[Wien] Continuing: Non convergence of LiNiO2

shamik chakrabarti shamik15041981 at gmail.com
Wed May 8 19:19:29 CEST 2024


Dear Sir,

           Thank you so much. The convergence is coming. I will wait.

with regards,

On Wed, 8 May 2024 at 22:44, Peter Blaha <peter.blaha at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> 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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Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
Research Fellow
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Bihta-801103
Patna
Bihar, India
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