[Wien] GAP is not found in case.scf

Laurence Marks laurence.marks at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 14:20:45 CEST 2024


Are you using TEMP(S)? The latest version may switch to that automatically
for a surface if it is a 2D mesh. Check by hand case.output2 (with up/dn as
needed).

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 07:16 Burhan Ahmed <burhan.ahmed at aus.ac.in> wrote:

> Thanks for your response. I am doing a slab calculation having 5 quintuple
> layers. My compound is a semiconductor. When I do the band structure
> calculation a clear gap is visible at the gamma point.
>
> If I do the same calculation for a metallic compound, the case.scf file
> shows band gap =0.0 eV (metallic). But in the Slab calculation this line
> (gap = xx eV) is missing.
> On Thu, 25 Jul, 2024, 5:31 pm Fecher, Gerhard, <fecher at uni-mainz.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Burhan,
>> what makes you sure that a gap exists ?
>> You do not tell much details, must be very secret.
>>
>> Ciao
>> Gerhard
>>
>> DEEP THOUGHT in D. Adams; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
>> "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you,
>> is that you have never actually known what the question is."
>>
>> ====================================
>> Dr. Gerhard H. Fecher
>> Institut of Physics
>> Johannes Gutenberg - University
>> 55099 Mainz
>> ________________________________________
>> Von: Wien [wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von
>> Burhan Ahmed [burhan.ahmed at aus.ac.in]
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Juli 2024 11:40
>> An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users
>> Betreff: [Wien] GAP is not found in case.scf
>>
>> Hello everyone , I have converged an scf run and when i try to check the
>> band band gap using grep :GAP command , it shows nothing. I also checked
>> both case.scf and case.scf2 file and found nothing about GAP though FER
>> energy is available.
>> Any suggestion for this.
>>
>> I am using wien2k_23.2 version in a HPC system. The calculation runs with
>> 8 parallel cores.
>>
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