[Wien] error in x lstart

Gavin Abo gsabo at crimson.ua.edu
Sun Aug 24 20:32:45 CEST 2014


Looks to me that your atomic positions are in the hexagonal setting, 
when they need to be in the rhombohedral setting 
[http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg05554.html] 
and your hexagonal lattice constants seem fine.

On 8/24/2014 11:01 AM, Minghao Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> *I encountered a problem while I run the initialization process for 
> LiCoO2 structure through w2web.*
> *
> *
> *Here is my structure file:*
>
> LiCoO2
> R   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  3166_R-3m
> MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=ang
>   5.310133  5.310133 26.550663 90.000000 90.000000120.000000
> ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
>           MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
> Li         NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.0100   Z:  3.0
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                      0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                      0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -2: X=0.00000001 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.50000000
>           MULT= 3          ISPLIT= 4
>       -2: X=0.00000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.00000001
>       -2: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000001 Z=0.00000000
> Co         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.3000   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  -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.24000000
>           MULT= 6          ISPLIT= 8
>       -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.76000000
>       -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.24000000 Z=0.00000000
>       -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.76000000 Z=0.00000000
>       -3: X=0.24000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
>       -3: X=0.76000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:  8.0
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                      0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>                      1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>   12      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
>        1
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
>        2
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
>        3
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
>        4
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>        5
>  0 0-1 0.00000000
>  0-1 0 0.00000000
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>        6
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>        7
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>        8
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>        9
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>       10
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>       11
>  1 0 0 0.00000000
>  0 1 0 0.00000000
>  0 0 1 0.00000000
>       12
>
> *I set the RMT value automatically with 0% reduce. Everything is fine 
> until I did the lstart initialization. If I set a higher cutoff energy 
> between -6Ry~-10Ry, it always warn me that some of the atom core level 
> leakage like following:*
>
>   SELECT XCPOT:
>    recommended: 13: PBE-GGA (Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96)
>                  5: LSDA
>                 11: WC-GGA (Wu-Cohen 2006)
>                 19: PBEsol-GGA (Perdew etal. 2008)
>    SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
>    recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
>    ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
>    (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
>
> :WARNING:     0.106  Co   CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
> :WARNING:     touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core density superposition
> :WARNING:     Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation energy
> :WARNING:     ORBITAL:  3S     -7.621    -7.378
>
> :WARNING:     0.011  O    CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
> :WARNING:     touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core density superposition
> :WARNING:     Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation energy
> LSTART ENDS
> 0.212u 0.056s 0:00.31 83.8%	0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> *But if I further lower down the cutoff energy, like -11 or -10.5 it 
> will give the error like following:*
>
>   SELECT XCPOT:
>    recommended: 13: PBE-GGA (Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96)
>                  5: LSDA
>                 11: WC-GGA (Wu-Cohen 2006)
>                 19: PBEsol-GGA (Perdew etal. 2008)
>    SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
>    recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
>    ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
>    (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
>    SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
>    recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
>    ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
>    (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
> forrtl: severe (24): end-of-file during read, unit -4, file stdin
> Image              PC                Routine            Line        Source
> lstart             00000000004AD8FD  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             00000000004AC405  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             000000000045B510  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             0000000000426E6F  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             00000000004266A2  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             000000000043FB9B  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             000000000043D6EA  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             000000000040F6B2  MAIN__                     67  lstart.f
> lstart             000000000040316C  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> libc.so.6          0000003200A1D9C4  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> lstart             0000000000403079  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
> 0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%	0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
> error: command   /home1/02212/miz016/src/WIENROOT/lstart lstart.def   failed
> *Can any one give a hint to deal with this kind of problem?*
> Thanks in advance and Best regards,
>
> -- 
> Minghao, Zhang, Graduate Student.
> Department of NanoEngineering
> University of California, San Diego
> SME Building, room 242C
> 9500 Gilman Drive
> La Jolla, CA 92093
> Cell: 858-956-9058
> e-mail: miz016 at eng.ucsd.edu <mailto:kjcarroll at ucsd.edu>
> Group website: http://ne.ucsd.edu/smeng/
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