[Wien] DFTD3 h-BN testing

tran at theochem.tuwien.ac.at tran at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Jun 22 09:21:37 CEST 2016


Hi,

The intralayer lattice constant was kept fixed at about
a=2.503 Angstrom (it would not really make sense to fix the volume
for such a plot). The interlayer distance corresponds to half of the
lattice constant c. I attached the struct file of hBN that I used.

F. Tran

On Tuesday 2016-06-21 21:14, Tristan de Boer wrote:

>Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 21:14:50
>From: Tristan de Boer <tristan.deboer at usask.ca>
>Reply-To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>To: wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>Subject: [Wien] DFTD3 h-BN testing
>
> Hi,
> I've installed DFTD3 and am attempting to make sure it's installed correctly, 
> so I've been attempting to reproduce slide 20 of F. Tran's 2015 WIEN2k 
> workshop. Are the cells in this slide held to a constant volume as the 
> interlayer distance is changed, or is the unit cell volume changing as well? 
> I've tried calculations with the PBE functional both ways, with and without 
> DFTD3, I can't reproduce this figure.
>
> If I hold the volume constant and change the interlayer spacing, I get 
> something resembling the PBE+D3 line in total energy, with and without DFTD3 
> (assuming :ENE = :ENE(no dispersion corrections) + :EDFTD3). If I simply 
> change the interlayer spacing I get a monotonic decrease in total unit cell 
> energy with increasing spacing without the minimum shown in the slide both 
> with and without :EDFTD3. For both cases, :EDFTD3 is about -0.03 -- -0.04 Ry.
>
> Alternatively, since :EDFTD3 matches the output in case.scfdftd3, should I 
> simply ignore the issue and assume things are working well?
> Regards,
> Tristan
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hBN                                                                            
H   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  2 194 P63/mmc                                     
             RELA                                                              
  4.729984  4.729984 13.000000 90.000000 90.000000120.000000                   
ATOM  -1: X=0.33333334 Y=0.66666666 Z=0.75000000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 4
      -1: X=0.66666666 Y=0.33333334 Z=0.25000000
B 1        NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT= 1.29        Z:  5.0                   
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
ATOM  -2: X=0.33333334 Y=0.66666666 Z=0.25000000
          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 4
      -2: X=0.66666666 Y=0.33333334 Z=0.75000000
N 1        NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT= 1.43        Z:  7.0                   
LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
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