[Wien] Continuing: Non convergence of LiNiO2

Laurence Marks laurence.marks at gmail.com
Wed May 8 18:28:54 CEST 2024


Smaller mixing factor is GIGO.

LiNiO2 is a well studied material. Did you research the magnetic ordering
found by others?

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Professor Laurence Marks (Laurie)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody
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On Wed, May 8, 2024, 23:58 shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With Ni we are getting a metal (actually 0.4 eV band gap should be
> achieved) while using Mn we are getting a semiconductor. I have used
> smaller mixing parameter ~ 0.08 and also TEMP with 0.0018 for the Ni based
> case. After 54 iterations it is not conserved yet
>
> ec cc fc and str_conv 1 0 1 1
> :STRESS convergence:  0 0.0 0 YY
> :CHARGE convergence:  0 0.001 .0311012
> :ENERGY convergence:  0 0.0001 .0003093050000000
> >   mixer  -orb 	(21:26:12) 3.025u 0.999s 0:01.62 247.5%	0+0k 0+30184io 0pf+0w
> >   lcore -dn    	(21:26:12) 0.157u 0.016s 0:00.17 94.1%	0+0k 0+2064io 0pf+0w
> >   lcore -up    	(21:26:12) 0.154u 0.020s 0:00.17 100.0%	0+0k 0+2064io 0pf+0w
> >   lapw2 -dn      -c  -orb  	(21:26:00) 24.712u 16.849s 0:11.78 352.7%	0+0k 0+6464io 1pf+0w
> >   lapw2 -up      -c  -orb  	(21:25:49) 21.971u 15.087s 0:10.12 366.1%	0+0k 0+6464io 1pf+0w
> >   lapw1  -dn   -orb  -c  	(21:24:51) 194.135u 53.345s 0:58.32 424.3%	0+0k 0+123592io 2pf+0w
> >   lapw1  -up   -orb  -c  	(21:23:43) 220.489u 61.950s 1:07.78 416.6%	0+0k 0+123552io 4pf+0w
> >   orb -dn  	(21:23:43) 0.013u 0.000s 0:00.01 100.0%	0+0k 0+32io 0pf+0w
> >   orb -up  	(21:23:43) 0.010u 0.003s 0:00.01 100.0%	0+0k 0+40io 0pf+0w
> >   lapw0 -nlvdw     	(21:23:37) 19.266u 0.368s 0:05.99 327.5%	0+0k 0+10840io 0pf+0w
>
>     cycle 54 	(Wednesday 08 May 2024 09:23:37 PM IST) 	(347/46 to go)
>
> >   nlvdw  	(21:23:17) 65.388u 18.816s 0:19.62 429.1%	0+0k 0+31528io 0pf+0
>
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 21:20, shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wien2k users,
>>
>>                          With replacing Ni by Mn I can achieve
>> convergence by using an unoptimized struct file & considering only GGA+U.
>> Does it mean that Ni in LiNiO2 has some issues with convergence?
>>
>> i'm looking forward to listening from you.
>>
>> with regards,
>>
>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 17:25, shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> For creating the magnetic order i have modified case.inst as follows;
>>>
>>> Ni
>>> Ar 3
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3,-3,3.0  N
>>> 3,-3,1.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>> Ni
>>> Ar 3
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3,-3,1.0  N
>>> 3,-3,3.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>> Ni
>>> Ar 3
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3, 2,2.0  N
>>> 3,-3,1.0  N
>>> 3,-3,3.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>> 4,-1,1.0  N
>>>
>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 17:22, shamik chakrabarti <
>>> shamik15041981 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Wien2k users & Prof. Marks,
>>>>
>>>>    Following your advice, I have set up the magnetic order by creating
>>>> FM ordering in the intralplane Ni atoms while AFM ordering between
>>>> interplane Ni atoms. I have done the followings;
>>>> 1. 2x1x1 of R3m (166) LiNiO2 cell
>>>> 2. It produces 12 atom cell. After X sgroup code instructed to choose
>>>> settings P3m1 (156) & I have accepted it.
>>>> 3. I have verified by simulating the XRD of R3m cell & P3m1 cell, that
>>>> both are giving same XRD using Vesta
>>>> 4. I have used runsp_lapw -orb -nlvdw  -ec 0.0001 -cc 0.0001 to include
>>>> both GGA+U & nlvdw
>>>> 5 . For the last 10 iterations the DIS are
>>>>
>>>> --- DIS -----------
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.3638450 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.2170913
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.3803815 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.2210045
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.6461132 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.3107978
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.6338935 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.3051461
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.6429209 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.3107008
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.3898947 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.2278767
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.3139869 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.1967012
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.3727963 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.2165397
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.2745662 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.1856212
>>>> :DIS  :  CHARGE DISTANCE      (  0.2947020 for atom    4 spin 1)      0.1929777
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to your advice in this regard.
>>>>
>>>> with regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>>>> Research Fellow
>>>> Department of Physics
>>>> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>>>> Bihta-801103
>>>> Patna
>>>> Bihar, India
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>>> Research Fellow
>>> Department of Physics
>>> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>>> Bihta-801103
>>> Patna
>>> Bihar, India
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>> Research Fellow
>> Department of Physics
>> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>> Bihta-801103
>> Patna
>> Bihar, India
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
> Research Fellow
> Department of Physics
> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
> Bihta-801103
> Patna
> Bihar, India
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