<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the kind instruction. I already fixed the structure problem, and it seems fine right now after initialization. But when I tried to run the SCF, I encountered another problem with error file like this:<div>
<br></div><div><div>Error in LAPW1</div><div> &#39;INILPW&#39; - can&#39;t open unit:  18                                               </div><div> &#39;INILPW&#39; -        filename: LiCoO2.vspup                                      </div>
<div> &#39;INILPW&#39; -          status: old          form: formatted                      </div><div> &#39;LAPW1&#39; - INILPW aborted unsuccessfully.</div></div><div><br></div><div style>I also attached my structure file here:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><div>LiCoO2                                                                         </div><div>R   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  3166_R-3m                                         </div><div>MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=ang                                                     </div>
<div>  5.310133  5.310133 26.550663 90.000000 90.000000120.000000                   </div><div>ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000</div><div>          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4</div><div>Li         NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.7600   Z:  3.0                   </div>
<div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div><div>                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div><div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div><div>ATOM  -2: X=0.50000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.50000000</div>
<div>          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4</div><div>Co         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.9400   Z: 27.0                   </div><div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div><div>                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div>
<div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div><div>ATOM  -3: X=0.24000000 Y=0.24000000 Z=0.24000000</div><div>          MULT= 2          ISPLIT= 4</div><div>      -3: X=0.76000000 Y=0.76000000 Z=0.76000000</div>
<div>O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.6700   Z:  8.0                   </div><div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div><div>                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div><div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Can any one give me any hint for that error?</div><div style><br></div><div style>Thanks a lot and Best regards,</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Gavin Abo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gsabo@crimson.ua.edu" target="_blank">gsabo@crimson.ua.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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    <div>Looks to me that your atomic positions
      are in the hexagonal setting, when they need to be in the
      rhombohedral setting
      [<a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg05554.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/wien%40zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg05554.html</a>]
      and your hexagonal lattice constants seem fine.<div><div class="h5"><br>
      <br>
      On 8/24/2014 11:01 AM, Minghao Zhang wrote:<br>
    </div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">Hi all,
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div><b>I encountered a problem while I run the initialization
            process for LiCoO2 structure through w2web.</b></div>
        <div><b><br>
          </b></div>
        <div><b>Here is my structure file:</b></div>
        <div>
          <br>
        </div>
        <div>
          <div>LiCoO2                                                  
                                  </div>
          <div>R   LATTICE,NONEQUIV.ATOMS:  3166_R-3m                  
                                  </div>
          <div>MODE OF CALC=RELA unit=ang                              
                                  </div>
          <div>  5.310133  5.310133 26.550663 90.000000
            90.000000120.000000                   </div>
          <div>ATOM  -1: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>          MULT= 1          ISPLIT= 4</div>
          <div>Li         NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    1.0100   Z:
             3.0                   </div>
          <div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div>
          <div>ATOM  -2: X=0.00000001 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.50000000</div>
          <div>          MULT= 3          ISPLIT= 4</div>
          <div>      -2: X=0.00000000 Y=0.50000000 Z=0.00000001</div>
          <div>      -2: X=0.50000000 Y=0.00000001 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>Co         NPT=  781  R0=0.00005000 RMT=    1.3000   Z:
            27.0                   </div>
          <div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>                     0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div>
          <div>ATOM  -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.24000000</div>
          <div>          MULT= 6          ISPLIT= 8</div>
          <div>      -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.76000000</div>
          <div>      -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.24000000 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>      -3: X=0.00000000 Y=0.76000000 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>      -3: X=0.24000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>      -3: X=0.76000000 Y=0.00000000 Z=0.00000000</div>
          <div>O          NPT=  781  R0=0.00010000 RMT=    0.6300   Z:
             8.0                   </div>
          <div>LOCAL ROT MATRIX:    0.0000000 1.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>                     0.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000</div>
          <div>                     1.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000</div>
          <div>  12      NUMBER OF SYMMETRY OPERATIONS</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       1</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       2</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       3</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       4</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       5</div>
          <div> 0 0-1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0-1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>-1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       6</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       7</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       8</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>       9</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>      10</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div>      11</div>
          <div> 1 0 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 1 0 0.00000000</div>
          <div> 0 0 1 0.00000000</div>
          <div>      12</div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div><b>I set the RMT value automatically with 0%
              reduce. Everything is fine until I did the lstart
              initialization. If I set a higher cutoff energy between
              -6Ry~-10Ry, it always warn me that some of the atom core
              level leakage like following:</b></div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"> SELECT XCPOT:
  recommended: 13: PBE-GGA (Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96)
                5: LSDA
               11: WC-GGA (Wu-Cohen 2006)
               19: PBEsol-GGA (Perdew etal. 2008)
  SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
  recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
  ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
  (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state

:WARNING:     0.106  Co   CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
:WARNING:     touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core density superposition
:WARNING:     Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation energy 
:WARNING:     ORBITAL:  3S     -7.621    -7.378

:WARNING:     0.011  O    CORE electrons leak out of MT-sphere !!!!
:WARNING:     touch .lcore and run scf-cycle with core density superposition
:WARNING:     Or: rerun lstart with lower E-core separation energy 
LSTART ENDS
0.212u 0.056s 0:00.31 83.8%        0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w</pre>
          </div>
          <div><b>But if I further lower down the cutoff
              energy, like -11 or -10.5 it will give the error like
              following:</b></div>
          <div><br>
          </div>
          <div>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"> SELECT XCPOT:
  recommended: 13: PBE-GGA (Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof 96)
                5: LSDA
               11: WC-GGA (Wu-Cohen 2006)
               19: PBEsol-GGA (Perdew etal. 2008)
  SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
  recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
  ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
  (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
  SELECT ENERGY to separate core and valence states:
  recommended: -6.0 Ry (check how much core charge leaks out of MT-sphere)
  ALTERNATIVELY: specify charge localization
  (between 0.97 and 1.0) to select core state
forrtl: severe (24): end-of-file during read, unit -4, file stdin
Image              PC                Routine            Line        Source             
lstart             00000000004AD8FD  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             00000000004AC405  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             000000000045B510  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             0000000000426E6F  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             00000000004266A2  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             000000000043FB9B  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             000000000043D6EA  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             000000000040F6B2  MAIN__                     67  lstart.f
lstart             000000000040316C  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
libc.so.6          0000003200A1D9C4  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
lstart             0000000000403079  Unknown               Unknown  Unknown
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.00 0.0%        0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
error: command   /home1/02212/miz016/src/WIENROOT/lstart lstart.def   failed
</pre>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"></pre>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"><b>Can any one give a hint to deal with this kind of problem?</b></pre>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)"></pre>
            <pre style="font-family:Courier,fixed;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;background-color:rgb(240,240,240)">Thanks in advance and Best regards,</pre>
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