GS scf with spin-orbit coupling  [SOLVED]

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GS scf with spin-orbit coupling

Post by sponce » Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:33 am

Dear all,

I'm trying for the first time the SO coupling capabilities of Abinit and stumble upon some issue.

1) I studied a perovskite material with norm-conserving GGA (fhi) psps. I would like to treat the Pb with SO coupling. Is it mandatory to use HGH psp? It would make the calculations a lot heavier.
I tried with the GGA psps to see:

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 nspinor 2 # Spin-polarized (collinear) calculation.
 nsppol 1  # Calculation with spin up and sping down that cannot be disantengled.
 nspden 4  # Vector magnztization.
 so_psp 1 1 1 1 1 # Pb 4*other psp 1==> automatic treatment

 paral_kgb 0  # To be sure ...
 autoparal 0   # To be on the safe side.


The scf cycle seems to work:

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 ETOT  1  -128.77044980075    -1.288E+02 1.106E-02 1.880E+03
 ETOT  2  -128.95234512014    -1.819E-01 4.890E-06 2.658E+02
 ETOT  3  -128.96664200898    -1.430E-02 7.374E-04 5.352E+01
 ETOT  4  -128.97321356721    -6.572E-03 3.226E-04 1.292E+01
 ETOT  5  -128.97433018342    -1.117E-03 5.321E-05 7.140E-01
 ETOT  6  -128.97441044789    -8.026E-05 4.097E-06 6.116E-02
 ETOT  7  -128.97441768406    -7.236E-06 2.032E-07 2.482E-03
 ETOT  8  -128.97441776467    -8.061E-08 2.187E-09 2.746E-04
 ETOT  9  -128.97441777455    -9.875E-09 3.611E-10 5.096E-05
 ETOT 10  -128.97441777734    -2.788E-09 1.140E-10 1.632E-05
 ETOT 11  -128.97441777863    -1.295E-09 1.714E-11 4.851E-07
 ETOT 12  -128.97441777864    -1.089E-11 4.624E-13 3.662E-08
 ETOT 13  -128.97441777864    -1.961E-12 1.106E-13 6.907E-09
 ETOT 14  -128.97441777865    -1.506E-12 2.444E-14 8.435E-10
 ETOT 15  -128.97441777864     1.677E-12 1.120E-15 1.837E-10
 ETOT 16  -128.97441777864    -5.969E-13 1.996E-16 5.538E-11
 ETOT 17  -128.97441777865    -9.095E-13 6.924E-17 1.514E-11
 ETOT 18  -128.97441777864     2.274E-13 1.840E-17 4.168E-12
 ETOT 19  -128.97441777864     7.674E-13 3.535E-18 1.126E-12
 ETOT 20  -128.97441777864    -2.842E-14 8.201E-19 3.397E-13
 ETOT 21  -128.97441777865    -1.165E-12 4.452E-19 1.016E-13
 ETOT 22  -128.97441777865     1.990E-13 9.470E-20 2.249E-14
 ETOT 23  -128.97441777864     3.979E-13 2.586E-20 6.971E-15
 ETOT 24  -128.97441777865    -3.979E-13 9.846E-21 1.581E-15
 ETOT 25  -128.97441777865    -9.663E-13 2.157E-21 3.655E-16
 ETOT 26  -128.97441777865    -1.137E-13 5.759E-22 1.001E-16
 ETOT 27  -128.97441777865     2.558E-13 1.874E-22 2.022E-17


And there is twice as much eigenenergies (as it should).

The issue is that I get a crash (abinit version 7.6.1) while writing the _DEN file:

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 Cartesian components of stress tensor (hartree/bohr^3)
  sigma(1 1)= -2.13553508E-07  sigma(3 2)=  7.26873239E-08
  sigma(2 2)= -4.17058858E-07  sigma(3 1)=  1.38768846E-08
  sigma(3 3)= -4.89733734E-07  sigma(2 1)= -5.54571747E-08

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 ioarr: writing density data
ioarr: file name is bandstructureo_DS1_DEN
forrtl: Remote I/O error
forrtl: severe (30): open failure, unit 9, file /mnt/fhgfs/sponce/perovskite/bandstructure_SO/bandstructureo_DS1_DEN


Is there a reason for that? Is it due to the fact that I'm not using a HGH psp?

Thank you!

Samuel Poncé.

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Re: GS scf with spin-orbit coupling  [SOLVED]

Post by sponce » Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:41 pm

After investigation its likely to be a machine related problem. The file system is probably wrong somehow.

acesswff 1 enable mpi IO which help a bit but I got a similar problem later on. I decide to test it on a different cluster.

Anyway it not really related directly to Abinit so I will mark it as solve.

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