[Wien] Confusion about DOS

shamik chakrabarti shamik15041981 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 17:15:11 CET 2021


Dear Dr. Tran,

                   How to set the number of k points to 4 as there are
three variables nx, ny, nz?

On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 at 21:34, Tran, Fabien <fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> It would be a wrong procedure. There is no option -hf with lapw1.
> "x hf -up" and "x hf -dn" after the two "x lapw1" are missing.
> Also, for a hybrid or Hartree-Fock calculation the scripts run(sp)_lapw do
> a few
> more things (like additional "x lapw2" and some "mv" and "cp") that are
> necessary.
>
> The correct procedure would be:
> (1) save_lapw case_1kpoint
> (2) run_kgenhf_lapw -newklist (for 4 kpoints)
> (3) runsp_lapw -hf -newklist -i 1 (just one iteration)
> (4) x lapw2 -hf -qtl -up
> (5) x lapw2 -hf -qtl -dn
> (6) x tetra -hf -up
> (7) x tetra -hf -dn
>
> Anyway, maybe you don't need to replot the DOS with more k-points. Your
> DOS with 1 k-point should be ok
> since your cell is large.
>
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> From: Wien <wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> on behalf of shamik
> chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2021 4:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Wien] Confusion about DOS
>
> Dear Prof. Blaha,
>
>                  I have 56 atoms supercell & it is converged with one
> k-point. In this regard should I do the following;
> (1) save_lapw case_1kpoint
> (2) run_kgenhf_lapw   for 4 kpoints
> (3) x lapw1 -hf -up
> (4) x lapw1 -hf -dn
> (5) x lapw2 -hf -qtl -up
> (6) x lapw2 -hf -qtl -dn
> (7) x tetra -hf -up
> (8) x tetra -hf -dn
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> with regards,
>
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 at 20:40, Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
> <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
> >     Is this a calculation with just one k-point ?
> >
> > Yes. It is a calculation with one k point
>
> Then everything is clear.
>
> Obviously, with one k-point in the BZ one cannot use the tetrahedra
> method. There are no bands (E as funktion of k), but just one eigenvalue
> "per band". In principle, your DOS consists of a number of
> delta-functions. So tetra switches automatically to a broadening method
> (Gaussian by default) with some broadening (see description of tetra and
> case.int<http://case.int> in UG).
> With a broadening method of course also your VBM (CBM) will be broadened
> and this is what you see in the DOS.
>
> Of course, a single k-point calculation is valid only for very large
> supercells....
>
> >
> >
> >     look into case.outputt
> >
> >
> > Near Fermi Energy:
> > case.outputtup:  0.00086   664.55  40.0000     0.37   0.0208
> > case.outputtdn:  0.00886   851.95  46.0000     0.28   0.0244
> >
> >
> >     These are data without broadening and you should see how many
> electrons
> >     (integral of DOS, 3rd column) are up to EF.
> >
> >     In addition, check out the :BAND  ranges in scf2
> >     You should see a correspondence of those with the DOS (in Ry).
> >
> >     There are 217 bands
> >
> >   Looking forward to your response.
> >
> > with regards,
> >
> >
> >     Am 27.11.2021 um 14:08 schrieb shamik chakrabarti:
> >      > Yes, the gap 2.875 eV is the value found from SCF. I have tried
> with
> >      > broadening 0.001 & also with 0.000...however, it shows no
> >     improvement.
> >      > Is it due to numerical noise & can be neglected?
> >      >
> >      > On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 at 18:30, Tran, Fabien
> >     <fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at<mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at> <mailto:
> fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at<mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at>>
> >      > <mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at<mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at>
> >     <mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at<mailto:fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at>>>>
> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     Is 2.875 eV the value of :GAP in case.scf? If yes, it looks
> >     like if
> >      >     the Fermi energy
> >      >     is not placed correctly on the DOS, because the gap between
> the
> >      >     valence and
> >      >     conduction band seems to be close to 2.875 eV.
> >      >     Could it be due to the broadening in case.int<http://case.int
> >
> >     <http://case.int> <http://case.int <http://case.int>>? Try
> >      >     to execute tetra with a reduced (or no) broadening.
> >      >
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> >      >     Subject: [Wien] Confusion about DOS
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> >      >     Dear Wien2k users,
> >      >
> >      >                         I have plotted DOS for material with
> >     converged
> >      >     SCF using HSE06. I got a bandgap of 2,875 eV. However, in the
> >      >     plotted DOS it can be seen that a small amount of DOS from the
> >      >     valence band is crossing the Fermi energy. I have attached
> >     the plot
> >      >     to this mail.
> >      >
> >      >     Is this crossing can be neglected or I should have to change
> some
> >      >     other parameters like broadening etc.
> >      >
> >      >     with regards,
> >      >
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Department of Physics
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Bihta-801103
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