<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000">As Peter said, your structure is certainly wrong. There is a method already in Wien2k to help avoid this type of problem for oxides. After running "x nn" or "setrmt" you do "grep Bond *.outputnn". This will give you the bond valence sums (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_valence_method">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_valence_method</a>), which should be close to the nominal valence, within 10-20%. When I look at your structure the values for the Na & Yb are about right, but the O is really wrong (6.77 when it should be 1.8-2.2).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000">If you want to go further you should read Pauling's rules (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauling%27s_rules">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauling%27s_rules</a>). While these may be old, they remain valid. In 99.9% of cases if an oxide (and many others) violate Pauling's rules and the bond valences are odd they are high energy. This is known for the bulk, and also works for surfaces (DOI: 10.1016/j.surfrep.2018.08.001) and I expect other defects.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#000000">Once you have a reasonable structure the RMT for the Yb will be much larger, the bond valences more reasonable and the problem in lapw1 will probably go away.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 2:41 AM Peter Blaha <<a href="mailto:pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at">pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">No, your struct file is certainly not correct.<br>
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From the header I can see you want to do NaYbO2<br>
<br>
So look into your struct file:<br>
<br>
I see 4 atoms, but a stoichiometry of Na Yb4 O2 ???<br>
<br>
Of course, also your RMTs are completely unphysical and the atoms are <br>
much too close.<br>
<br>
If one removes the 3rd atom (Y2 with 3 equ. atoms), the structure might <br>
be ok ? However, with one Y atom/cell, you cannot make a AFM <br>
structure, only a FM one. You need to know how the AFM structure is and <br>
then make a corresponding supercell.<br>
<br></blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Professor Laurence Marks<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering<br>Northwestern University<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu/" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a><div>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" Albert <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Szent-</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Györgyi</span></div></div></div></div>