[Wien] Bader charge

Peter Blaha peter.blaha at tuwien.ac.at
Fri Nov 11 12:30:19 CET 2022


I suggest that you recompile/reinstall   aim  in 21.1, maybe download it 
again.

It is not your input, it but must be a problem with your code.



Am 11.11.2022 um 10:59 schrieb leila mollabashi:
> Dear Prof. Laurence Marks and all,
> 
>> cannot reproduce your  results.
> 
> In addition to the previous link: 
> https://www.mediafire.com/file/o6ceodngk93mh72/aim.rar/file 
> <https://www.mediafire.com/file/o6ceodngk93mh72/aim.rar/file>
> 
> I have uploaded the initialize file to: 
> https://www.mediafire.com/file/3tb9hg2i09fn5ez/batio3.tar/file 
> <https://www.mediafire.com/file/3tb9hg2i09fn5ez/batio3.tar/file>
> 
> The calculation has been performed by WIIEN2k_21.1. For “x aim” both 
> 21.1 and 18.2 were used.
> 
>> I ran them with both 21.1  and a pre-release version of 22.1 and the results are almost the same.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>>If you look at your *.outputaim,  it is clear that something is badly
> wrong.
> 
> That’s right.
> 
>>Please check that you have the values  in your case.inaim correct. Maybe there is something wrong with the 
> clmsum/*.in* files etc that you used?
> 
> I cannot find the source of the error. Would you please guide me?
> 
> Leila Mollabashi
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 11:53 PM Laurence Marks <laurence.marks at gmail.com 
> <mailto:laurence.marks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I cannot reproduce your results. I ran them with both 21.1 and a
>     pre-release version of 22.1 and the results are almost the same. They
>     are
> 
>     Rhombohedral Cell
>     ../Ba.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   1  Z= 56.0  CHARGE:  54.48948  Z
>     - Charge:   1.51052
>     ../O.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   3  Z=  8.0  CHARGE:   9.24294  Z -
>     Charge:  -1.24294
>     ../Ti.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   2  Z= 22.0  CHARGE:  19.77893  Z
>     - Charge:   2.22107
> 
>     Your cubic cell
>     Ba.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   1  Z= 56.0  CHARGE:  54.47591  Z -
>     Charge:   1.52409
>     O.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   3  Z=  8.0  CHARGE:   9.25386  Z -
>     Charge:  -1.25386
>     Ti.aim::RHOTOT     for IND-ATOM   2  Z= 22.0  CHARGE:  19.74700  Z -
>     Charge:   2.25300
> 
>     If you look at your *.outputaim, it is clear that something is badly
>     wrong. Look at the end and you will see that there are NaN values, and
>     earlier some warnings about the radii. Please check that you have the
>     values in your case.inaim correct. Maybe there is something wrong with
>     the clmsum/*.in* files etc that you used?
> 
>     On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:25 PM leila mollabashi
>     <le.mollabashi at gmail.com <mailto:le.mollabashi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > Dear Wien2k developers and users,
>      >
>      > I would like to calculate Bader charges in BaTiO3. The input and
>     output files are uploaded to
>     https://www.mediafire.com/file/o6ceodngk93mh72/aim.rar/file
>     <https://www.mediafire.com/file/o6ceodngk93mh72/aim.rar/file> for
>     your kind consideration.
>      >
>      > I have run a PBE-GGA calculation using 1000 k-points, RMTKmax =7,
>     Gmax = 12 (Bohr)-1 employing WIIEN2k_21.1 and then executed “x aim”
>     by the third part of case.inaim from SRC_templates. The calculated
>     charges are:
>      >
>      > Ba: 2.91, Ti: 2.68, O: 0.299
>      >
>      > The results cannot satisfy the stoichiometry of the compound
>     because of the positive charge wrongly calculated for O, i.e.,
>     2.91+2.68+3*0.299=6.487 != 0
>      >
>      > Then, to improve the results, I increased the LM in the original
>     calculation with no optimistic effect.
>      >
>      > Accidently, I found that the Bader charges of BaTiO3 can be
>     perfectly improved using “x aim” of WIIEN2k_18.2 as follows:
>      >
>      > Ba: 1.52, Ti: 2.23, O: -1.25
>      >
>      > The above results, as calculated by the older version 18.2, not
>     only give a negative value for the charge of oxygen but also
>     perfectly lead to zero taking the stoichiometry of the compound into
>     account, i.e., 1.52+2.23+3*(-1.25) = 0.
>      >
>      > For sure, I checked the 14 and 16.1 versions of the WIEN2k code
>     and found correct results the same as WIIEN2k_18.2. This shows that
>     most likely something is different in the older versions
>     WIIEN2k_18.2, WIIEN2k_16.1, and WIIEN2k_14 compared to the latest
>     version WIIEN2k_21.1?
>      >
>      > I also checked LaCrO3, and found the same dissonancy. The Bader
>     charges were calculated for LaCrO3 to be La: 2.08, Cr: 1.65, O: 
>     -1.24  in Ref. [Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 4933]. These results
>     also correctly lead to zero approximately: 2.08+1.65+3*(-1.24) ~ 0.01.
>      >
>      > Would you, please, have a look at this issue and let us know the
>     source of the above discrepancy?
>      >
>      > Sincerely yours,
>      >
>      > Leila Mollabashi
>      >
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