[Wien] Ghostbands for L=3

Lijun Zhang ljzhang at ornl.gov
Fri Sep 5 15:41:50 CEST 2008


Dear Wien users,

I kept on performing antiferromagnetic calculations and struggling in "ghostbands" errors these days. 

The calculation runs smoothly with no magnetism. When taking antiferromagnetism with runafm_lapw,  in the first or after a few more iteration, such errors information always appears:

QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   68.15074   in Band of energy   -3.45032   ATOM=    2   L=  3
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.  327.72884   in Band of energy   -3.47500   ATOM=    3   L=  3

I have carefully read the UG, the FAQs or the digest and learned that this might be induced by not appropriate energy-parameters for linearization, or not appropriate local orbitals, and or bigger mixing parameter. I try to change them but the problem is still. Most confusing to me, the ghostbands appear corresponding to L=3. However, obviously no f electron obitals was taken into account in present system. 
Some detailed information was listed below for your reference.

Any advice would be appreciated,
Lijun Zhang
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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My structure file for no magnetism:

blebleble
P   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  4 99 P4mm
MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=bohr
  7.438529  7.438529 12.108987 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
          MULT= 1          ISPLIT=-2
Li1        NPT=  781  R0=.000100000 RMT=   1.80000   Z:   3.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -2: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.44320000
          MULT= 1          ISPLIT=-2
Sb1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.20000   Z:  51.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.68862000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -3: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.68862000
Fe1        NPT=  781  R0=.000050000 RMT=   2.10000   Z:  26.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -4: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.92595000
          MULT= 1          ISPLIT=-2
Te1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.20000   Z:  52.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
   8      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS

The constructed structure for  the antiferromagnetic state: 

blebleble
P   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  5 28 Pma2
MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=bohr
 10.519727 10.519727 12.108987 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
ATOM  -1: X=0.25000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.00000000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -1: X=0.75000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.00000000
Li1        NPT=  781  R0=.000100000 RMT=   1.80000   Z:   3.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
                     1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
ATOM  -2: X=0.25000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.55680000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -2: X=0.75000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.55680000
Sb1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.20000   Z:  51.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
                     1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
ATOM  -3: X=0.25000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.07405000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -3: X=0.75000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.07405000
Te1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.20000   Z:  52.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
                     1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
ATOM  -4: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.31138000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -4: X=0.00000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.31138000
Fe1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.10000   Z:  26.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -5: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.31138000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 8
      -5: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.31138000
Fe2        NPT=  781  R0=.000050000 RMT=   2.10000   Z:  26.
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
   4      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS

I have edited case.inst file to flip spin for second Fe atom:

Li
He 1
2,-1,0.5  N
2,-1,0.5  N
Sb
Kr 5
4, 2,2.0  N
4, 2,2.0  N
4,-3,3.0  N
4,-3,3.0  N
5,-1,1.0  N
5,-1,1.0  N
5, 1,0.5  N
5, 1,0.5  N
5,-2,1.0  N
5,-2,1.0  N
Te
Kr 5
4, 2,2.0  N
4, 2,2.0  N
4,-3,3.0  N
4,-3,3.0  N
5,-1,1.0  N
5,-1,1.0  N
5, 1,1.0  N
5, 1,1.0  N
5,-2,1.0  N
5,-2,1.0  N
Fe
Ar 3
3, 2,2.0  N
3, 2,2.0  N
3,-3,2.5  N
3,-3,0.0  N
4,-1,1.0  N
4,-1,0.5  N
Fe
Ar 3
3, 2,2.0  N
3, 2,2.0  N
3,-3,0.0  N
3,-3,2.5  N
4,-1,0.5  N
4,-1,1.0  N
****

To generate case.inclmcopy with "afminput", I provide the operation to change the first Fe to the second. This is case.inclmcopy:

   4                                              NUMBER of ATOMS to CHANGE
   1   1                                          INTERCHANGE these ATOMS
 -1.00000000000  0.00000000000  0.00000000000   -1    0    0 0.00000000     SYMMETRY OPERATION
  0.00000000000  1.00000000000  0.00000000000    0   -1    0 0.00000000
  0.00000000000  0.00000000000 -1.00000000000    0    0    1 0.00000000
  12                                              NUMBER of LM to CHANGE SIGN
  1 1    1 1 -1.00
 -2 2   -2 2 -1.00
  3 1    3 1 -1.00
  3 3    3 3 -1.00
 -4 2   -4 2 -1.00
 -4 4   -4 4 -1.00
  5 1    5 1 -1.00
  5 3    5 3 -1.00
  5 5    5 5 -1.00
 -6 2   -6 2 -1.00
 -6 4   -6 4 -1.00
 -6 6   -6 6 -1.00
   2   2                                          INTERCHANGE these ATOMS
 -1.00000000000  0.00000000000  0.00000000000   -1    0    0 0.00000000     SYMMETRY OPERATION
  0.00000000000  1.00000000000  0.00000000000    0   -1    0 0.00000000
  0.00000000000  0.00000000000 -1.00000000000    0    0    1 0.00000000
  12                                              NUMBER of LM to CHANGE SIGN
  1 1    1 1 -1.00
 -2 2   -2 2 -1.00
  3 1    3 1 -1.00
  3 3    3 3 -1.00
 -4 2   -4 2 -1.00
 -4 4   -4 4 -1.00
  5 1    5 1 -1.00
  5 3    5 3 -1.00
  5 5    5 5 -1.00
 -6 2   -6 2 -1.00
 -6 4   -6 4 -1.00
 -6 6   -6 6 -1.00
   3   3                                          INTERCHANGE these ATOMS
 -1.00000000000  0.00000000000  0.00000000000   -1    0    0 0.00000000     SYMMETRY OPERATION
  0.00000000000  1.00000000000  0.00000000000    0   -1    0 0.00000000
  0.00000000000  0.00000000000 -1.00000000000    0    0    1 0.00000000
  12                                              NUMBER of LM to CHANGE SIGN
  1 1    1 1 -1.00
 -2 2   -2 2 -1.00
  3 1    3 1 -1.00
  3 3    3 3 -1.00
 -4 2   -4 2 -1.00
 -4 4   -4 4 -1.00
  5 1    5 1 -1.00
  5 3    5 3 -1.00
  5 5    5 5 -1.00
 -6 2   -6 2 -1.00
 -6 4   -6 4 -1.00
 -6 6   -6 6 -1.00
   4   5                                          INTERCHANGE these ATOMS   
  1.00000000000  0.00000000000  0.00000000000    1    0    0 0.00000000     SYMMETRY OPERATION
  0.00000000000  1.00000000000  0.00000000000    0    1    0 0.00000000
  0.00000000000  0.00000000000  1.00000000000    0    0    1 0.00000000
   0                                              NUMBER of LM to CHANGE SIGN
   1   0   0   0.50000
   0   1   0   0.50000
   0   0   1   0.00000
 The symmetry operation above is one of the operations of the NM-supergroup
 missing in the AFM-subgroup (transfers spin-up into spin-dn atom)
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