[Wien] Large QTL values Ghost bands?

gpzhang gpzhang at utk.edu
Thu Oct 7 23:13:11 CEST 2004


Dear Wien users and developers,

I run into some problems with the ghost bands.

My compounds are CoPt and CoPt3 (Pm-3m), with a spin-polarized run. The
following question and results are based on CoPt3 (in CoPt I have
similar problems but with a larger QTL-B VALUE .EQ. 5.76866 !!!!!! see
more below).  ENERGY to separate core and valence states is -8 Ry. Rmt
is 2.5 au for both co and pt. All the initialization is fine.

I almost exhausted all the methods on the mailing list.


(1) Try first scf run. The QTL-values in case.scf for subsequent
iterations are


Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    4.04800   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.43104   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.97542   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.38249   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.15234   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    5.73068   !!!!!! <-----
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.31040   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.86197   !!!!!! <------
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.26500   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.27726   !!!!!!
.....
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.96268   !!!!!!
Copt3.1.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.41584   !!!!!!

I got some big qtl values for some earlier runs. I assume this is fine
since the converged one does not have a big qtl, but I want to
eliminate them completely.


(2) To improve this, I checked the results from the very last
iteration (in case.scf). So that I got some new E(0) and E(1) et al. I
insert them into case.in1. And started a fresh new run in a different
directory. Here are the results.

Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.91450   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.38969   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.94909   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.35729   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.07575   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    5.76425   !!!!!! <---------
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.24474   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.93511   !!!!!! <---------
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.21559   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.03624   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.09792   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    5.86360   !!!!!! <---------
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.86407   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.08492   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.87268   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.15657   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.95707   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.05150   !!!!!!
....... 
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.91856   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.97462   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.96056   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.09958   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.95364   !!!!!!
Copt3.2.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.09837   !!!!!!

So, I got even worse qtl.

(3) Then I start -in1new 1 trick. Input some of the parameters from
the generated case.in1. Started a new run. Here are the results that I
found.

Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    4.13621   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.52764   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    4.07057   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    2.21291   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.20378   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    5.69120   !!!!!! <------
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.40966   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.81764   !!!!!! <--------
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.33373   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    6.24661   !!!!!! <------
.....
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.40942   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.03579   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.42516   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.03412   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.42643   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    3.03612   !!!!!!
Copt3.4.scf:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    1.38460   !!!!!!

No significant improvement is found.


(4) I checked the help file and found the most problem is associated
an energy at -3.1600. This energy level should correspond to Pt 
since for Pt
          E( 1)=   -3.1600   E(BOTTOM)=   -3.230   E(TOP)=   -3.090
             LOCAL ORBITAL
but I found QTL error in Co's help file Copt3.1.helpup_2031 not  
Copt3.1.helpup_2032

  BAND#  32  E= -3.16652  WEIGHT= 0.0240000
  L= 0    0.00000       0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000     0.000
  L= 1    0.01397       0.007     0.001     0.004     0.000     0.000
  L= 2    0.01372       0.002     0.012     0.000     0.000     0.000

This is weird. Even after I modified the E(1) separately for each
atom, it does not help either.


(5) For CoPt. From the help file, I found the main error is from the
local orbitals where the last column values are larger than that of the
second last one, but even I used the energies (in case.scf) for the
local orbital from a previous run, it still gives me big QTL values

For instance, QTL-B VALUE .EQ.  5.76866 !!!!!!

Any suggestions are welcome. A structure file for CoPt is attached at
the end. If you need any additional info, please let me know. Thanks a
lot in advance!

Best regards,

Guoping
---------------head-------------------------------
copt
P   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  2123_P4/mmm
MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=ang
  5.085633  5.085633  6.961565 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 2
Co         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.7500   Z: 27.0
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -2: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.00000000
          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 2
Pt         NPT=  781  R0=0.00000500 RMT=    1.7500   Z: 78.0
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
-------------end-----------------------------------





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