Hey Israel,

Check the struct file for the supercell.

Did you change the Z as well as the atom? Remember the atom number Z is set 
automatically by ``set RMT and continue editing'', but once it is set (to 34 
for Se, for example) you will need to change it manually.

So if you relabel an Se atom as Te, you also need to change the Z to 52.

-John

On 2013-08-20, at 9:08 PM, Israel Pérez wrote:

Hi Prof. P. Blaha

I need some help with supercell calculations. I'd like to investigate the 
effect of replacing Se with Te in the system FeSe. Structure file is as shown 
below.


FeSe
P   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  2129_P4/nmm
MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=ang
  7.119735  7.119735 10.364585 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
ATOM  -1: X=0.25000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.00000000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT=-2
      -1: X=0.75000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.00000000
Fe         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.1900   Z: 26.0
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.7071068-0.7071068 0.0000000
                     0.7071068 0.7071068 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -2: X=0.25000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.23720000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT=-2
      -2: X=0.75000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.76280000
Se         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.9400   Z: 34.0
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
  16      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS
-1 0 0 0.00000000
 0-1 0 0.00000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
       1
 0-1 0 0.00000000
-1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
       2
 0 1 0 0.00000000
 1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       3
 1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 1 0 0.00000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       4
-1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 1 0 0.00000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       5
-1 0 0 0.50000000
 0-1 0 0.50000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       6
 0-1 0 0.50000000
-1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       7
 0 1 0 0.50000000
-1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
       8
 0 1 0 0.00000000
-1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
       9
 0-1 0 0.00000000
 1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
      10
 0-1 0 0.50000000
 1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
      11
 0 1 0 0.50000000
 1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
      12
-1 0 0 0.00000000
 0 1 0 0.50000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
      13
 1 0 0 0.50000000
 0-1 0 0.00000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
      14
 1 0 0 0.00000000
 0-1 0 0.50000000
 0 0 1 0.00000000
      15
 1 0 0 0.50000000
 0 1 0 0.50000000
 0 0-1 0.00000000
      16

Then I copy it to a new session and create a supercell 2X2X1 with lattice F. 
The program recognizes 8 inequivalent atoms, each with two positions (total of 
16 atoms). Then I replace the last atom of Se by Te so that I have a doping of 
25% and set its RMT to 2 and the atomic number to 52. RMT_Fe=2.1 and 
RMT_Se=1.96. Here I have a couple of questions. First, I wonder if we have to 
label all inequivalent atoms (for instance, Fe1, Fe2, Se1, Se2, etc.) because 
when I compute xnn, I got a warning like this

 WARNING: Mult not equal. PLEASE CHECK outputnn-file
 WARNING: ityp not equal. PLEASE CHECK outputnn-file
 WARNING: ityp not equal. PLEASE CHECK outputnn-file

  NN created a new SFeSeTe.struct_nn file
NN created a new CASE.STRUCT_NN FILE
0.016u 0.000s 0:00.01 100.0%    0+0k 0+160io 0pf+0w

If I continue to x group I got another warning such as this:

warning: !!! Number of inequivalent atoms has changed. !!! Old value= 8 New 
value= 6 warning: !!! Bravais lattice has changed.
sgroup found: 12 (C 2/m) [unique axis c] cell choice 2

Why? And then the program suggests to change the sgroup. If I don't accept and 
continue I get an error in editinst step:

error: SFeSeTe.inst not consistent with Z
edit SFeSeTe.inst and rerun lstart afterwards or change Z in StructGen!

On the other hand, if I labeled the atoms, the warnings after xnn is executed 
don't appear anymore. However, when I run  sgroup, I got a warning:

warning: !!! Struct file is not consistent with space group found.
sgroup found: !!! Struct file is not consistent with space group found. Number 
and name of space group: 2 (P -1)

which causes errors in forthcoming steps. Should I labeled them and why? What 
is the correct procedure to avoid these warnings and perform supercell 
calculations successfully. I'm a beginner with supercell calculations.

I have already read the manual but the information is not enough to solve this 
problem. I also checked the wien list of problems. There are some similar to 
mine but the warnings and errors are different. I'd appreciate any assistance 
you may have.

Regards

Thanks

Israel  Perez

<http://www.mda.cinvestav.mx/>
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