There was nothing "wrong" in wien2k_13 for default gga+u+so calculations.

As you can see when you look into the "updates" page in www.wien2k.at in wien2k_16 we added the "cross-term" between up and dn spin states (active only with SO) as the default behavior (while one had to activate this by an extra switch in wien2k_13, and the total energy contribution of this extra term had an error).

Obviously, this changed default can change the results in certain cases, but usually I would expect a small effect.

I'd consider this similar as the difference of using an "effective U" (J=0) or using U and J as two independent parameters. Calculations with U_eff or with U - J (even when U_eff=U-J) will give slightly different results.

Am 17.05.2017 um 03:21 schrieb Guo-ping Zhang:
Dear Peter,

Thank you very much for your help!

(Upon your request, I post this to the mailing list.)

Your suggestion (when running DOS for +U calculation I have to use x
lapw2 -qtl -p -up/dn -orb -so, followed by x tera -up/dn) solved my
problem.

I have two followup questions.

(1) Are GGA+U+SO results in Wien2k_13 trustworth?  Or just the
calculation for DOS is incorrect, not the actual results such as spin
moment, optical properties, total energies?

I noticed that although Wien2k_13 (I am using) and Wien2k_16 give the
same peak position (energy) for 4F states, the shapes of DOS differ.

5D states are not affected by this since U is affed to 4F only, as
expected.


(2) I did notice a strange behavior with +U calculation.

Using Wien2k_13, after the second iteration, the output on the
terminal looks like this (suppose that I have three nodes)

 ORB   END
 ORB   END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
... ...


But with Wien2k_16, I have

 ORB   END
 ORB   END
 ORB   END <----one extra
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
 LAPW1 END
... ...

Therefore, Wien2k_13 version misses one iteration over the orbital
part.

Should I be concerned about this difference?


Thank you very much once again!

Best regards,

Guoping


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