[Wien] [SPAM?] LSDA+U calculation with/without SOC of GdSb with U on both d and f orbitals

Hung Yu Yang yanghw at bc.edu
Thu Oct 13 21:10:17 CEST 2016


Dear wien2k users,

I am using wien2k 14.2 version to try to reproduce the GdSb calculation in
the following paper (see FIG.5 and FIG.6):

http://journals.aps.org.proxy.bc.edu/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.085108

I first did the calculation without SOC (LDA+spin-polarized+U), with the
following .indm file:

------------------ top of file: case.indm --------------------
-12. Emin cutoff energy
1 number of atoms for which density matrix is calculated
1 2  2 3 index of 1st atom, number of L’s, L1
0 0 r-index, (l,s)-index
------------------- bottom of file ------------------------

Similar changes were done in .inorb file. The result is satisfactory in
this case, as can be seen in the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnqxvpgu3a8e3zg/GdSb_BS_woSOC_sp_d_f_dandf.pdf?dl=0

In the two panels at the bottom, the gap around EF was open (from U on d)
and the f band was pushed down, which means the effects of U on both d and
f orbitals are well-considered.

Then I tried to do the calculation with SOC (LDA+spin-polarized+U+SOC), and
the result can be seen in the following link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6cfbwu7yxcqxgsm/GdSb_SOC_bs.pdf?dl=0

At the bottom right panel, although I tried to use the similar setting to
put U on both d and f, the effect of U only showed up on d orbital (f
orbital is not pushed down.) When I checked the .outputorbup file, it shows



Calculation of orbital potential for spin block: up
 Type of potential:            LDA+U
 Vorb applied to atom   1 orbit. numbers   2   3
  Fully Localized Limit method
        Atom  1 L=  2 U=  0.250 J=  0.000 Ry
        Atom  1 L=  3 U=  0.600 J=  0.000 Ry
  end of OP input
 STRUCT file read
  VSP read
 Atom  1 L= 2 spin of potential; Lx, Ly, Lz=  0.000000  0.000000 -0.025894
 Atom  1 L= 3 spin of potential; Lx, Ly, Lz=  0.000000  0.000000  0.003863
 atom  1 L= 2 projection of L on M=   -0.012830
 atom  1 L= 3 projection of L on M=    0.158098
  natom           1
  No old potential found
 Slater integrals F0, F2, F4   0.250   0.000   0.000 Ry
 Ecorr    0.00011 Mult  1 Eldau    0.01465 Edc   -0.03123 Tr(rho.V)
 0.03016
:EORB:   0.00011466

  Atom           1  spin up   potential real part (Ry)
:VORBr  1_ 1   M= -2   0.10784   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000  -0.00757
:VORBr  1_ 1   M= -1   0.00000   0.11683   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  0   0.00000   0.00000   0.10180   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  1   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.11707   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  2  -0.00757   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.11096

  Potential imaginary part (Ry)
:VORBi  1_ 1   M= -2   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M= -1   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  0   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  1   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  2   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
 Slater integrals F0, F2, F4, F(6)   0.600   0.000   0.000   0.000 Ry
 Ecorr    8.12337 Mult  1 Eldau   12.60579 Edc   12.95258 Tr(rho.V)
-1.99387
:EORB:   8.12337448

  Atom           1  spin up   potential real part (Ry)
:VORBr  1_ 1   M= -3  -0.29070   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00013
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M= -2   0.00000  -0.28992   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00006   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M= -1   0.00000   0.00000  -0.28909   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00009
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  0   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000  -0.28846   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  1   0.00013   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000  -0.28872
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  2   0.00000   0.00006   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
 -0.28999   0.00000
:VORBr  1_ 1   M=  3   0.00000   0.00000   0.00009   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000  -0.29155

  Potential imaginary part (Ry)
:VORBi  1_ 1   M= -3   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M= -2   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M= -1   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  0   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  1   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  2   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000
:VORBi  1_ 1   M=  3   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000



This seems to mean that the program actually read both U values on the two
orbital, but somehow it did nothing to the f orbital in the band structure
when SOC is included.

The way I did the calculation is that I first do a LDA+SOC+spin-polarized
scf calculation; then I made the .inorb and .indm files, cp .indm .indmc,
initso_lapw again, and run the LDA+SOC+spin-polarized+U scf calculation. I
tried to search the mailing list but not much was done on the case in which
one has U on 2 orbitals and includes SOC as well. I'm not sure this is a
bug or I am actually doing something wrong, could anyone help me with this
issue? Any information, comment or suggestion will be very helpful and
appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

Hung-Yu
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