[Wien] Continuing: Non convergence of LiNiO2

Peter Blaha peter.blaha at tuwien.ac.at
Wed May 8 19:14:20 CEST 2024


Your struct file allows only for FM structure. An AFM cell must be enlarged.
Anyway, using your struct file with U=0.3 Ry I get a gap of 0.5 eV. 
However, when relaxing the O position, the gap more or less vanishes.

Convergence in the insulating state is ok (MMT=3.0), in the metallic 
cases it is a bit sloppy.
Keep going, it is not unusual that you need 80 or more cycles for a 
difficult magnetic structure.
But finally, you should consider the AFM structure.

Am 08.05.2024 um 18:54 schrieb shamik chakrabarti:
> Dear Sir,
> 
>           I am sending a PRB paper in which magnetic orderings of LiNiO2 
> has been given. The link of the paper is  DOI: 
> 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.144412.   It is A-type antiferromagnet.
> Also, at cycle no.68, it first show the appearance of 0.005 for CC in LiNiO2
> 
> with regards,
> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 21:59, Laurence Marks <laurence.marks at gmail.com 
> <mailto:laurence.marks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Smaller mixing factor is GIGO.
> 
>     LiNiO2 is a well studied material. Did you research the magnetic
>     ordering found by others?
> 
>     ___
>     Professor Laurence Marks (Laurie)
>     Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
>     www.numis.northwestern.edu <http://www.numis.northwestern.edu>
>     "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what
>     nobody else has thought" Albert Szent-Györgyi
> 
>     On Wed, May 8, 2024, 23:58 shamik chakrabarti
>     <shamik15041981 at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>                 <mailto: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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