[Wien] LDA+U, spin up and down

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Mar 5 18:20:11 CET 2020


I assumed atoms 1-4 are Lu.

The others are oxygens, which depending on their neighborhood to Fe have 
a small up/dn (but in total AFM) moment.

Am 05.03.2020 um 13:38 schrieb Laurence Marks:
> Sorry to disagree with Peter, but I doubt that the Lu are close to right.
> I assume that atoms 10-13 are Lu; 0.3 is much too large.
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> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, 03:02 Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at 
> <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
> 
>     Your :MMI and the :MMT look absolutely ok.
>     The Lu are basically non-magnetic, the O seem to behave
>     antiferromagnetically. It means you should have the same number of
>     spin-up and dn electrons, i.e. you have the same occupations and thus
>     should have a gap in both spin-directions.
> 
>     Maybe you need to converge the scf cycle better (smaller :DIS)
> 
>     After that, if you still have a half-metal, analyse the partial DOS and
>     the band structures to find out which states are at EF.
>     In case of Lu-f, you may need a U also on Lu-4f.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Am 05.03.2020 um 08:37 schrieb Ali Baghizhadeh:
>      > Dear Prof. Blaha
>      >
>      > Thank you.
>      >
>      > In hexagonal structure, LuFeO3 has 6 f.u. per unit cell with 30
>     atoms.
>      > Once I split Fe (6c Wyckoff) to Fe1 and Fe2, it changes space
>     group to
>      > the one with lower symmetry and I am trying to even lower
>     symmetry by
>      > splitting at least oxygen atoms. The final objective is core hole
>     for
>      > EELS calculations, so I do not want multiplicity of atoms.
>      >
>      > The analysis of case.scf shows following results:
>      >
>      > MMT: 0.00012
>      >
>      > MMI:
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI001: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   1    =   -0.00350
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI002: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   2    =   -0.00613
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI003: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   3    =   -0.00768
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI004: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   4    =   -0.00385
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI005: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   5    =    4.02712 (Fe)
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI006: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   6    =   -0.07328
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI007: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   7    =    0.09103
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI008: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   8    =   -0.09647
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI009: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE   9    =    0.10131
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI010: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE  10    =   -0.27719
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI011: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE  11    =    0.26978
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI012: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE  12    =   -0.28291
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI013: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE  13    =    0.29177
>      >
>      > case.scf::MMI014: MAGNETIC MOMENT IN SPHERE  14    =   -4.01690 (Fe)
>      >
>      > Sincerely
>      >
>      > Ali
>      >
>      >
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>      > *From:*Wien <wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>     <mailto:wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> on behalf of Peter
>      > Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
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>      > *Sent:* 04 March 2020 17:16
>      > *To:* wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>     <mailto:wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>      > *Subject:* Re: [Wien] LDA+U, spin up and down
>      >
>      > LuFeO3 has 5 atoms per f.u. with one Fe.
>      >
>      > You have 2 Fe atoms (5 and 14), thus I wonder how you manage to
>     have at
>      > least 14 different atoms per unit cell. Unless the Fe atoms have
>     MULT=2
>      > or higher, you can have at most 10 atoms/cell. So the question is: is
>      > your stoichiometry correct ?
>      >
>      > Also: What are the :MMI and :MMT ? Are the Lu non-magnetic ? Is
>     :MMT~0
>      >
>      > If spin-up .ne. spin-dn it means that some atoms are not AFM ordered
>      > (even when the Fe are).
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Am 04.03.2020 um 15:50 schrieb Ali Baghizhadeh:
>      >> Dear WIEN2k users
>      >>
>      >> I am running spin polarized calculation on LuFeO3 structure,
>     with Fe
>      >> ions having spin up and down in unit cell. I did volume
>      >> optimization/force minimization, and then I used LDA+U to open the
>      >> bandgap. It does work fine for spin up when I plot the density of
>      >> states, but for spin down, it is conductive. I cannot explain this
>      >> behavior, and I do not know how to look for the root/s of the
>     problem.
>      >> Please any comment will be highly appreciated.
>      >>
>      >> Case.inorb file: (Fe1 is atom 5 and Fe2 is atom 14)
>      >>
>      >> 1  2  0                     nmod, natorb, ipr
>      >>
>      >> PRATT  1.0                    BROYD/PRATT, mixing
>      >>
>      >>    5 1 2                          iatom nlorb, lorb
>      >>
>      >>    14 1 2                          iatom nlorb, lorb
>      >>
>      >>    1                              nsic 0..AMF, 1..SIC, 2..HFM
>      >>
>      >>     0.367 0.073        U J (Ry)   Note: you can also use U_eff =
>     U-J and J=0
>      >>
>      >>     0.367 0.073        U J
>      >>
>      >> Sincerely
>      >>
>      >> Ali
>      >>
>      >>
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