[Wien] problems with convergence of SCF for AFM HoPtBi

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Mon Nov 5 16:11:40 CET 2018


Switch to TEMP 0.006, this should help convergence.

On 11/5/18 3:53 PM, Kefeng wang wrote:
> Dear Professor Laurence Marks,
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your great suggestions. I use runsp to perform the 
> calculations. In additon, could you kindly tell me where I can get the 
> information for HDLO?
> 
> 
> 
> Moments for spin-up Ho  for the last 20 cycles are as follows:
> 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.77299 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.76265 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75577 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75164 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75338 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75128 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75945 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75596 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75285 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75474 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75939 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75724 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.75283 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74206 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74114 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74064 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74125 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74089 
> :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74351 :MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT 
> IN SPHERE 3 = 3.74294
> 
> 
> What can we get from that? I am confused. Due to the limit of the size 
> of mail, I will show the change of Fermi energy in the next mail.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Wang
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 4:35 PM Kefeng wang <wangkf80 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wangkf80 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all,
> 
>     I am using wien17.1 to perform the DFT calculations for  HoPtBi. For
>     the Non-magnetic case, the convergence for the SCF calculation has
>     been achieved using 8000 k points while for the AFM case, it is not
>     convergent at all using 4096 k points after 100 iterations. The
>     charge and energy keep fluctuating. However, for GdPtBi with the
>     same lattice structure and AFM order, the corresponding calculations
>     are convergent.  I felt very confused. Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> 
>     The struct file for HoPtBi is shown below:
> 
>     R   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  6 160 R3m
>     MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=bohr
>        8.860595  8.860595 43.407874 90.000000 90.000000120.000000
>     ATOM  -1: X=0.87500000 Y=0.87500000 Z=0.87500000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Pt1        NPT=  781  R0=.000005000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  78.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>     ATOM  -2: X=0.37500000 Y=0.37500000 Z=0.37500000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Pt2        NPT=  781  R0=.000005000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  78.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>     ATOM  -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Ho1        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  67.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>     ATOM  -4: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.50000000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Ho2        NPT=  781  R0=.000010000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  67.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.                   
>       0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>     ATOM  -5: X=0.75000000 Y=0.75000000 Z=0.75000000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Bi1        NPT=  781  R0=.000005000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  83.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>     ATOM  -6: X=0.25000000 Y=0.25000000 Z=0.25000000
>                MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4
>     Bi2        NPT=  781  R0=.000005000 RMT= 2.50000     Z:  83.
>     LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000
>                           0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000
>         6      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>             1
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>             2
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>             3
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>             4
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>             5
>       0 0 1 0.00000000
>       0 1 0 0.00000000
>       1 0 0 0.00000000
>             6
> 
>     Best,
>     Wang
> 
> 
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