[Wien] Ghostbands: pushed energy range in case.in1 to 6.3, does this mean there is a problem?

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Mar 6 07:38:50 CET 2015


I think you have solved the problem very well.

Due to the small P sphere and the fact, that P-s states are relatively
high in energy, the two linearization energies must be quite well
separated. (An alternative would have been to simply remove the second
l=0 line for P and change to "3" lines only:
    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
   1   -8.83      0.001 STOP 1
   0   -0.73      0.002 CONT 1

Two more checks towards the "end of the scf cycle":
In case.scf2 you can find under the line :EPH and :EPL
the "mean" energy of the P-s states. If they are not close to   -0.73
(thats where you expand P-s), change the corresponding input value.

If the energy of the P-s states has gone down in energy at the end of the scf-cycles, you may
checkout if you can go down with this second E-s input line from +6 back to 2.0 or even
back to 0.3  (sometimes such problems are temporary).

PS: If you are interested in Al-2p XPS you should do Slaters transition state !
Put Al 2p into the core and introduce HALF a core hole (compensated by a background).
This gives much better core-eigenvalues that the plain DFT groundstate eigenvalues,
typically lt. 1 % error as compared to 10 % error in comparison with experiment.
In addition, final state screening effects are better accounted for.


Am 06.03.2015 um 00:44 schrieb David Olmsted:
> Ghostbands: pushed energy range in case.in1 to 6.3, does this mean there is
> a problem?
>
> WIEN2k_14.2 (Release 15/10/2014)
> Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2378
> Linux cluster
> Intel 11.1 compilers with mkl.
>
> The purpose of my computation is to compare predicted XPS spectra for Al 2p
> electon
> for different environments of the Al atom in the Al-P-O-H system.
>
> User: beginner!  My first time using WEIN2k.  Moderate amount of VASP work.
>
> Issue: ghostbands
>
> GGA-PBE, 48 atoms, K-mesh 6x6x4, no shift.  Not spin-polarized.
> Initial cell and positions from relaxed GGA-PBE using VASP, same K-mesh.
>
> RMT from w2web StructGen (3% reduction)
>    H  0.63
>    O  1.17
>    P  1.34
>    Al 1.72
>
> RKmax 3.5 to get "effective RKmax" of 6.5 for O.
>
> rmt(min)*kmax =    3.50000
> gmin =   11.11111
> gmax =   20.00000
>
> ------- metavar_v.in0
> TOT  XC_PBE     (XC_LDA,XC_PBESOL,XC_WC,XC_MBJ,XC_REVTPSS)
>
> NR2V      IFFT      (R2V)
>    64 120 108    1.00  1    min IFFT-parameters, enhancement factor, iprint
> ---------
>
> For default -6 Ry cutoff for core states, charge was leaking out of RMT
> sphere
> for P 2p states.  Final iteration in metavar_v.outputst:
>            14         350
>     14   1.85E-07    1.884765E+00   -8.645384E-01   -8.645386E-01   1.72E-07
> -1.67E-08    1.707034E-01    1.707034E-01
>    1S      -153.17082     -153.17082
>    2S       -12.78682      -12.78682
>    2P*       -9.19366       -9.19366
>    2P        -9.12626       -9.12626
>    3S        -1.02668       -1.02668
>    3P*       -0.40735       -0.40735
>    3P        -0.40342       -0.40342
>
> Cutoff set to -9.2 Ry.  (Also tried leaving it at -6.0 Ry and touching
> .lcore.  Similar results.)
>
> ===============================================================
> ---------------------------- Question -------------------------
> ===============================================================
>
> With the original case.in1 file, had messages for the P atom, L=0:
> (All these messages are from the first run of LAPW2.)
>
> metavar_v.scf2_1:   QTL-B VALUE .EQ. 4951.54243 in Band of energy  -6.46139
> ATOM=    2  L=  0
>
> increased 0.3 to 2.3 in case.in1, now:
>
>     QTL-B VALUE .EQ. 1347.97207 in Band of energy  -4.71553  ATOM=    2  L=
> 0
>
> increased it 4.3
>
>     QTL-B VALUE .EQ.  602.53449 in Band of energy  -2.14697  ATOM=    2  L=
> 0
>
> When I increased it to 6.3, no complaints.
>
> The initial scf run has completed with no warnings; the position
> minimization is still running.
>
> In the mailing list search, there are suggestions to increase the (upper)
> energy range to
> 1.3 or "even 2.0" Ry.  That makes me worry about the fact that I had to
> increase it to a much
> larger value.  Does this mean something is going wrong?
>
> -------------------------  End of question ------------------------------
>
> The FAQ mentions the data from scf1, so here that is:
>            ATOMIC SPHERE DEPENDENT PARAMETERS FOR ATOM  P
> :e__0002: OVERALL ENERGY PARAMETER IS   -0.0732
>            OVERALL BASIS SET ON ATOM IS LAPW
> :E1_0002: E( 1)=   -0.0732
>               APW+lo
> :E1_0002: E( 1)=   -8.6799   E(BOTTOM)=   -8.929   E(TOP)=   -8.431  0  1
> 126
>               LOCAL ORBITAL
> :E0_0002: E( 0)=   -0.7300   E(BOTTOM)=   -1.251   E(TOP)= -200.000  2 -1
> 166
>               APW+lo
> :E0_0002: E( 0)=    6.3000
>               LOCAL ORBITAL
>
>
> The case.struct and case.in1 files follow below.
>
> Thanks,
>    David
>
> olmsted at berkeley.edu
> group of Mark Asta
>
> David Olmsted
> Assistant Research Engineer
> Materials Science and Engineering
> 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
> University of California
> Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
>
>
> ================== case.struct ===========================
> metavar_v
>
> P                           12 14_P21/n
>               RELA
>    9.787912 18.527587 15.955713 90.000000 91.334564 90.000000
> ATOM  -1: X=0.40732795 Y=0.32651476 Z=0.28976316
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -1: X=0.59267205 Y=0.67348524 Z=0.71023684
>        -1: X=0.09267205 Y=0.82651476 Z=0.21023684
>        -1: X=0.90732795 Y=0.17348524 Z=0.78976316
> Al         NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.7200   Z:  13.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -2: X=0.90740105 Y=0.14392189 Z=0.17505642
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -2: X=0.09259895 Y=0.85607811 Z=0.82494358
>        -2: X=0.59259895 Y=0.64392189 Z=0.32494358
>        -2: X=0.40740105 Y=0.35607811 Z=0.67505642
> P          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.3400   Z:  15.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -3: X=0.18051105 Y=0.17702773 Z=0.24558658
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -3: X=0.81948895 Y=0.82297227 Z=0.75441342
>        -3: X=0.31948895 Y=0.67702773 Z=0.25441342
>        -3: X=0.68051105 Y=0.32297227 Z=0.74558658
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -4: X=0.87041860 Y=0.20768838 Z=0.00775131
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -4: X=0.12958140 Y=0.79231162 Z=0.99224869
>        -4: X=0.62958140 Y=0.70768838 Z=0.49224869
>        -4: X=0.37041860 Y=0.29231162 Z=0.50775131
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -5: X=0.70101255 Y=0.20706922 Z=0.28467272
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -5: X=0.29898745 Y=0.79293078 Z=0.71532728
>        -5: X=0.79898745 Y=0.70706922 Z=0.21532728
>        -5: X=0.20101255 Y=0.29293078 Z=0.78467272
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -6: X=0.87954320 Y=0.98599620 Z=0.16978428
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -6: X=0.12045680 Y=0.01400380 Z=0.83021572
>        -6: X=0.62045680 Y=0.48599620 Z=0.33021572
>        -6: X=0.37954320 Y=0.51400380 Z=0.66978428
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -7: X=0.11471143 Y=0.44235098 Z=0.26980014
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -7: X=0.88528857 Y=0.55764902 Z=0.73019986
>        -7: X=0.38528857 Y=0.94235098 Z=0.23019986
>        -7: X=0.61471143 Y=0.05764902 Z=0.76980014
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -8: X=0.45235906 Y=0.35662746 Z=0.06686154
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -8: X=0.54764094 Y=0.64337254 Z=0.93313846
>        -8: X=0.04764094 Y=0.85662746 Z=0.43313846
>        -8: X=0.95235906 Y=0.14337254 Z=0.56686154
> O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.1700   Z:   8.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM  -9: X=0.16438936 Y=0.54110395 Z=0.25722319
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>        -9: X=0.83561064 Y=0.45889605 Z=0.74277681
>        -9: X=0.33561064 Y=0.04110395 Z=0.24277681
>        -9: X=0.66438936 Y=0.95889605 Z=0.75722319
> H          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:   1.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM -10: X=0.93237881 Y=0.43889172 Z=0.30403224
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>       -10: X=0.06762119 Y=0.56110828 Z=0.69596776
>       -10: X=0.56762119 Y=0.93889172 Z=0.19596776
>       -10: X=0.43237881 Y=0.06110828 Z=0.80403224
> H          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:   1.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM -11: X=0.31557950 Y=0.33817070 Z=0.98607008
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>       -11: X=0.68442050 Y=0.66182930 Z=0.01392992
>       -11: X=0.18442050 Y=0.83817070 Z=0.51392992
>       -11: X=0.81557950 Y=0.16182930 Z=0.48607008
> H          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:   1.00000
> LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
> ATOM -12: X=0.61281722 Y=0.31450880 Z=0.02582728
>            MULT= 4          ISPLIT= 8
>       -12: X=0.38718278 Y=0.68549120 Z=0.97417272
>       -12: X=0.88718278 Y=0.81450880 Z=0.47417272
>       -12: X=0.11281722 Y=0.18549120 Z=0.52582728
> H          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:   1.00000
> 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
> -1 0 0 0.00000000
>   0-1 0 0.00000000
>   0 0-1 0.00000000
>     1
>   1 0 0 0.00000000
>   0 1 0 0.00000000
>   0 0 1 0.00000000
>     2
> -1 0 0 0.50000000
>   0 1 0 0.50000000
>   0 0-1 0.50000000
>     3
>   1 0 0 0.50000000
>   0-1 0 0.50000000
>   0 0 1 0.50000000
>     4
> ============================ case.in1
> =========================================
> WFFIL  EF=.1268392143   (WFFIL, WFPRI, ENFIL, SUPWF)
>    3.5       10    4 (R-MT*K-MAX; MAX L IN WF, V-NMT
>    0.30    4  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   0   -7.65      0.001 STOP 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1   -4.81      0.001 STOP 1
>    0.30    4  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1   -8.83      0.001 STOP 1
>   0   -0.73      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    6.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    3  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0   -1.46      0.002 CONT 1
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>   1    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    1  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    1  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    1  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
>    0.30    1  0      (GLOBAL E-PARAMETER WITH n OTHER CHOICES, global
> APW/LAPW)
>   0    0.30      0.000 CONT 1
> K-VECTORS FROM UNIT:4  -12.2       1.5   250   emin / de (emax=Ef+de) /
> nband #red
>
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