[Wien] Fw: The dielectric constant from spin polarirzed calculations has doubled values than that of the non-sp

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Jul 4 09:37:25 CEST 2017


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On 07/03/2017 03:11 PM, Osama Yassin wrote:
> Thanks...
> I hope Wien2k_17 will come with hf+soc enabled..
>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Wien] Fw: The dielectric constant from spin polarirzed
> calculations has doubled values than that of the non-sp
>
> Sorry, I mistyped it. Of course (6+6)/2 is still 6 !!??
> :
> For a metal, the Plasma-frequencies (intraband transitions) for up and
> dn should be added, but then divided by sqrt(2), before using x kram.
>
> This is what the UG says.
>
> And obviously (6.19+6.19)/sqrt(2)=9.xx
>
>
> On 07/03/2017 02:06 PM, Osama Yassin wrote:
>> Going back to the usersguide pages 172-173 and follow the instructions
>> as stated, the outcome of  w_p up/dn is identical (6.1929 eV). Thus the
>> average is still the low!.
>>
>>
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>> Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>> *Sent:* Monday, July 3, 2017 1:44:06 PM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [Wien] Fw: The dielectric constant from spin polarirzed
>> calculations has doubled values than that of the non-sp
>>
>> The usersguide already says:
>>
>> (For a metal, the Plasma-frequencies (intraband transitions) for up and
>> dn should be added, but then divided by 2, before using x kram.)
>>
>> I'll issue an additional hint in the outputjointup/dn file.
>>
>> On 07/03/2017 12:16 PM, Osama Yassin wrote:
>>> Another issue, after fixing the spin-polarized-soc issue, is that the
>>> value of the plasma frequency (w_p) becomes less than  that obtained
>>> from the non-spin polarized calculations.
>>>
>>> For my case, the spin polarized one gave me w_p to be about 6.4 eV while
>>> it is 9.01 eV for the non-sp case.
>>>
>>>
>>> May you have a look into this....
>>>
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>>> *From:* Wien <wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> on behalf of
>>> Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, July 3, 2017 9:52:29 AM
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>>> *Subject:* Re: [Wien] Fw: The dielectric constant from spin polarirzed
>>> calculations has doubled values than that of the non-sp
>>>
>>> Thanks for your report. Your findings are absolutely correct.
>>>
>>> I only fixed the normalization for non-spinpolarized SO calculations,
>>> but not the spin-polarized ones.
>>>
>>> The new opmain.f (SRC_optic) should correct this.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> PS: WIEN2k_17.1 will be released very soon (and will contain all the fixes)
>>>
>>> On 07/02/2017 02:38 PM, Osama Yassin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Prof Blaha
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Two months ago, you have fixed  problems with OPTIC and JOINT files.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg15724.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To calculate the optical properties of Au using DFT+U/EECE , we should
>>>> do spin polarized calculations as we know. However, I noted that the
>>>> values of the dielectric constant from the spin-polarized calculation is
>>>> twice that of the non-spin polarized one.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To confirm my notice I copied case.jointup file to case.joint then
>>>> proceeded as usual. I found that the values obtained from the spin-up
>>>> only is equal to that of the non-spin polarized calculations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Does the step of adding the spin up and the spin down calculation
>>>> produce the correct normalization?.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Osama
>>>>
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