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by jzwanzig
Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:11 pm
Forum: Improving ABINIT
Topic: Bug related to piezoelectric constants
Replies: 0
Views: 51709

Bug related to piezoelectric constants

Hi, the following may be a bug, I've uncovered it as I work on the ffield tutorial. In a DFPT run, in order obtain the clamped and relaxed piezoelectric constants, it works if the phonons, strains, and electric fields are computed in a single dataset. However, it fails if the electric field perturba...
by jzwanzig
Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:46 pm
Forum: Configuring and compiling ABINIT
Topic: ABI_UNUSED failing for intel 19 with debug mode [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 3271

Re: ABI_UNUSED failing for intel 19 with debug mode [SOLVED]

Thanks Matteo that work-around seems to be fine.

Joe
by jzwanzig
Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:27 pm
Forum: Configuring and compiling ABINIT
Topic: ABI_UNUSED failing for intel 19 with debug mode [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 3271

ABI_UNUSED failing for intel 19 with debug mode [SOLVED]

Hi, I can compile abinit 9.0.0 with gcc in debug mode "enhanced", but not with intel 19, because of the ABI_UNUSED macro. I believe the problem is that m_xmpi.F90 uses this macro, and is compiled under directory "12_hide_mpi", but the routine "unused_var" that the macro calls is not defined until di...
by jzwanzig
Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:11 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: getcell does not get correct values in RF calculations
Replies: 3
Views: 5104

Re: getcell does not get correct values in RF calculations

Even re-doing a GS calc after relaxation and then a response function calc, fails. That is: ndtset 4 1) Relax ions 2) Relax ions and cell using ions from 1 3) Compute accurate GS WFK and DEN, using cell and ions from 2 4) Compute DDK using WFK, cell, and ions from 3 == FAIL The output file reports c...
by jzwanzig
Fri Dec 14, 2018 7:05 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: parallel berryopt -1 crashing with more than one node
Replies: 17
Views: 12366

Re: parallel berryopt -1 crashing with more than one node

Hi,
I need more information to give a helpful answer. In particular, how many kpts are you using? How many nodes? PAW or NCPP?

thanks,
Joe
by jzwanzig
Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:04 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: calculating energies from NSCF run
Replies: 1
Views: 1915

Re: calculating energies from NSCF run

If you do an SCF calculation with nstep 1, nline 0, the output will be just the result of the input density.
by jzwanzig
Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:02 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: how to start from initial charge density in SCF calc.
Replies: 1
Views: 2045

Re: how to start from initial charge density in SCF calc.

If you have a DEN file created from a previous Abinit run, you can use irdden 1 to read it at the start of a new calculation. getden only works in multi-dataset mode.
by jzwanzig
Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:00 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: Write a structure to the input file
Replies: 1
Views: 1854

Re: Write a structure to the input file

So you're saying you have partial occupancy of sites (chemical disorder). Generally this is handled by creating a supercell, with the equivalent site occupied by different atom types in different cells. In abinit, and other DFT codes, a site can be occupied by one and only one atom at a time.
by jzwanzig
Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:23 pm
Forum: Improving ABINIT
Topic: use of K and KPRIME in getghc
Replies: 0
Views: 6535

use of K and KPRIME in getghc

Hi, I notice that in getghc, m_hamiltonian, etc there is now code for application of H between different K points (K_H_K, KPRIME_H_K, etc). I'm not quite clear how and where this is being used in the code. Is it part of Hartree-Fock (the Fock operator)? Is it coded also for PAW? (doesn't seem to be)...
by jzwanzig
Mon Dec 04, 2017 4:49 pm
Forum: Improving ABINIT
Topic: Use of COMPLEX data and use of BLAS
Replies: 1
Views: 7249

Use of COMPLEX data and use of BLAS

Hi everyone, I'm back to development. Currently I'm putting the finishing touches on implementing nuclear magnetic dipoles--they are input with nucdipmom(3,natom) input variable, and then the Hamiltonian is modified to include them (in PAW, both on-site terms and the bare A.p term). Two questions ar...
by jzwanzig
Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:21 pm
Forum: Link to other codes
Topic: Can I mix different PAW atomic data from GPAW code
Replies: 5
Views: 5757

Re: Can I mix different PAW atomic data from GPAW code

The richest source for XC's in abinit is libxc, which can be compiled in when abinit is built. You need to see if the xc you want exists (yet) in libxc, compile in the proper version to abinit, and also build your pseudopotentials or PAW data sets with libxc and the xc functional you want.
by jzwanzig
Fri May 19, 2017 4:30 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: getcell, getxcart examples [SOLVED]
Replies: 1
Views: 2895

Re: getcell, getxcart examples [SOLVED]

yes in the v1 folder of the tests, see tests 78 and 80
by jzwanzig
Fri May 19, 2017 4:25 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: Suitable diemac value for Silicon supercell with Pd and H2 [SOLVED]
Replies: 2
Views: 3256

Re: Suitable diemac value for Silicon supercell with Pd and  [SOLVED]

Although your system contains a metal atom as an impurity, that doesn't necessarily make it have bulk metallic behavior (imagine a 1 gram sample of Si with a single Pd atom in it--still looks pretty much like Si). All diemac does is help with scf convergence. It's unlikely that the optimum value in ...
by jzwanzig
Fri May 19, 2017 12:38 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 4304

Re: Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]

Hi, yes, I think in anaddb the elastic tensors could be symmetrized pretty easily, that would clean the output (but it would still "look" non-standard if the cell was not aligned in a nice way). As for cell alignment, there are (I think) just the 14 crystal classes to consider. I've been b...
by jzwanzig
Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:13 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 4304

Re: Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]

OK, after much work, I think I understand what abinit is doing. a) there is no symmetry breaking in the strain code. The elastic tensor that comes out is symmetry-correct (I checked this carefully by writing python code that did a full symmetry projection of the elastic tensor using all the space gr...
by jzwanzig
Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:21 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: Cu Ground State - far from datas. Error in input file ? [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 4540

Re: Cu Ground State - far from datas. Error in input file ? [SOLVED]

fcc copper has a lattice constant of about 3.61 angstrom, your value corresponds to about twice that. It almost looks like you got the lattice constant from somewhere in Bohr, but thought it was in angstrom and then converted the number to Bohr. Short answer is that your acell is much larger than th...
by jzwanzig
Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:50 am
Forum: Ground state
Topic: Start new energy calculation from where it stopped
Replies: 2
Views: 2885

Re: Start new energy calculation from where it stopped

As far as I know, Abinit doesn't have a check point facility to restart a job in the middle of an scf cycle. You have a lot of atoms in your unit cell. How many cores are you running on? You need to be running in parallel over bands and FFT planes ( you have a small number of k points so the default...
by jzwanzig
Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:43 am
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: Structure optimization [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 4522

Re: Structure optimization [SOLVED]

I think your question is posted in the wrong part of the forum, this section is for response functions (phonons, electric field, etc). Your question is more of a ground state question.

In any case, what are you using for kptrlatt, and shiftk?
by jzwanzig
Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:39 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]
Replies: 3
Views: 4304

Use of symmetry in strain calculations [SOLVED]

Hi, can someone shed light on the use symmetry in the rfstrs (strain) DFPT calculation? My example is aluminum--an FCC cell, only 1 atom in the primitive cell. Questions arising: 1) The code with rfstrs 3 runs all 6 strain calculations, though by symmetry for this crystal I would think fewer would b...
by jzwanzig
Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:01 pm
Forum: Response calculations
Topic: dfpt_nstwf.F90 bug message
Replies: 1
Views: 2292

dfpt_nstwf.F90 bug message

Hi, I'm running electric field perturbation calculations of the type I've done many times before--general chain of calculations looks like 1) GS, saving WFK 2) DDK, rfdir 1 1 1, reading WFK from 1), saving 1WF.. 3) rfelfd 3, rfdir 1 1 1, reading WFK from 1) and 1WF from 2 Usually this works but now ...
by jzwanzig
Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:08 pm
Forum: Many-body perturbation theory
Topic: BSE interpolation
Replies: 0
Views: 1872

BSE interpolation

Hi, I must be missing something obvious here--I am trying to reproduce data in Gillet, Giantomassi, and Gonze, CPC 203, 83 (2016). Doing a BSE calc with an 8x8x8 k pt mesh works and give an answer similar to the cited paper; doing 4x4x4 with bs_interp_mode 1, bs_interp_method 0, bs_interp_kmult 1 1 ...
by jzwanzig
Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:22 pm
Forum: Many-body perturbation theory
Topic: BSE features in 8.2 and beyond
Replies: 0
Views: 1943

BSE features in 8.2 and beyond

Hi, just wondering where the feature set for BSE calculations stands in 8.2 (which I guess should be released shortly?) and beyond. Specifically:

1) Support for NCPP's with multiple projectors (for example Hamann oncvpsp type)

2) Interpolation with PAW

3) Interpolation with parallelism

thanks,
Joe
by jzwanzig
Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:43 pm
Forum: Many-body perturbation theory
Topic: Memory use estimate in GW and BSE calculations
Replies: 2
Views: 6612

Memory use estimate in GW and BSE calculations

Hi all (long time no see!) can someone provide a rough estimate for the memory needed per processor during the screening calculation and the BSE calculation? For example, running nbands with nkpts on nprocs, how much memory/processor should be available? These calculations seem to be running well ex...
by jzwanzig
Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:46 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 tetragonal
Replies: 3
Views: 3221

Re: La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 tetragonal

you will have to model the disorder somehow, either with supercells or special quasirandom structures. This in itself is complex and requires much testing on large systems.
by jzwanzig
Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:45 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: Self consistent field convergence not reaching
Replies: 2
Views: 3187

Re: Self consistent field convergence not reaching

Well, you probably have a difficult system. Did you do lots of control experiments? Did you make sure that your model of Al-doped graphene itself gives predictions that agree with expt or intuition? Did you make sure you can accurately model an H2O molecule on a simpler surface, say pure Al or pure ...