[Wien] wien2k with conventional cell?

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Oct 29 10:26:06 CET 2013


Change the angles slightly during init_lapw and change them back 
afterwards.
The initialization will then be done without symmetry.

On 10/29/2013 10:18 AM, Gang Li wrote:
> Dear Prof. Blaha
>
>     Thank you for your reply. This is actually a 'have-to' in my case,
> as these unit cell vectors are convenient for me to construct a slab
> (from the maximal localized wannier function) with surface at
> z-direction. I have tried with primitive cell in wien2k and rotated the
> basis after I got the full hopping matrix from wannier90, however the
> quality of the surface state structure is worse than what I obtained (in
> a pseudopotential code) with these "convenient" unit vectors for which I
> do not need to rotate basis.
>
>      I still have a question: even if I use P lattice and indicate a, b,
> c and every angles, wien2k probably would still suggest me a new
> structure after the symmetry analysis which (very possibly) changes the
> unit cell vectors back to the primitive ones. How can I continue with my
> initial structure without encountering any problem if I do not accept
> the suggested structure from wien2k?
>
> thanks,
> Gang
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Peter Blaha
> <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
>
>     In WIEN2k you cannot input a bravais matrix directly.
>
>     If you really need to do this in such a cell (why at all ????) , you
>     have to use a "P" cell and give a,b,c (a/sqrt(2)) and
>     alpha,beta,gamma (as angles between your basis vectors).
>     In addition you have to transform the positions of As into fractions
>     of these vectors....
>
>
>     On 10/29/2013 09:13 AM, Gang Li wrote:
>
>         Dear all,
>
>               As a follow-up question, taking GaAs as an example, if I
>         actually
>         want to work with an unit cell with the following lattice vectors:
>                 a1 = a*( 0.5, 0.5, 0.0),
>                 a2 = a*(-0.5, 0.5, 0.0),
>                 a3 = a*( 0.0, 0.5, 0.5),
>         which contains only one Ga and one As atoms in each unit cell,
>         at positions:
>                 Ga = (0.0,   0.0,    0.0),
>                 As = (0.25, -0.25,  0.5),
>         what should I do then?
>
>               This is different from the primitive cell and also only
>         contains
>         the one Ga and As atoms, thus, it is not possible for me to relabel
>         atoms to reduce the symmetry. Is there any way to run wien2k
>         with these
>         unit vectors?
>
>         best,
>         Gang
>
>         On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Gang Li <gangli.pku at gmail.com
>         <mailto:gangli.pku at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:gangli.pku at gmail.com <mailto:gangli.pku at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Dear Oleg
>
>                  Thank you so much. This is exactly what I want to know.
>         Once a
>              time, I thought to have wien2k to skip the symmetry analysis,
>              however, I encountered some other problem originated from
>         doing so.
>              Your suggestion is much better.
>
>              thanks,
>              Gang
>
>              On 28 Oct 2013, at 22:22, Oleg Rubel <orubel at lakeheadu.ca
>         <mailto:orubel at lakeheadu.ca>
>              <mailto:orubel at lakeheadu.ca <mailto:orubel at lakeheadu.ca>>>
>         wrote:
>
>               > Hello,
>               >
>               > here is an example of structure file for GaAs. It has a
>              zinc-blende structure with 2-atom primitive cell or 8-atom
>              conventional cell. The key is to label atoms (Ga1, Ga2,
>         etc.) in
>              order to avoid their recognition as equivalent spices.
>               >
>               > Please note that such a structure will have lower
>         symmetry (in
>              this case just translational symmetry), which will
>         significantly
>              decrease the computational performance. It is therefore not
>         advised
>              to do it without a special need.
>               >
>               > Oleg
>               >
>               > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++__+
>               > GaAs
>               > P   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  8 1 P1
>               > MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=bohr
>               > 10.841631 10.841631 10.841631 90.000000 90.000000 90.000000
>               > ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > Ga1        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 31.0
>               > 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= 8
>               > Ga2        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 31.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -3: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.50000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > Ga3        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 31.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -4: X=0.00000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.50000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > Ga4        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 31.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -5: X=0.25000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.25000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > As1        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 33.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -6: X=0.75000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.25000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > As2        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 33.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -7: X=0.75000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.75000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > As3        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 33.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               > ATOM  -8: X=0.25000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.75000000
>               >          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 8
>               > As4        NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    2.0000   Z: 33.0
>               > LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>               >                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>               >   1      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS
>               > 1 0 0 0.00000000
>               > 0 1 0 0.00000000
>               > 0 0 1 0.00000000
>               >       1
>               >
>               > On 28/10/2013 4:06 PM, Gang Li wrote:
>               >> Dear wien2k experts:
>               >>
>               >>    I am wondering if it is possible for wien2k to run with
>              conventional
>               >> cell instead of primitive cell?  If it is, could anyone
>         figure
>              out to me
>               >> how this is realized in practice.
>               >>
>               >> thanks,
>               >> Gang
>               >>
>               >>
>               >>
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