[Wien] TETRA for 2D system

Laurence Marks laurence.marks at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 14:26:47 CEST 2020


To easily get the gap, from a terminal do "head -20 case.scf2" if non-sp,
similarly case.scf2up/dn. Then calculate it from the highest
occupied/lowest unoccupied.

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 07:23 Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
wrote:

> > If I understand correctly, I need to initialize the bulk case and use
> > its case.grr file for the surface calculation and remove case.in0_grr
> > file from the surface calculation.
> Yes. But not only "initialize, but also run it to scf with mBJ.
>
>
> > With TEMP(S), I can not get the band gap value with the grep command on
> > the terminal. Is there any workaround for this?
>
> Calculate it yourself. You have the "band-ranges" and occupations in the
> scf file. It should be easy to form the difference. (Anyway, the printed
> gap is only ok if the k-point (eg. Gamma) where the gap is minimal is
> also in your klist.
>
> >
> > Is there any tentative date for the new release of the Wien2k version?
>
> No.
>
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Fatima
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 7:03 PM Peter Blaha
> > <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Actually, for a 2D system one should NEVER use TETRA, but always
> >     TEMP/TEMPS. (For systems with a band gap it does not really matter)
> >
> >     mBJ: You should NOT use normal mBJ for surfaces. mBJ uses an average
> >     over the unit cell and this is meaningless for a system with vacuum.
> >
> >     Instead you should use the case.grr file for a corresponding bulk
> >     calculation and remove case.in0_grr from the surface calculation.
> >
> >     PS: In the next release a "local-mBJ" will be available, which can be
> >     applied also to surfaces.
> >
> >     On 10/14/20 9:38 AM, fatima DFT wrote:
> >      > Dear Wien2k Users,
> >      > I am running a 2D case (vacuum in c -direction) with Wien2k 19.1
> >     version.
> >      > The case is relaxed with optB-88-vdw. PBE case was okay but for
> >     mBJ the
> >      > ground state energy is oscillating and the band gap is also
> >      > overestimating by twice.
> >      > After going through, I found that I should use "TEMPS 0.018" [1].
> >      >
> >      > I have two  questions now:
> >      > Can I use the scf case of PBE (finished with TETRA) and update
> TEMPS
> >      > 0.018 in case.in2c for mBJ or I need to do a fresh calculation
> >     starting
> >      > from PBE?
> >      >
> >      > Or should I use PRATT for the first few cycles and then update
> >     TETRA/TEMPS?
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > [1]
> >      >
> >
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> >      > Fatima
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