remember that the results contained > in the average.x output are in Ry a.u. > HTH > Giuseppe > > Giuseppe Mattioli > ISM-CNR > Italy > > Quoting Elliot Menkah <elliotsmen...@yahoo.com>: >

[Pw_forum] Computing Vacuum potential

2014-12-19 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to calculate the work function of a pure slab as such I'm computing for the vacuum potential. When I run my scf calculation and compute the vacuum potential, I get very small values for the vacuum potential. I get a vacuum potential of about 0.8 eV and a fermi energy of

[Pw_forum] Help with QE compilation

2014-11-25 Thread Elliot Menkah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, I've compiled a parallel version of QE-5.0.2 on a quad-core workstation along with other dependencies such as openmpi-1.8.1 and fft-3.3.4 but when i run my calculations with it, I seem not to get the optimized computing power and

Re: [Pw_forum] Non Convergence

2014-11-08 Thread Elliot Menkah
better for slabs), > a smaller mixing_beta (0.1), a larger degauss (0.05) and a > denser k-point grid (8 8 1) that should yield smoother results, > and it converges, at least for the reduced cutoff (30/300) > I tried. > > Paolo > > > Try > On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 15:41

[Pw_forum] Non Convergence

2014-11-05 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I'm running a geometry optimization calculation(relax) of an 11-layer Nickel slab and I used the deafult nstep (nstep=50) and electron_maxstep (100). My system did not converge with the parameters and configurations set as it run through 100 iterations. Could there be something

Re: [Pw_forum] best pseudo for Ni in b-NiOOH

2014-10-27 Thread Elliot Menkah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Francesca, - From my experience, you would have to test them by using them to compute basics properties such as lattice parameter, bulk, modulus, etc. and that would help you make an informed decision on that. Kind Regards, Elliot. NB:

Re: [Pw_forum] LDA, PBE and PBEsol and Cohesive energy

2014-10-25 Thread Elliot Menkah
Ang to the XYZ Cell parameters and the single atom sits >> in a corner whiles I expect it to sit some where in the middle. > Why? You asked to put it in the corner... > > ATOMIC_POSITIONS {alat} > Ni1 0.0 0.0 0.0 > > HTH > Giuseppe >

Re: [Pw_forum] LDA, PBE and PBEsol and Cohesive energy

2014-10-25 Thread Elliot Menkah
doesn't make sense, > since you want the unit cell to remain large (and, for the same reason, > you do not need k-point sampling - so use gamma only sampling). > > Maybe worth looking at homework 1 and 2 and the first few lectures of: > ocw.mit.edu/3-320S05 > > >

[Pw_forum] LDA, PBE and PBEsol and Cohesive energy

2014-10-23 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello everyone, Problem 1 --- I'm computing for lattice constant and comparing the employment of exchange correlation ultra-soft pp such as LDA, PBE and PBEsol. I know LDA would underestimate the lattice parameter, PBE would overestimate it but PBEsol should do

Re: [Pw_forum] VC-Relax taking too long on a 4-atom system

2014-10-22 Thread Elliot Menkah
t; Department of Physics ยท University of Extremadura > Avda. de Elvas, s/n 06006 Badajoz (Spain) > Phone: +34 924 28 96 55 > Fax: +34 924 28 96 51 > Email: melen...@unex.es > Web: http://materiales.unex.es/miembros/personal/jj-melendez/Index.html > > > > -Mensaje orig

Re: [Pw_forum] VC-Relax taking too long on a 4-atom system

2014-10-22 Thread Elliot Menkah
f.org [pw_forum-boun...@pwscf.org] on behalf of Elliot Menkah [elliotsmen...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:04 PM > To: pw_forum@pwscf.org > Subject: [Pw_forum] VC-Relax taking too long on a 4-atom system > > Hi Everyone, > I'm trying to determine a lattice par

[Pw_forum] VC-Relax taking too long on a 4-atom system

2014-10-22 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to determine a lattice parameter in a study and I'm running a vc-relax calculation. It's just a 4-atom bulk ferromagnetic nickel system yet my calculation has been running for over 5hrs already on a 16 core resource. It's presently on ' iteration #*** ' Is there anything

[Pw_forum] VC-Relax taking too long on a 4-atom system

2014-10-22 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to determine a lattice parameter in a study and I'm running a vc-relax calculation. It's just a 4-atom bulk ferromagnetic nickel system yet my calculation has been running for over 5hrs already on a 16 core resource. It's presently on ' iteration #*** ' Is there anything

[Pw_forum] Problem with parallel QE-5.0.2 on workstation

2014-09-12 Thread Elliot Menkah
the MPI library, > that is included in file Modules/parallel_include.f90. Your > mpi-aware compiler should take care of it > > P. > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:15 -0400, Elliot Menkah wrote: >> Hi Everyone, >> I'm trying to compile a parallel version of Quantum Espresso(QE)

[Pw_forum] Problem with parallel QE-5.0.2 on workstation

2014-09-10 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to compile a parallel version of Quantum Espresso(QE) version 5.0.2 on the my i7 laptop and also later do that on quad core desktops. I already know how to compile it in its serial form but I want it in parallel so I read around and followed a few posts but I have some

[Pw_forum] Conergence Delay

2014-05-17 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I have this relax calculation running on 16 cores. Its been running for the past 73 days. Below is the status of the job when i open the output file. Can anyone please help me understand the interpretation as to when it would converge. Especially the non-human-readable iteration

[Pw_forum] Pseudopotential combination

2014-05-17 Thread Elliot Menkah
Thank you Axel. On 05/17/2014 02:46 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Elliot Menkah > mailto:elliotsmenkah at yahoo.com>> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I'm making an adsorption study of carbon monoxide(CO) on pure >

[Pw_forum] Pseudopotential combination

2014-05-17 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I'm making an adsorption study of carbon monoxide(CO) on pure nickel(Ni) surfaces. I use the pseudopotential Ni.pbe-nd-rrkjus.UPF to optimized the pure nickel system. Is it wrong to use C.pbe-van_ak.UPF for carbon and O.pbe-van_ak.UPF for the oxygen rather than using

[Pw_forum] Pseudopotential combination

2014-05-16 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Everyone, I'm making an adsorption study of carbon monoxide(CO) on pure nickel(Ni) surfaces. I use the pseudopotential Ni.pbe-nd-rrkjus.UPF to optimized the pure nickel system. Is it wrong to use C.pbe-van_ak.UPF for carbon and O.pbe-van_ak.UPF for the oxygen rather than using

[Pw_forum] regarding xcrysden and QE INPUT FILE

2014-03-01 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello kulwinder, Can you post the content of your input file please? Thank you. Regards, Elliot. On 03/01/2014 07:26 AM, kulwinder kaur wrote: > hello xcrysden and QE user > > my input file of QE is not open with xcrysden. when i open my input > file with xcrysden the following error occur

[Pw_forum] Geometry optimization generates same coordinates

2014-01-31 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Julia, The outcome of your calculations could mean two possible things: 1. The atomic positions are in the best spatial locations you can get. As in they are already optimized. 2. The version 5.0.3 of Q.E is having a problem, so you might want to try other stable versions. Usually the

[Pw_forum] PARA_PREFIX AND PARA_IMAGE_POSTFIX

2014-01-17 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello, I'm working with a cluster with a total of 128 cores and I want to run a job(relax calculation) with pw.x using 64 cores. I'm a bit baffled with the number of processors to set for PARA_IMAGE_PREFIX since it should be a product of number of processors in PARA_PREFIX and the number of

[Pw_forum] Authenticating the miller indices of two slab surfaces.

2013-12-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello, This is a follow up of the question of one I asked earlier Subjected:*Orienting Nickel 111-P(3x3) slab surface*. How do you tell that two slabs are of the same miller indices without having to consider the orientation. Is there a way to tell if a particular slab surface has the same

[Pw_forum] Orienting Nickel 111-P(3x3) slab surface

2013-12-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello, I have a slab surface of nickel 111 with the cubic crystal cell slanted. nickel-111-3x3surf.png Can i make it sit straight? I want to orient it to sit straight. How do i do that please? Thank you. Happy Holidays Thank you. -- Elliot S. Menkah Research Student - Computational

[Pw_forum] Running jobs with Script on a cluster

2013-12-30 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello Masoud, Thank you for the information. I did try it but it didn't really work as expected. ( still giving me Errors) Thank you Kind Regards, Elliot. On 12/28/2013 08:35 AM, Masoud Nahali wrote: > Elliot wrote: > > Hello, > Can someone please help me incorporate my prepared

[Pw_forum] Running jobs with Script on a cluster

2013-12-27 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hello, Can someone please help me incorporate my prepared job to be ran on a cluster into the script(run_example) that is used to ran Quantum Espresso calculations on a cluster. I'm working with a 128 core cluster and I would like to use 8 cores. I have define my pseudopotential directory path

[Pw_forum] Data from plot or curve

2013-12-17 Thread Elliot Menkah
Dear Julen, Thank you very much. I have checked out the link and and site. but i don't seem to really understand the scripting that has gone in there since I'm not familiar with python. I'm ready for you to run me through a step-wise process if you do not mind. Thanks a lot. Regards,

[Pw_forum] RE : Lattice Parameter too low from experimentally determined. (3.42 ~ 3.52)

2013-12-03 Thread Elliot Menkah
at hotmail.com webpage: http://archive.knust.edu.gh/pages/sections.php?siteid=chemistry=806=2754 On 12/03/2013 04:07 PM, Paolo Giannozzi wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 15:30 +0000, Elliot Menkah wrote: > >> Can you please advice me on which of the various pseudo-potentials

[Pw_forum] RE : Lattice Parameter too low from experimentally determined. (3.42 ~ 3.52)

2013-12-03 Thread Elliot Menkah
> De : pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org [pw_forum-bounces at pwscf.org] de la part > de Elliot Menkah [elliotsmenkah at yahoo.com] > Date d'envoi : mardi 3 d?cembre 2013 13:04 > ? : pw_forum at pwscf.org > Objet : [Pw_forum] Lattice Parameter too low from experimentally determined. &

[Pw_forum] Lattice Parameter too low from experimentally determined. (3.42 ~ 3.52)

2013-12-03 Thread Elliot Menkah
Hi all, I'm determining the lattice parameter of Nickel and my convergence test is giving me 3.42 Angstroms against and experimentally determined 3.52. Previous calculations by other people are showing 3.49 and 3.52 Angstroms as again. What could be wrong with my parameters or calculations.