[Wien] a note on lattice parameter optimization

[tran at theochem.tuwien.ac.at]

Hi,

Did you use mBJ to calculate the band gap in both procedures?

FT

On Thursday 2018-02-08 09:35, Dr. K. C. Bhamu wrote:

>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:35:08
>From: Dr. K. C. Bhamu <kcbhamu85 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <Wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>Subject: [Wien] a note on lattice parameter optimization
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>Hello,
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>Using experimental lattice parameters(a Ang), I optimized the structure with two options.
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>1. Directly optimized the structure without min_lapw ... and the optimized lattice parameters are in the vicinity of Exp a (~0.01 Ang accuracy) and the calculated band gap (from mBJ2) is in agreement with reported value ~0.3 eV less.
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>2. First relaxed the structure and then optimized this relaxed structure (without min_lapw ....). In this case the optimized lattice parameters are reduced by ~0.05 Ang and the band gap vanished or largely reduced.
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>Why is the second way of doing band structure not working?
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>I tested it on many systems. In some case system became metal and in some cases band gap largely reduced when  I used the fully relaxed structure for optimization.
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>Thanks,
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>Bhamu
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