[Wien] Ghost band error

Gavin Abo gsabo at crimson.ua.edu
Sun Jul 12 20:32:16 CEST 2020


I would suggest referring to previous advice given in the mailings list.

For example, there are different ways in which core leakage might need 
to be addressed:

https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg19495.html

You might try swapping the RMT of O and P atoms:

https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg18031.html

Li 1.56
Ni 2.05
P 1.36
O 1.52
F 1.88

Since your RMT of Li, Ni, P, O, and F are of various sizes and some are 
on the side of being small, you probably have one of those calculations 
that more difficult to setup and converge:

https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09842.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg11853.html

This might be common problem [ 
http://susi.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/reg_user/faq/qtlb.html ] when working 
with structures having P with a small RMT:

https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg01534.html

If I read correctly, -9.2 instead -6.0 as the separation energy in 
lstart and removal of a second l=0 line in case.in1 for handling P with 
a small RMT was used in the thread of posts at:

https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg11933.html


On 7/12/2020 11:24 AM, shamik chakrabarti wrote:
> Dear Prof. Gavin,
>
>                          I am sorry for the previous reply. Yes, 
> after,  grep WARNING *.outputs the following warnings appeared
>
> WARNING:   0.038 P    CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
> :WARNING:     0.038  P    CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
> :WARNING: touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core density superposition
> :WARNING: Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation energy
> :WARNING:     ORBITAL:  2P*    -9.172    -9.141
> :WARNING:     ORBITAL:  2P     -9.104    -9.074
> WARNING:   0.038 P    CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
>
> Should I go for touch .lcore now...
>
> with regards,
>
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 21:48, shamik chakrabarti 
> <shamik15041981 at gmail.com <mailto:shamik15041981 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am using w2web. After following your suggestion, I got the
>     following message in w2web page.
>
>      Commandline: : grep WARNING *.outputst
>     Program input is: ""
>
>
>     Execute another command line:
>
>
>     Type of execution:
>
>     Also, in case.outputst there is no warning message displayed.
>
>     with regards,
>
>     On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 21:30, Gavin Abo <gsabo at crimson.ua.edu
>     <mailto:gsabo at crimson.ua.edu>> wrote:
>
>         It might only show that in a terminal.  Are you using w2web,
>         are the warnings in the Li2NiPO4F_check.outputst file?
>
>         1. In w2web, click on "command line" under Execution in the
>         left menu.
>
>         2. In the "Execute a command line" box, type: grep WARNING
>         *.outputst
>
>         3. Click the Run button
>
>         Does it show any "CORE electron leak out of MT-sphere"
>         warnings then?
>
>         Try referring to screenshots in temporary file
>         at:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CwHww6U2ChMU2QtxqtLga5lMpIJ6sGIB/view?usp=sharing
>
>         On 7/12/2020 9:07 AM, shamik chakrabarti wrote:
>>         Dear Prof. Gavin,
>>
>>                               I am using  wien 2k 19.1 & surprisingly
>>         I am not getting any error regarding core-leakage. (I have
>>         kept initial reduction of RMT to 0%) The output is as given
>>         below.
>>         Commandline: x lstart -up
>>         Program input is: "13 -6.0 "
>>
>>           SELECT XCPOT:
>>           recommended: PBE    [(13) GGA of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96]
>>                        LDA    [( 5)]
>>                        WC     [(11)  GGA of Wu-Cohen 2006]
>>                        PBESOL [(19) GGA of Perdew etal. 2008]
>>           SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
>>           recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out
>>         of MT-sphere)
>>           ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization (between 0.97
>>         and 1.0) to select core state
>>         STOP LSTART ENDS
>>         1.4u 0.0s 0:01.45 100.0% 0+0k 0+11872io 0pf+0w
>>
>>         & during 1st iteration, it is showing the ghost band error
>>
>>         with regards,
>>
>>         On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 at 19:49, Gavin Abo <gsabo at crimson.ua.edu
>>         <mailto:gsabo at crimson.ua.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>             Probably you need to mention how you handled the core
>>             leakage issue during initialization (init_lapw) of WIEN2k
>>             19.2 since if that was not addressed it might lead to the
>>             QTL error later during the scf:
>>
>>             username at computername:~/wiendata/Li2NiPO4F_check$ ls
>>             Li2NiPO4F_check.struct
>>             username at computername:~/wiendata/Li2NiPO4F_check$
>>             init_lapw -s lstart
>>              next is lstart
>>              next is lstart
>>              CREATE A NEW Li2NiPO4F_check.inst FILE with PROPER ATOMS
>>              If necessary specify switches for instgen_lapw (or press
>>             ENTER):
>>              -up (default)   -dn   -nm (non-magnetic) -ask
>>             -nm
>>              15 Atoms found:  with labels Li   Li   Li Ni   Ni   P   
>>             P    O    O    O    O    O O    F    F
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 1 : Li
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 2 : Li
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 3 : Li
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 4 : Ni
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 5 : Ni
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 6 : P
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 7 : P
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 8 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 9 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 10 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 11 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 12 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 13 : O
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 14 : F
>>             generate atomic configuration for atom 15 : F
>>             >   lstart    (08:05:05)   SELECT XCPOT:
>>               recommended: PBE    [(13) GGA of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96]
>>                            LDA    [( 5)]
>>                            WC     [(11)  GGA of Wu-Cohen 2006]
>>                            PBESOL [(19) GGA of Perdew etal. 2008]
>>             13
>>               SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
>>               recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks
>>             out of MT-sphere)
>>               ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization (between
>>             0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
>>             -6.0
>>             STOP LSTART ENDS
>>             3.9u 0.0s 0:10.78 37.1% 0+0k 0+11808io 0pf+0w
>>             WARNING:   0.038 P CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
>>             :WARNING:     0.038  P    CORE electrons leak out of
>>             MT-sphere !!!!
>>             :WARNING: touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core
>>             density superposition
>>             :WARNING: Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation
>>             energy
>>             :WARNING:     ORBITAL:  2P*    -9.194 -9.194
>>             :WARNING:     ORBITAL:  2P     -9.126 -9.126
>>             WARNING:   0.038 P    CORE electrons leak out of
>>             MT-sphere !!!!
>>                    check Li2NiPO4F_check.outputst how much core
>>             charge leaks out
>>                    if you continue, file .lcore will be created and
>>             the scf-cycle
>>                    will be run with core-density superposition
>>                    alternatively you can rerun lstart with a smaller
>>             ECORE
>>             -----> continue with kgen or edit the
>>             Li2NiPO4F_check.inst file and rerun lstart (c/e)
>>
>>             On 7/12/2020 7:38 AM, shamik chakrabarti wrote:
>>>             Dear Wien2k users,
>>>
>>>                                        I am trying to run a
>>>             calculation of 72 atomic unit cell & it shows Ghost band
>>>             error at the first iteration.
>>>
>>>             In SCF2 file the following line indicates the error;
>>>
>>>             :WARN : QTL-B value eq.9283.65 in Band of energy
>>>              -3.30070  ATOM=    7  L=  0
>>>
>>>             :WARN : You should change the E-parameter for this atom
>>>             and L-value in case.in1 (or try the -in1new switch)
>>>
>>>
>>>             I am attaching the struct file herewith this mail.
>>>
>>>             Looking forward to hearing from you.
>>>
>>>             with regards,
>>>             -- 
>>>             Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>>>             Research Fellow
>>>             Department of Physics
>>>             Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>>>             Bihta-801103
>>>             Patna
>>>             Bihar, India
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>>
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>>         Research Fellow
>>         Department of Physics
>>         Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>>         Bihta-801103
>>         Patna
>>         Bihar, India
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>     -- 
>     Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>     Research Fellow
>     Department of Physics
>     Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>     Bihta-801103
>     Patna
>     Bihar, India
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
> Research Fellow
> Department of Physics
> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
> Bihta-801103
> Patna
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