[Wien] "LAPW2: semicore band-ranges too large" error in LSDA+SO

Dibyendu DEY ddey3 at asu.edu
Mon Feb 3 03:51:11 CET 2020


Dear Prof. Blaha,

Thank you so much for your suggestion. It worked.

Yes, the system symmetry has been reduced, and the number of non-equivalent
atoms increases with 1 0 0 magnetization direction.

I am using WIEN2k_18.2.

Yours sincerely,
Dibyendu

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:23 AM Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:

> Are you using the most recent WIEN2k version ?
>
> There were a couple of bugs fixed in symmetso and init_so.
>
> Anyway, with this magnetization direction your symmetry has been reduced
> and maybe even the number of non-equivalent atoms has been increased.
>
> I suggest that   AFTER init_so  (spin-polarized !), you:
>
> rm case.inst
> instgen  (maybe with -ask)
> x lstart
> x dstart; x dstart -up; x dstart -dn
> runsp
> save ...
> runsp -so
> save
> runsp -so -orb
>
>
> On 1/29/20 8:05 PM, Dibyendu DEY wrote:
> > Dear Prof. Blaha,
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
> > I have tried the procedure you mentioned in your earlier mail, but I am
> > getting the same error if I choose the magnetization axis 1 0 0.
> >
> > With regards,
> > Dibyendu
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:55 AM Peter Blaha
> > <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     I suggest you move the saved lsda calculation (no so) to a new
> >     directory, restore it and do the init_so with the correct
> magnetization
> >     direction again.
> >
> >
> >     On 1/27/20 9:37 PM, Dibyendu DEY wrote:
> >      > Dear Wien2k users,
> >      >
> >      > Recently, I performed DFT calculations on VI3 monolayer in
> >     Wien2k-18.2.
> >      >
> >      > With spin-orbit coupling, if I choose the magnetization axis
> >     along 0 0 1
> >      > (easy axis), LSDA+SO, and LSDA+SO+U calculations run perfectly
> >     without
> >      > any error, and I get desirable values of the magnetic (1.87
> >     \mu_B) and
> >      > orbital moments (-1.08 \mu_B) at the V site. However, if I choose
> >     the
> >      > magnetization axis to be 1 0 0, LSDA+SO calculations stop with the
> >      > following error at the beginning.
> >      >
> >      > LAPW2: semicore band-ranges too large
> >      > cp: cannot stat ‘.in.tmp’: No such file or directory
> >      > set: No match.
> >      >
> >      > We found large QTL-B values cause this problem. I changed the
> energy
> >      > parameters for the respective atom and L value in case.in1 file,
> >     but I
> >      > could not able to resolve the issue.
> >      >
> >      > Original case.struct and case.in1 files have been attached.
> >      > In calculations, RKmax value was set to 7.0.
> >      >
> >      > Any suggestions in this regard would be appreciated.
> >      >
> >      > With best regards,
> >      > Dibyendu
> >      > --
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State University *
*Tempe, AZ 85287, United States*
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