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/> _______________________________________________ Wien mailing list Wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at<mailto:Wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/wien SEARCH the MAILING-LIST at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/index.html
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