[Wien] kgen -so and case.klist_band

2017-07-25 Thread fatima DFT
Dear Wien2k Users, I am doing -SO calculation to calculate the optical properties. In UG unser point number 9.1 it is mentioned that "Since SO may break symmetry in certain space groups". I run scf with 6x6x6 mesh and for electronic and optical properties I want to increases the k-mesh. Should I u

Re: [Wien] experimental vs relaxed parameters using wien2k

2017-07-25 Thread Chouaib AHMANI FERDI
Thank you for your response. If experimental data is available, I believe from what it has been said it is better to use them, otherwise, one have to perform optimization. I did one myself on ZnFe2O4 and found a value of the cubic lattice parameter "a" not so close to experiment. also the interna

Re: [Wien] experimental vs relaxed parameters using wien2k

2017-07-25 Thread Laurence Marks
Differences between DFT lattice parameters and experiment are well known, although smaller (as you have) is less common. (Maybe because you did not use +U). For "better" results, there are many methods one common being PBEsol. There is a large literature on this. Of course, whether this is really

Re: [Wien] experimental vs relaxed parameters using wien2k

2017-07-25 Thread Fecher, Gerhard
What better result do you expect ? The Pearson data base has 99 entries for the same structure of ZnFe2O4 (as well as some others) the lattice parameter spreads from 8.1758 to 8.5186 A with a mean of 8.42 +- 0.06 A (some are most probably for different temperatures) the free u parameter is rep

[Wien] vectorized math functions with GCC (to speedup lapw1)

2017-07-25 Thread Pavel Ondračka
Dear Wien2k mailing list, just thought I would share this, maybe someone can also benefit. It has been brought up few times that the reason why the gfortran + OpenBLAS are slower that ifort + MKL is the inability of the GNU compiler stack to vectorize the math functions as opposed to the Intel co

Re: [Wien] experimental vs relaxed parameters using wien2k

2017-07-25 Thread Tristan de Boer
You can find many papers that use either approach. I considered this somewhat tangentially in a paper on several semiconductor polymorphs that were synthesized under different pressures. [1] We collected x-ray absorption and emission spectra on thee polymorphs, and compared our spectra to those