[Wien] SCF and symmetry

Bruno Landeros brunolanderos at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 1 08:36:14 CET 2015


Yes, there was a WARNING in the total energies.


RKM for the NOSYM is 3.18 and 3.57 for the symmetric.

Is this the reason? Should I increase it?






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De: pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Enviado el: ‎martes‎, ‎1‎ de ‎diciembre‎ de ‎2015 ‎01‎:‎23‎ ‎a. m.
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One more thought:

Since these are large cells and one has inversion and the other not, 
could it be that due to size-limitations of NMATMAX the complex case (no 
symmetry) used a much lower RKMAX ? You also should see a WARNING in 
your total energies.

grep :RKM  case.scf   for the two cases.

On 12/01/2015 08:03 AM, Bruno Landeros wrote:
> The first time I generated the Nosymm structure file was by using the 76
> posiciones generated by a first symmetric scf calculation (no coordinate
> optimization), so the same coordinates where used in both cases.
>
> To be sure, I run again the Nosymm structure file but accepted the new
> structfile suggested by the SGROUP program, which detected the corrected
> symmetry and this gave the energy I just mentioned here, so in principle
> they are equivalent.
>
> Would you like me to send you the case.struct files with the
> specifications I gave with init_lapw?
>
> Enviado desde Correo de Windows
>
> *De:* pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
> *Enviado el:* ‎martes‎, ‎1‎ de ‎diciembre‎ de ‎2015 ‎12‎:‎53‎ ‎a. m.
> *Para:* wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
> <mailto:wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>
> No. This is a huge E-difference which must come from something very
> severe. Did you compare the distances in the 2 case.outputnn file or
> compare the structures in xcrysden.
>
> On 12/01/2015 07:37 AM, Bruno Landeros wrote:
>  > Dear Peter:
>  >
>  > Yes, my mistake. First energy (no symmetry) is
>  > -5752.55335845 Ry.
>  > while second energy is
>  > -5752.17735109 Ry.
>  >
>  > Since cell parameters are note small (12.994513, 25.002400, 17.381701
> Bohr)
>  > and I was testing convergence I asked for just 1 K point in both cases.
>  > May be this the origin of the discrepancy?
>  >
>  > Greetings,
>  >
>  > Bruno
>  >
>  >
>  > Enviado desde Correo de Windows
>  >
>  > *De:* pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>  > *Enviado el:* ‎martes‎, ‎1‎ de ‎diciembre‎ de ‎2015 ‎12‎:‎16‎ ‎a. m.
>  > *Para:* wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>  > <mailto:wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>  >
>  > The energies you posted are identical !
>  >
>  > Anyway: I hope you did not just copy the case.klist file from the low to
>  > the high-symmetry case ??
>  >
>  > Otherwise: send me your 2 struct files together with the description of
>  > the chosen calculational parameters (everything which is non-default) to
>  > my private email.
>  >
>  > Am 01.12.2015 um 03:00 schrieb Bruno Landeros:
>  >  > I'm studying a molecular crystal in which two different molecules form
>  >  > an 1:1 adduct. There are 2 molecules of each kind (4 in total) in the
>  >  > unit cell. There are 19 atoms in the asymmetric unit, and since it
>  >  > belongs to the P21/c spacegroup, a total of 76 atoms are contained in
>  >  > the unit cell. I was trying to find a possible mistake when
> calculating
>  >  > interaction energies and I found the next problem:
>  >  >
>  >  > If I calculate the SCF by manually inserting the 76 positions and
> giving
>  >  > it a P1 symmetry the energy converged to
>  >  > -5752.17735109 Ry.
>  >  >
>  >  > If I calculate the SCF by inserting the 19 atoms of the asymmetric
> unit
>  >  > with the correct symmetry and let the program to generate the rest of
>  >  > the positions (which where exactly the same as when inserted
> manually),
>  >  > the same functional,  same RMT, same K points and same convergence
>  >  > criteria the energy converged to
>  >  > -5752.17735109 Ry.
>  >  >
>  >  > Transforming the energy difference between the 2 calculations
> gives 195
>  >  > kcal/mol. The same happened when doing the same for other systems.
>  >  >
>  >  > My question is, ¿shouldn't I get the same energy in both calculations
>  >  > since it's the same system, same coordinates and the input was
> prepared
>  >  > equally except for the symmetry?
>  >  > Since I'm trying to calculate interaction energies using different
>  >  > subsystems, some with and some without symmetry, this is a relevant
>  >  > question to my research.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > Greetings,
>  >  >
>  >  > Bruno L
>  >  >
>  >  >
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