[Wien] QTL-B Errors with BaFe2P2 and LaFePO

backes at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de backes at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de
Sat Dec 7 11:02:20 CET 2013


Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for my late reply. I did some testing
and had to reduce the sphere of Ba in 0.05 steps, otherwise it wouldn't
converge. The history:

Ba RMT: 2.6
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   91.94070 in Band of energy   2.49025  ATOM=    1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.5
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   80.66238 in Band of energy   2.49566  ATOM=    1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.45
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   76.72307 in Band of energy   2.49840  ATOM=    1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.40
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   70.09921 in Band of energy   2.46753  ATOM=    1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.35
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   13.39159 in Band of energy   2.47040   ATOM=   1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.30
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   11.55270 in Band of energy   2.47314   ATOM=   1  L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.25
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    9.88892 in Band of energy   2.47584   ATOM=   1   L=  1

Ba RMT: 2.20
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    8.89660 in Band of energy   2.46962   ATOM=    2  L=  2

Fe RMT: 2.20
QTL-B VALUE .EQ.    8.39376 in Band of energy    2.48031   ATOM=   1   L=  1

Most likely no ghostbands, but adjust Energy-parameters for this ATOM and L

I think it should be fine now, thanks. Is there a way to speed up the
step-wise reduction of the sphere radius? Maybe by reducing the mixing
parameter? Currently it's 0.2.



> a) Please, do NOT fiddle around with the sphere sizes (with one
> exeption, see below).
>
> b) use   setrmt   and use the recommended spheres, except for Ba. Reduce
> the Ba sphere to 2.2 or even 2.0.
>
> c) A message like that is NOT a problem (at least not in general).
>  >> :E0_0003: E( 0)=   -0.7300   E(BOTTOM)=   -1.868   E(TOP)= -200.000
>
> In particular for small spheres (P) it can easily happen and is intended
> as the mean value of (E-top+E-bottom)/2 might not be a good approximation.
>
> d) If I understand you correctly, your original problems were:
>  >>    QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   64.47342 in Band of energy   2.13826  ATOM=
> 1 L=  1
>
> So they happened at a very high energy (thus are not important for the
> scf-cycle) for atom 1 (Ba) and l=1.
> So first check if you really want the DOS up to such high E-values
> (otherwise you may restrict EMAX in case.in1)??
> Then, the problem occurs with atom 1, l=1, so definitely you have to
> change something for atom 1, (and not for P, which is atom 3).
>
> Atom 1 is Ba, and by default it has quite a large RMT. I suppose this
> lead to these problems and therefore my recommendation to reduce the Ba
> sphere.
>
> If the problems persist after reduction of the Ba sphere, please report
> the E-parameters of Ba (case.scf1 and again the error message).
> Eventually, you have to set the second line of Ba, l=1 to a higher value
> since it is too close to the Ba-p "lo"-line in case.in1.
>
>
> On 12/02/2013 09:53 AM, backes at th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
>> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>
>> I'm currently trying to perform a calculation with Wien2K v11 for the
>> two
>> systems BaFe2P2 and LaFePO. I have problems with Ghostbands and large
>> QTL-Values in both of them. The calculation converges fine, but as soon
>> as
>> I calculate partial charges (lapw2 -qtl), which I need for Projectors on
>> the Fe orbitals, these errors appear.
>>
>> I proceed in the following way (example for BaFe2P2):
>>
>> -set up the .struct file (see below)
>> -initialize Wien2K with default values by runnin init_lapw
>> -run_lapw -p -ec 0.00001 -cc 0.00001
>>
>> This converges without problems, but in the case.scf1 file I get:
>>
>>>           ATOMIC SPHERE DEPENDENT PARAMETERS FOR ATOM  P
>>> :e__0003: OVERALL ENERGY PARAMETER IS    0.4526
>>>           OVERALL BASIS SET ON ATOM IS LAPW
>>> :E0_0003: E( 0)=   -0.7300   E(BOTTOM)=   -1.868   E(TOP)= -200.000
>>
>> The upper energy limit is not found.
>>
>> -Then for example, I run "x lapw2 -qtl", in the case.scf2 file I get:
>>
>>>    QTL-B VALUE .EQ.   64.47342 in Band of energy   2.13826  ATOM=   1
>>> L=  1
>>>     Check for ghostbands or EIGENVALUES BELOW XX messages
>>>     Adjust your Energy-parameters for this ATOM and L (or use -in1new
>> switch), check RMTs  !!!
>>>       NBAND in QTL-file:          77
>>
>> or also this message, when I fiddle around with RMT radii (see below for
>> what I tried)
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    QTL-B VALUE .EQ. ********** in Band of energy  -1.61604  ATOM=  3 L=
>>>  0
>>>     Check for ghostbands or EIGENVALUES BELOW XX messages
>>>     Adjust your Energy-parameters for this ATOM and L (or use -in1new
>> switch), check RMTs  !!!
>>> :WARN : QTL-B value eq.******* in Band of energy  -1.61604  ATOM=  3 L=
>> 0 :WARN : You should change the E-parameter for this atom and L-value in
>> case.in1 (or try the -in1new switch)
>>
>>
>> What I tried so far:
>> -lowered the energy to separate core and valence states from -6.0 to
>> -9.0
>> -added LO's to the P atom in case.in1 (maybe I did this incorrectly)
>> -changed the APW+lo and LO energies in case.in1, like suggested in some
>> other threads (APW+lo being to close to the LO)
>> -Reduced the RMT of P from 2.0 to 1.5 in small steps
>>
>> This didn't resolve the problem and sometimes even didn't converge. Can
>> you suggest what I should try to get rid of these problems?
>> Thank you.
>>
>> best regards,
>> Steffen
>>
>> Here is my case.struct and case.in1 file:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> case.struct:
>> blebleble
>> B   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS   3  139 I4/mmm
>> MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=bohr
>>    7.263162  7.263162 23.474178 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
>> ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
>>            MULT= 1          ISPLIT=-2
>> Ba         NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT=   2.50000   Z:  56.00000
>> 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=0.50000000 Z=0.75000000
>>            MULT= 2          ISPLIT=-2
>>        -2: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.75000000
>> Fe         NPT=  781  R0=.000050000 RMT=   2.25      Z:  26.00000
>> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.7071068-0.7071068 0.0000000
>>                       0.7071068 0.7071068 0.0000000
>>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>> ATOM  -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.65410000
>>            MULT= 2          ISPLIT=-2
>>        -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.34590000
>> P          NPT=  781  R0=.000100000 RMT=   1.50      Z:  15.00000
>> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>>    16      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS
>> ...<snip>.....
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> case.in1:
>> WFFIL  EF=.65262   (WFFIL, WFPRI, ENFIL, SUPWF)
>>    7.00       10    4 (R-MT*K-MAX; MAX L IN WF, V-NMT
>>    0.30    6  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
>> APW/LAPW)
>>   2    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>   2   -6.21      0.001 STOP 1
>>   0   -2.17      0.002 CONT 1
>>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>   1   -1.03      0.002 CONT 1
>>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>    0.30    5  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
>> APW/LAPW)
>>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>   0   -6.27      0.001 STOP 1
>>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>   1   -3.75      0.001 STOP 1
>>   2    0.30      0.005 CONT 1
>>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
>> APW/LAPW)
>>   0   -0.73      0.002 CONT 1
>>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>> K-VECTORS FROM UNIT:4  -12.0       2.5   64   red emin/emax/nband
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
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