Re: [Wien] confusion regarding band structure of Graphene

2022-12-30 Thread xavier rocquefelte
V (with respect to Li cathode) which matches perfectly with the experimental report. Looking forward to your further advice Sir. with regards, On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 at 21:01, xavier rocquefelte wrote: One more point the negative electrode is usually graphite and not graphene.

Re: [Wien] confusion regarding band structure of Graphene

2022-12-30 Thread xavier rocquefelte
30/12/2022 16:26, xavier rocquefelte wrote: Dear Shamik I certainly did not follow all the discussion but it seems to me that your objective is reachable if you properly define your parameters. You mention that the band structure is finally not the essential point and you want to have a

Re: [Wien] confusion regarding band structure of Graphene

2022-12-30 Thread xavier rocquefelte
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Re: [Wien] Spin-polarized state not really spin-polarized

2022-10-30 Thread xavier rocquefelte
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Re: [Wien] Question about WIEN2k and paramagnetic system

2022-05-19 Thread xavier rocquefelte
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Re: [Wien] A basic question regarding using GGA+U approach

2022-02-11 Thread xavier rocquefelte
ding various more or less empirical "tricks". Eventually, you may try a meta-GGA ., but this is probably also not very good. Best regards Peter Blaha Am 2/11/22 um 08:19 schrieb xavier rocquefelte: Dear Shamik, To my point of view using the strategy (1) is not correct. I un

Re: [Wien] How to find the exact value of infinte epsilon?

2021-11-29 Thread xavier rocquefelte
Dear Atefe Marasi, Infinite epsilon means that you extrapolate the epsilon value for the zero of energy. You must plot the real part of the dielectric function to properly estimate this value. You must be careful because if you have a band gap and a bad description of the gap value ... the

Re: [Wien] EECE with orbc

2021-02-15 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Gyorgi www.numis.northwestern.edu <http://www.numis.northwestern.edu> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 01:03 Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: Dear Colleagues, We are doing EECE calculations

[Wien] EECE with orbc

2021-02-15 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Colleagues, We are doing EECE calculations and we want to constrain the electronic configuration of Eu. It is possible to do it using DFT+U and -orbc option. Do you know if we can do similar calculations using EECE? We look at runsp and we found the use of .forcedmat and .forceorb. Co

Re: [Wien] How to start ferromagnetic calculation

2020-07-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
1. You cannot simulate paramagnetism using DFT. Indeed, you need to go beyond in order to take into account the effect of temperature on the dynamical disorder of the magnetic moments. Using DFT you will have access to a static picture, which is OK if you want to simulate: - a non-magnetic sta

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
e Peter knows. From: Wien mailto:wien-boun...@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> on behalf of Xavier Rocquefelte mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 9:28 AM To: wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:wien@zeus.theochem.t

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
s with your cif file? *From:* Wien on behalf of Xavier Rocquefelte *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2020 9:13 AM *To:* wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at *Subject:* Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn Dear Fabien This is strange... Perhaps a conversion problem. Yes I have used the

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Indeed, I used the one from VESTA! Yesteray night I was working in parallel ;) Here is the file I previously sent with modification by hand ... the cif format was not totally supported by cif2struct. Regards Xavier ) 2020 by FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure.

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
ruct, I get "unknown space group name: I41/amds" and no struct file is generated. Did cif2struct​ work for you? *From:* Wien on behalf of Xavier Rocquefelte *Sent:* Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:54

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Shamik I will do as I do with my colleagues who are learning how to use WIEN2k ;) Use the cif file I previously sent. If you directory is named Beta-Sn, rename the cif file Beta-Sn.cif. Then use cif2struct in this way: cif2struct Beta-Sn.cif. It will generate Beta-Sn.struct Then initi

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
/06/2020 à 23:54, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Dear Fabien, I explained to Shamik that the structure he was using was not correct. I also sent cif and struct file. See below a proper case.struct file. Shamik could you please send email only to the wienlist to avoid multiple answers from the list

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Fabien, I explained to Shamik that the structure he was using was not correct. I also sent cif and struct file. See below a proper case.struct file. Shamik could you please send email only to the wienlist to avoid multiple answers from the list and many people trying to help you without

Re: [Wien] Structure optimization of Beta -Sn

2020-06-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Your structure file seems to be not correct! You should have only one inequivalent position and the space group is I 41/a m d. Here is the structure: http://som.web.cmu.edu/structures/S018-beta-Sn.html Le 03/06/2020 à 20:40, shamik chakrabarti a écrit : Dear Dr. Tran,                   I

Re: [Wien] Aligning magnetization direction along high symmetry crystallographic direction

2020-05-19 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
And another comment. Applying the magnetization along a high symmetry direction does not mean that you will apply SOC in the direction for which the effect will be maximum... It is why, people study the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE). Best regards Xavier Le 20/05/2020 à 08:07, Pe

Re: [Wien] MBJ fails to produce gap unto 0.6 for VO2 M1 phase

2020-05-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
B 86, 075149 (2012) Thanks Wasim On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:02 AM Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: Dear Wasim, In VO2, vanadium is 4+ and thus we expect one electron in V(3d) states, thus a gap based on d-d transitions. MBJ alo

Re: [Wien] MBJ fails to produce gap unto 0.6 for VO2 M1 phase

2020-05-12 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
 : Dear All,             Sorry for my email. MBJ works for this material also. Please see the reference if anybody interested: PHYSICAL REVIEW B 86, 075149 (2012) Thanks Wasim On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:02 AM Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote:

Re: [Wien] MBJ fails to produce gap unto 0.6 for VO2 M1 phase

2020-05-11 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Wasim, In VO2, vanadium is 4+ and thus we expect one electron in V(3d) states, thus a gap based on d-d transitions. MBJ alone is not expected to open the gap. You will need to put a Hubbard term at least. I recommend you to read the following article which deals with DFT+DMFT and M1 p

Re: [Wien] LDA vs GGA

2020-04-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
LDA for U values I have suggested. शुक्र, 10 अप्रैल 2020, 15:37 को Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> ने लिखा: One more comment, LDA+U (+SOC) will be better than everything in a DFT level, because of iridium. Le 10/04/2020 à 12:02, Xavier Rocq

Re: [Wien] LDA vs GGA

2020-04-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
One more comment, LDA+U (+SOC) will be better than everything in a DFT level, because of iridium. Le 10/04/2020 à 12:02, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : I really recommend to look carefully at the litterature of this system. Using mbj or hybrid will work but for what? In addition, the states

Re: [Wien] LDA vs GGA

2020-04-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
atest/ http://hauleweb.rutgers.edu/tutorials/ On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:46 AM Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: For such a system DFT is not sufficient. You must use DMFT. In addition, you should include spin-orbit coupling. It

Re: [Wien] LDA vs GGA

2020-04-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
For such a system DFT is not sufficient. You must use DMFT. In addition, you should include spin-orbit coupling. It is thus a very difficult situation because DMFT+SOC is not trivial at all. Cheers Xavier Le 10/04/2020 à 11:39, Amit Chauhan ph17d008 a écrit : Dear All: I am working on a

Re: [Wien] A basic question

2020-02-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Shamik, We can answer your question in many ways. First of all, DFT is a theory of ground state properties. We thus do not expect good simulations of excited states properties! However, we are commonly using DFT to reproduce excited states properties (optical, magnetic ...), while we mu

Re: [Wien] Beween non spin polarized and spin polarized calculations

2019-11-22 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
I am working on similar compounds but not with Mn. I would recommend to use PBE+U or PBE0 on-site hybrid. In the first case (PBE+U) you must define an appropriate value for Ueff of Mn-3d states. In the second case, use alpha = 0.25 for only M-3d states. It should be a not to bad approximatio

Re: [Wien] Beween non spin polarized and spin polarized calculations

2019-11-22 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
e then 200 iterations never get convegence ??? > > Le jeudi 21 novembre 2019 à 18:27:12 UTC+1, Xavier Rocquefelte > <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> a écrit : > > > If you want our help we need to have details about your system. > > Then we can advice you

Re: [Wien] Beween non spin polarized and spin polarized calculations

2019-11-21 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
ybrid  functionel but the process did not converged after more than 200 iteration ?? can you Suggests me solutio Le jeudi 21 novembre 2019 à 16:51:45 UTC+1, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Hummm ... Here are many options ... choose the one you like ;) 1/ You consider the importance to have hybrid function

Re: [Wien] Beween non spin polarized and spin polarized calculations

2019-11-21 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Hummm ... Here are many options ... choose the one you like ;) 1/ You consider the importance to have hybrid functional to properly describe the atomic structure. If not, optimize using regular DFT and then estimate the property of interest with hybrid functional using to optimized structure i

Re: [Wien] Beween non spin polarized and spin polarized calculations

2019-11-17 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
I recommend you the following article: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.047201 Bulk gold is diamagnetic and it exhibits a tiny Pauli and Orbital paramagnetic state. Pauli paramagnetism is due to the non-zero density at the Fermi level (metal) and the orbital para

Re: [Wien] Error while treating Sm 4f states as core

2019-10-20 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Anup, The method you want to use is an "old" one which is now not anymore used, except if you really have no other choice. It is preferred to use an Hubbard (or an on-site hybrid) correction which will allow to correct the DFT error concerning the treatment of the 4f states of Sm. I r

Re: [Wien] Regarding Relaxation calculation

2019-05-29 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
See the WIEN2k userguide at pages 177, 178 ... One can constrain individual positions incase.inMor define linear constrains for several po-sitions  usingcase.constraint(thanks to  B.Yanchitsky  (Kiev,  y...@imag.kiev.ua);  for  detailssee comments in the SRCtemplates/template.constraint file).

Re: [Wien] Layer and orbital resolved MAE contribution

2019-05-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
You can use a trick consisting to replace part of the magnetic atoms by non-magnetic atoms (having similar radii). For instance, Zinc for copper ... It works really nicely and a way to check the consistency is to do the sum of the individual contributions and see if you recover the total signa

Re: [Wien] Augmented Plane Wave

2019-03-21 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Pablo, My understanding is that you have a mixed basis set, with plane wave outside the atomic spheres which are augmented by atomic functions inside the sphere. You have a good explanation in the David Singh book but also in the WIEN2k userguide I believe. Best Regards, Xavier Le 22

Re: [Wien] problems with convergence of SCF for AFM HoPtBi

2018-11-01 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
fudge -- the mixer only works when the math is right! On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:34 AM Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: I have exactly the same experience. It is really a matter of cooking to my point of view and strongly depends on t

Re: [Wien] problems with convergence of SCF for AFM HoPtBi

2018-11-01 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
I have exactly the same experience. It is really a matter of cooking to my point of view and strongly depends on the system and what is happening at the Fermi level. In my case I am using DFT+U+SOC for such systems. The hubbard term indeed allows to separate the 4f states. However, the SOC is

Re: [Wien] problems with convergence of SCF for AFM HoPtBi

2018-11-01 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
I have exactly the same experience. It is really a matter of cooking to my point of view and strongly depends on the system and what is happening at the Fermi level. In my case I am using DFT+U+SOC for such systems. The hubbard term indeed allows to separate the 4f states. However, the SOC is

Re: [Wien] The parameters to obtain an accurate small gap

2018-09-12 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Xiangyan, 10 meV is more than very small! However, accuracy and parameters to adjust (or tune) will really depend on the material, the size of the unit cell, the nature of the bonding... If you want a more accurate answer, we need a more accurate question ;) Cheers Xavier Le 12/09/2

Re: [Wien] optics broken symmetry

2018-09-05 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
As you Laurence, I was thinking about the effect of shifting or not the kmesh! Peter, do you think it will lead to a better convergence? Cheers Xavier Le 03/09/2018 à 13:59, Laurence Marks a écrit : What you are doing "should" work -- I have done similar things myself. I have also managed t

Re: [Wien] LDA+U +SOC calculations

2018-03-20 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Sylwia I will give you a chemist answer, which appears to work properly in many cases. If you have 3d elements, the crystal field (CF) is usually larger than SOC, thus I will do first orb, and then include SO. If you have 4f elements, the SOC is usually larger than the CF, thus I will

Re: [Wien] SO in 3d and 4f elements

2018-03-12 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Pablo It really depends on the property you are considering: 1. In terms of chemical bond, the effect of SO on 3d and 4f elements will be negligeable. 2. In terms of spectroscopy it can be significant if you have access to d3/2 and d5/2 states, but also p1/2 and p3/2 ... and similar for

Re: [Wien] error in calculation of eigen value

2018-03-07 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
It seems you forget the option -c. More generally speaking to help users we need more details. Best Regards Xavier Le 08/03/2018 à 04:45, Lalit Mohan a écrit : My version is 7.1 During execution of band structure task at command x lapw1 -band i am getting following message Commandline: *x

Re: [Wien] Importing .cif files to struct

2018-03-06 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Your cif file contains 3 settings explaining why cif2struct cannot work. Here is the first setting of the cif file. Cheers Xavier Le 06/03/2018 à 12:27, Sherif Yehia a écrit : Dear Users The attached .cif file data have been compiled from the crystallographic data sheet for "HoCo3 Crys

Re: [Wien] regarding k-mesh and tolf

2018-01-28 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
for your system. Cheers Xavier Le 27/01/2018 à 16:01, chin Sabsu a écrit : Sir, it is A2BX6, x is halogen. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:23 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte

Re: [Wien] regarding k-mesh and tolf

2018-01-27 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
bands with the structure having forces ~2-3 mRy/Bohr? Thank you very much! Chin S. On Saturday 27 January 2018, 6:31:35 PM IST, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Dear Chin S. Your system is metallic from the point of view of DFT which is not a surprise. In your last calculation, which i

Re: [Wien] regarding k-mesh and tolf

2018-01-27 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Chin S. Your system is metallic from the point of view of DFT which is not a surprise. In your last calculation, which is the more accurate you simply catch this fact ... In other words in your previous calculations you had 0.1 eV gap due to less kpoints and/or less accurate calculation

Re: [Wien] Charged cells using hybrid functionals

2018-01-23 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Marcelo Another option would be to do a chemical substitution of one element far from the probed atom, for which you want to estimate EFG, in such a way to compensate the charge. This will allow you to use hybrid. Indeed, EFG is a local probe and thus using a supercell with a reasonnabl

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
impact of such approximation ? Considering your last comments, it seems not due to the execution of the orb program only in lapw1 and not during the perturbative procedure. Thank you by advance. All the best, William Lafargue-dit-Hauret Le 16/01/2018 à 17:05, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : I was

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
in case.inso) Please check the presence of case.vorbud. It must not be there for EECE. You could also test Laurence suggestion, running: x lapw1 -up/dn -orb x lapwso -up (no -orb !!!) and see of it makes a difference. On 01/16/2018 04:52 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Dear Peter You are

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
/2018 04:52 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Dear Peter You are totally correct. We are doing SO non-selfconsistent by using a standard procedure for EECE calculations: runsp_lapw -eece -p -ec 0.1 -NI and then we estimate the MAE using this non-SCF procedure : Increase EMAX in case.in1c

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
that for -eece -so, case.vorbud is NOT present (from previous LDA+U). Peter On 01/16/2018 02:50 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Here is a document showing the results graphically. https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=8ac3a214-edfa-4894-fa1f-27aba5a5522f It really looks like

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
additional soft modes which only poorly converge. On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Dear Laurence Here is the point. Our results show that in version 17 a problem occurs related to the time-reversal, which appears only if we do GGA+U or EECE. a) The calculations we

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
this should not matter. b) Hack the runsp_lapw script so that -orb is applied to lapw1, not in lapwso c) Run without the up/dn component (-noorbud) On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 7:50 AM, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Here is a document showing the results graphically. https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=dow

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
ture and not WIEN2k_17. We are now comparing the two versions of the code. Regards Xavier Le 16/01/2018 à 12:10, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Dear All Finally the problem is not completely solved. More precisely, when we are doing GGA+SO calculations and using a correct kmesh (no temp

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
recent modifications in SRC_ORB and SRC_LAPW2 related to the manipulation of case.vorbup, case.vorbdn and case.vorbud files. Surprisingly, the EECE+SO calculations in WIEN2k_16 are symmetric, while not in WIEN2k_17. Next soon ... I hope. Xavier Le 10/01/2018 à 15:10, Xavier Rocquefelte a

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
d to my question. It was essential to identify such a mistake which has a huge impact on the results. Best wishes Xavier Le 10/01/2018 à 10:47, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Dear Lyudmila The fact we have a small angle with axes is expected (also observed experimentally). It is related to the

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Lyudmila The fact we have a small angle with axes is expected (also observed experimentally). It is related to the monoclinic symmetry of the system which permits it. However, you gave me an idea that I will test now and comment soon ;) Cheers Xavier Le 10/01/2018 à 10:40, Lyudmila a

Re: [Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-09 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
th my best regards Jaroslav On 09/01/18 09:44, Xavier Rocquefelte wrote: Dear Colleagues I recently obtained a surprising result concerning the calculation of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) of SeCuO3. This compound has a monoclinic symmetry (SG. P21/n) and is known to be ant

[Wien] Magnetocrystalline anisotropy

2018-01-09 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Colleagues I recently obtained a surprising result concerning the calculation of the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE) of SeCuO3. This compound has a monoclinic symmetry (SG. P21/n) and is known to be antiferromagnetically ordered at low temperature. Here I provide the results

Re: [Wien] nband should be an integer

2018-01-07 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Indeed, it seems that there is an error in the read_input.f file of SRC_hf. If SCREENED if TRUE everything is fine, but not when SCREENED is FALSE, because in this case the program does not read SMU. Here I did a simple modification (in red) of read_input.f : ... read(4,*) screened

Re: [Wien] zigzag potential interpretation

2018-01-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
o dig through the code to see if the vector values being output are time forward or backwards." What you observe is certainly due to this aspect because point group of the iron atoms in this cell is 4mm. Cheers Xavier Le 03/01/2018 à 15:41, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Dear Gerhard One cla

Re: [Wien] zigzag potential interpretation

2018-01-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Gerhard One clarification is needed I think. The discussion was about applying an external ELECTRIC field (not a magnetic one). Thus one part of your answer concerns something else which is also interesting :) Indeed, my PhD student has written a modification of WIEN2k to take into acco

Re: [Wien] zigzag potential interpretation

2018-01-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
‘outward’ for the other layer, is not correct. Yet I don’t see why. Thanks! Stefaan *Van:*Wien [mailto:wien-boun...@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] *Namens *Xavier Rocquefelte *Verzonden:* dinsdag 2 januari 2018 15:38 *Aan:* wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at *Onderwerp:* Re: [Wien] zigzag potential

Re: [Wien] zigzag potential interpretation

2018-01-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
To be honest I also feel that something is missing in my last arguments. What is the electronic configuration of Fe at the surface? The orbital occupancy could play a role in the understanding of the present observation. Le 02/01/2018 à 15:37, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : Dear Stefaan As

Re: [Wien] zigzag potential interpretation

2018-01-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Stefaan As always it is very nice to read your posts :) I will only react on your "Thought 3". What will happen if you do the same calculation along 00-1? To my point of view, you will obtain the same result. Indeed, the magnetic anisotropy (MAE) of bulk-Fe must be symmetric. Here you br

Re: [Wien] stability issue

2017-12-22 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Chin Your question is a little aside from the WIENLIST. Indeed, it is thermodynamics. In equation 1, you evaluate the enthalpie of formation of the compound ABO3 from the reactants AO and BO2 using internal energies. Indeed, you neglect the volumetric effect (P deltaV). From your DFT ca

Re: [Wien] The number of bands is less than what I want

2017-07-15 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Bingrui Peng What are the eigenvalues and how many bands do you have in the valence states. When you did "x lapw1 -band" what was the energy range of your calculation. Look at the case.output1 file, it contains the eigenvalues for each k-points. You will then see the number of bands and

Re: [Wien] Ferromagnetic compound has non-magnetic moments

2017-06-12 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Timothy The main problem here is that in such intermetallic compound you must have both itinerant and localized magnetisms which is not so trivial to treat from DFT and adding an Hubbard correction will not help. To my point of view the problem can be solved by looking at the experimental

Re: [Wien] Ferromagnetic compound has non-magnetic moments

2017-06-12 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Timothy The main problem here is that in such intermetallic compound you must have both itinerant and localized magnetisms which is not so trivial to treat from DFT and adding an Hubbard correction will not help. To my point of view the problem can be solved by looking at the experimental

Re: [Wien] How to know the user id & password for graphical interface of wien2k

2017-03-31 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Shamik The userid and password are generated when you start for the first time the w2web interface by typing in the unix terminal: w2web If it has been already generated, you have then created a directory named .w2web which contains configuration files. One easy solution is to remove

Re: [Wien] Need help to set k-points

2017-02-01 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
One of the best approach is to do a SCF calculation for a small number of k-points and then increase gradually this number. Then you plot the total energy as a function of the number of k-points and you will choose the smallest number giving rise to a good convergency. Ideally you should do s

Re: [Wien] UNPHYSICAL RMT of atom

2017-01-31 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
It seems that you did a mistake in the generation of the case.struct file. If you have the structure in VESTA you can export in CIF format and then use cif2struct. Best Regards Xavier Le 01/02/2017 à 08:21, Rajneesh Chaurasiya a écrit : Dear Wien2k user, I want to compute the electronic pr

Re: [Wien] Mixer surprise when using PBE0 hybrid on-site functional

2017-01-22 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
7;t think of it immediately. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: Dear Colleagues I did recently a calculation which has been published long time ago using a old WIEN2k version (in 2008). It correspon

Re: [Wien] Mixer surprise when using PBE0 hybrid on-site functional

2017-01-20 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
n many cases these have small eigenvalues in the mixing Jacobian which are removed when symmetry is imposed. All one can do is use MSEC3 or some of the additional flags (see the mixer README) such as "SLOW". Fifth...probably exists, but I can't think of it immed

[Wien] Mixer surprise when using PBE0 hybrid on-site functional

2017-01-20 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Colleagues I did recently a calculation which has been published long time ago using a old WIEN2k version (in 2008). It corresponds to a spin-polarized calculation for the compound CuO. The symmetry is removed and the idea is to estimate the total energies for different magnetic orders

Re: [Wien] Optic with and without SO

2017-01-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
niversité Sétif1 (Algeria)/ /http://laboratoires.univ-setif.dz/L.E.S.I.M.S// Le Vendredi 13 janvier 2017 20h04, Xavier Rocquefelte a écrit : I imagine that you have done a spin-polarized calculations. If so, you must sum the spin-up and spin-down contributions when you are doing the epsilon2 spe

Re: [Wien] Optic with and without SO

2017-01-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
I imagine that you have done a spin-polarized calculations. If so, you must sum the spin-up and spin-down contributions when you are doing the epsilon2 spectrum without SO. Cheers Xavier Le 13/01/2017 à 19:06, Nacir GUECHI a écrit : Dear Professor Peter Blaha and Wien2k users. I calculated

Re: [Wien] [partially solved] help is needed for case.inkram file (scissors operator)

2016-12-03 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Bhamu The Fermi level when expressed in Rydberg is given with respect to the printed value in the scf file. In contrast, by convention the Fermi level is fixed at 0 when given in eV. In your case, if you have the following data :FER = +0.134 Ry, it means that you must supply this value

Re: [Wien] it possible to apply first DFT+U and then mBJ+U?

2016-11-27 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Bhamu In the present case, you are dealing with Ag+ ions and thus a d10 electronic configuration for silver. In such a case applying a Hubbard correction will mainly lead to correct the position of the Ag(4d) states which are all occupied and below the O(2p) band. It should not affect s

Re: [Wien] Discrepancy in the simulation of the paramagnetic state

2016-11-27 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Just to add one more point to this funny discussion, the term "paramagnetic" is sometimes used in the DFT litterature in an improper way. It could clearly lead to misunderstanding for researchers who do not know so much on how magnetic properties could evolve with temperature and applied magne

Re: [Wien] overestimated band gap by PBE

2016-11-21 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Bhamu First of all, your band gap to be accurate need many kpoints when taken from the SCF file. The best is to plot the band structure. Then you will have the fundamental band gap, not the optical band gap (usually larger). In your case, you must also include the spin-orbit coupling t

Re: [Wien] degeneracy problem in dipole matrix elements

2016-11-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Mengxi Wu If I clearly understand you, you are considering the GAMMA point where the bands are degenerate. At the GAMMA point these bands have the same symmetry to my point of view, explaining why the dipole matrix is non-zero. Thus your result is expected to my point of view. Best Re

Re: [Wien] charge density

2016-11-13 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Could you clarify your question. What do you mean by "each range"? - Energy range - Density value Le 13/11/2016 à 16:54, boudiaf khadidja a écrit : Dear Wien2k user I use VIETA to plot the charge density ;But I need to know a way to plot or get the values of each range for the charge densit

Re: [Wien] Query about SOC in WIEN2k

2016-11-05 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear R. Chouhan Just to complete the very nice answer of Peter. I have used the force theorem as explained by Peter using GGA+U to estimate MCA and in the cases I have considered it works amazingly nicely. As Peter said, I was using P1 symmetry and checking carefully the convergency before i

Re: [Wien] What does it mean the commment " Unmatched " during SCF cycle

2016-11-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Colleague The option "-o" does not exist. It seems that you wanted to put "-so" ... Is it the case ? Cheers Xavier Le 02/11/2016 à 14:24, Abderrahmane Reggad a écrit : Thanks Dr Assmann for your quick reply I repetad the calculation and I same problem and I want to note that I modifi

Re: [Wien] Which notation for the spin direction in hexagonal structure

2016-10-09 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Colleague The notation is with three indices. It will be along the directions defined in your case.struct file. In other words, if you put 0 0 1, it will be along the c-axis of your case.struct file. Best Regards Xavier Le 09/10/2016 à 12:52, Abderrahmane Reggad a écrit : Dear Wien

Re: [Wien] Error in initialising GGA+U

2016-08-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
i manually created the case.indm file, the scf runs only a single cycle . Thereafter showing a Stop message Thanks On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Xavier Rocquefelte <mailto:xavier.rocquefe...@univ-rennes1.fr>> wrote: Dear Shakeel You must create two files when initializin

Re: [Wien] Error in initialising GGA+U

2016-08-02 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Shakeel You must create two files when initializing a GGA+U (or LDA+U) calculation, i.e. case.inorb and case.indm (or case.indmc if no inversion center in the space group). Normally when you start such a calculation from the w2web interface, the interface open a template file to allow y

Re: [Wien] which file I can delete

2016-04-24 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Indeed I never use the scf file when I restart a calculation. Have a nice week Xavier Le 25/04/2016 08:38, Stefaan Cottenier a écrit : You must use the command restore_lapw -d directory Apparently, your computer works better than ours. I also don't see the case.scf restored unless the scri

Re: [Wien] which file I can delete

2016-04-24 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Dr. Bhamu you forget to put "-d" which explain why you did not restore from the files contained in the directory. You must use the command restore_lapw -d directory More details, here: http://100.36.165.205/usersguide/5_Shell_scripts.html#SECTION05222000 Regards Xavier Le 2

Re: [Wien] negative epsilon 1

2016-01-10 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Brik What you found is usual and is simply the signature of a high absorption in this high energy region. Indeed, a simple way to understand the negative value of eps1 is to look at the following relation: eps1 = n^2 - k^2 with n the real part and k the imaginary part of the complex refr

Re: [Wien] Graphene bandstructure

2015-12-23 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Fhokrul Your structure looks strange to me. The angle is 60° and not 120° and it seems that you do not take benefit of the symetry.  Here is a cif file of graphene based on the graphite structure in which I have simply increase the c parameter.  The structure you are using may explain why yo

Re: [Wien] elast for magnetic material + curie temp

2015-08-20 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
About the Néel temperature, I know two main strategies: - If you know an analytical formula which relates TN with J values (J: magnetic exchange parameters of your system) then you can estimate TN from DFT  calculations. It will require the calculation of all the J's values of your system. Such

Re: [Wien] need your help

2015-08-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
You must also read this document produced by Stefaan Cottenier. http://www.wien2k.at/reg_user/textbooks/DFT_and_LAPW-2_cottenier.pdf In particular p43 and the following pages. Regards Xavier sikander Azam a écrit : > Dear all > When we plot the band structure so what the brillion zone symmet

Re: [Wien] need your help

2015-08-04 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Azam Many excellent books could help you to understand how a band structure works. I recommend you to look at the following web sites: http://www.chem.uci.edu/~lawm/Hoffmann.pdf http://www.chemeddl.org/alfresco/service/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/addbf469-059f-44ff-beb5-3417c58e

Re: [Wien] question regarding magetic moment

2015-07-19 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Rishi Indeed, WIEN2K provides numbers with 4 digits however it does not mean that the value is accurate up to 4 digits. The accuracy will depend on: - the convergence criteria you are using. - the RMT you are using. Indeed the magnetic moment for each atom is estimated inside the muffin-ti

Re: [Wien] Partially Occupied Wyckoff site

2015-06-01 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
Dear Farshad, As mentionned by Pascal you must use a supercell. For instance, if you use a small supercell with 2a x 2b x c, you will have 8 positions for the 2a site. In such a sitiuation you will be able to do the following occupation: - 1Li and 7 Fe, i.e. occupations of 0.125/0.875 - 2Li an

Re: [Wien] Adding excitonic effects

2015-05-16 Thread Xavier Rocquefelte
for your quick and detailed reply. I am > calculating the valance optical properties, where the hole is > positioned in the valance states; JDOS, Energy loss function etc. > > Thanks > > - Original Message - > From: "Xavier Rocquefelte" > To: "A Mail

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