[Wien] Wrong Gap Size in Spin Orbit Bandstructure of Bi

Matthew Xia xiay at princeton.edu
Mon Oct 29 22:34:07 CET 2007


Hello Wien Users,
   Thank you Professor Blaha for clarifying my mistake last time. My bands
for Bi now have no ghost bands. However, there is still another problem:
while the calculated bands without spin orbit coupling agrees very well with
literature and tight binding, the bands with spin orbit coupling do not.
Specifically, the gaps generated by the coupling are up to 1eV, while it
should be in the order of 100meV at most. I did not see any error messages
in any of the files. Is this problem just intrinsic in LAPW? Could someone
please suggest some ways of solving this?
  Below are some excerpts from my SCF file:
       LATTICE                      = R
:POT  : POTENTIAL OPTION   11
:LAT  : LATTICE CONSTANTS=  8.56651  8.56651 22.29254
:VOL  : UNIT CELL VOLUME =     472.25526
       MODE OF CALCULATION IS       = RELA
       NON-SPINPOLARIZED CALCULATION
:IFFT  : FFT-parameters:   60   60   60 Factor: 2.00
       ATOMNUMBER=  1 Bi1        VCOUL-ZERO =  0.35486E+00
:EFG001:                        EFG         =    -2.92033   *10**21  V /
m**2
                               V20  TOT/SRF=    -2.52908    -0.00761
                               V22  TOT/SRF=     0.00000     0.00000
                               V22M TOT/SRF=     0.00000     0.00000
                               V21  TOT/SRF=     0.00000     0.00000
                               V21M TOT/SRF=     0.00000     0.00000

              1.46016    0.00000    0.00000        1.46016    0.00000
0.00000
              0.00000    1.46016    0.00000        0.00000    1.46016
0.00000
              0.00000    0.00000   -2.92033        0.00000    0.00000   -
2.92033

         MAIN DIRECTIONS OF THE EFG   1.0000  0.0000  0.0000
                                      0.0000  1.0000  0.0000
                                      0.0000  0.0000  1.0000
:ANG001:  ANGLE WITH OLD X-AXIS =         0.0

:ETA001:                         ASYMM. ETA =     0.00000


       HELLMAN-FEYMAN-FORCE IN mRy/a.u. = |F|  Fx       Fy             Fz
:FHF001:   1.ATOM        593.175          0.000          0.000
593.175

:FIT001: SIGMA OF V-XC FIT FOR ATOM  1  0.1593937E-02
:FIT001: SIGMA OF V-XC FIT FOR ATOM  1  0.1593937E-02
:DEN  : DENSITY INTEGRALS =          -32806.265933   (Ry)
       ELS_POTENTIAL_AT Z=0 and Z=0.5:   0.00000   0.00000
       ELS_POTENTIAL_AT Y=0 and Y=0.5:   0.00000   0.00000
:VZERO:v0,v0c,v0x  -0.64029   0.00000  -0.64029 v5,v5c,v5x  -0.64029
0.00000  -0.64029
:VZERY:v0,v0c,v0x  -0.64029   0.00000  -0.64029 v5,v5c,v5x  -0.64029
0.00000  -0.64029
:VZERX:v0,v0c,v0x  -0.24677   0.44887  -0.69564 v5,v5c,v5x   0.22004
0.81573  -0.59569

          ATOMIC SPHERE DEPENDENT PARAMETERS FOR ATOM  Bi1
          OVERALL ENERGY PARAMETER IS    0.3000
          OVERALL BASIS SET ON ATOM IS LAPW
          E( 2)=   -1.3250   E(BOTTOM)=   -1.390   E(TOP)=   -1.260
             APW+lo
          E( 2)=    0.3000
             LOCAL ORBITAL
          E( 0)=   -0.3550   E(BOTTOM)=   -0.960   E(TOP)=    0.250
             APW+lo
          E( 0)=    0.3000
             LOCAL ORBITAL
          E( 1)=    0.3000
             APW+lo

       K=   0.05000   0.05000   0.05000            1
:RKM  : MATRIX SIZE  146LOs:  30  RKM= 6.85  WEIGHT= 2.00  PGR:
       EIGENVALUES ARE:
        -1.3309847   -1.3309847   -1.3196393   -1.3196393   -1.3181696
        -1.3049557   -1.3039549   -1.3039549   -1.2956279   -1.2956279
        -0.6251791   -0.2110869    0.2321272    0.2503279    0.2503279
         0.5198846    0.5532551    0.5532551    0.7327748    0.7638024
         0.7638024    0.8032257    0.8193770    0.9275624    0.9275624
         1.5555104    1.5555104    1.6375409    1.6571598    1.7645236
         1.7645236    1.8323071    1.8323071    1.9128318    1.9989815
         1.9989815    2.0398082    2.0398082    2.0633305    2.1501748

         2.1969131    2.2729155    2.2946144    2.2946144    2.3590988
         2.4213668    2.4213668    2.5670585    2.5865098    2.6005748
         2.6555594    2.6555594    2.7026249    2.7026249    2.7986725
         2.8004596    2.8004596    2.8121182    2.8453685    2.8453685
         2.8801347    2.9202620    2.9202620    2.9388306    2.9388306
         3.0762951    3.0840931    3.0840931    3.1030846
       ********************************************************

       NUMBER OF K-POINTS:         110
   0.0   0.0 angle (M,z), angle (M,x) deg

        SPIN-ORBIT EIGENVALUES:
     K=   0.05000   0.05000   0.05000            1
      MATRIX SIZE=  138   WEIGHT= 2.00
     EIGENVALUES ARE:
          -1.4466660   -1.4466660   -1.4459445   -1.4459445   -1.4417597
          -1.4417597   -1.4413669   -1.4413669   -1.2355764   -1.2355764
          -1.2343088   -1.2343088   -1.2338909   -1.2338909   -1.2182602
          -1.2182602   -1.2178334   -1.2178334   -1.2172540   -1.2172540
          -0.6252053   -0.6252053   -0.2111877   -0.2111877    0.1418635
           0.1418635    0.2834755    0.2834755    0.2989124    0.2989124
           0.4303757    0.4303757    0.5770090    0.5770090    0.6026985
           0.6026985    0.7329113    0.7329113    0.7626778    0.7626778

           0.7678184    0.7678184    0.8048384    0.8048384    0.8205883
           0.8205883    0.9274553    0.9274553    0.9289315    0.9289315

       ********************************************************
My .in1 file is:
WFFIL        (WFPRI, SUPWF)
  7.00       10    4 (R-MT*K-MAX; MAX L IN WF, V-NMT
  0.30    5  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
APW/LAPW)
 2   -1.53      0.010 CONT 1
 2    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
 0   -0.74      0.010 CONT 1
 0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
 1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
K-VECTORS FROM UNIT:4   -9.0       3.5    19   emin/emax/nband #red

and my .inso file is:
WFFIL
 4  1  0                      llmax,ipr,kpot
 -10.0000   1.50000           emin,emax (output energy window)
   1.  1.  1.                 direction of magnetization (lattice vectors)
 0                           number of atoms for which RLO is added
 0   -4.97      0.005       atom number,e-lo,de (case.in1), repeat NX times
 0 0 0 0 0                    number of atoms for which SO is switch off;
atoms

Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
Matthew Xia
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