<div dir="ltr">Thank you very much!<div><br></div><div>With Best Regards,</div><div>Natalia<br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 2:39 PM Peter Blaha <<a href="mailto:peter.blaha@tuwien.ac.at">peter.blaha@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">
  
    
  
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    <p>As was mentioned before, you can't use the XC_HYB_GGA_XC_*
      switches.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>In addition: The manual says for   NBAND:  use "at least" NE+1.
      Then it should run through.<br>
    </p>
    <p>But this does not mean that such a calculation is good. You
      should use more bands for the second variation HF step, depending
      on your case.</p>
    <p>You have above EF  5 empty Ti-d bands and a Ba-s band. So the
      minimum for NBAND is NE+6, larger values are better.<br>
    </p>
    <div>Am 08.07.2023 um 09:06 schrieb Natalia
      Andreeva:<br>
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        <div>Dear Professor Blaha,</div>
        <div><br>
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        <div>I use wien21.<br>
          I calculate the BaTiO3 structure, atom 1 is Ba, RMT(Ba) =
          2.44; RMT(Ti) = 1.72; RMT(O) = 1.55.<br>
          First I run the SCF calculation on WC, it converges
          successfully.<br>
          Results of scf calculation for WC potential:<br>
          Insulator, EF-inconsistency corrected<br>
          :GAP (global)   :  0.144257 Ry =     1.963 eV (accurate value
          if proper k-mesh)<br>
                   Bandranges (emin - emax) and occupancy:<br>
          :BAN00010:  10   -0.230168   -0.162160  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00011:  11   -0.225681   -0.146894  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00012:  12    0.215762    0.365039  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00013:  13    0.248128    0.370283  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00014:  14    0.266208    0.370564  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00015:  15    0.318315    0.438250  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00016:  16    0.347963    0.440022  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00017:  17    0.363037    0.457065  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00018:  18    0.427422    0.529925  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00019:  19    0.461775    0.531282  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00020:  20    0.472709    0.539353  2.00000000<br>
          :BAN00021:  21    0.683610    0.849512  0.00000000<br>
          :BAN00022:  22    0.701665    0.850244  0.00000000<br>
          :BAN00023:  23    0.702723    0.850771  0.00000000<br>
          :BAN00024:  24    0.852848    1.043061  0.00000000<br>
          :BAN00025:  25    0.862116    1.102879  0.00000000<br>
                  Energy to separate low and high energystates:  
           0.16576<br>
          :NOE  : NUMBER OF ELECTRONS          =   40.000<br>
          :FER  : F E R M I - ENERGY(TETRAH.M.)=   0.5393529588<br>
          :GMA  : POTENTIAL AND CHARGE CUT-OFF  12.00 Ry**.5<br>
          :POS001: ATOM   -1 X,Y,Z = 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000  MULT= 1
           ZZ= 56.000  Ba<br>
          lmax 10<br>
          <br>
          This is a hybrid calculation, I use XC_HYB_GGA_XC_B1WC in
          case.in0, after which I run init_hf_lapw, select nband = 21
          (since after calculating on WC nb_occ = 20). When I delete a
          line for l = 1 from in1, an error still appears.</div>
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        <div>Thank you in advance,</div>
        <div>With Best Regard,</div>
        <div>Natalia Andreeva<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 6:15 PM
          Peter Blaha <<a href="mailto:peter.blaha@tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">peter.blaha@tuwien.ac.at</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <p>I need some more information:</p>
            <p>Are you using wien23 or an earlier version ?</p>
            <p>What is your system (struct file), in particular what is
              atom 1; its RMT, ...</p>
            <p>Such a large EF is rather unusual (except for 5f systems)
              and for sure the resulting E-parameters as you showed
              below must lead to ghostbands. Usually it is good to
              remove the LO for this atom and l-value, at least
              temporarily, but you must check at what energy would you
              expect the semicore state and you must not miss it, if it
              is a real low energy state. ....<br>
            </p>
            <p>Is this actually a hybrid calculation ? Does it happen in
              the first iteration ? Did you start a hybrid calc. from a
              converged PBE calculation ? ....</p>
            <p><br>
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            <div>Am 07.07.2023 um 13:48 schrieb Natalia Andreeva:<br>
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                <div>Dear Professor Blaha,</div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>I tried to run calculations for hybrid
                  functionality from libxc, but I get a GHOST BANDS
                  error. The case.scf2 file states that for atom 1 with
                  l=1, the energy parameters need to be changed.<br>
                  <br>
                  :WARN : QTL-B value eq. 32.08 in Band of energy
                  1.68736 ATOM= 1 L= 1<br>
                  :WARN : You should change the E-parameter for this
                  atom and L-value in case.in1 (or try the -in1new
                  switch)<br>
                  The Fermi level in scf2 is<br>
                  :FER : F E R M I - ENERGY(TETRAH.M.)= 1.8321578843<br>
                  I tried setting it to 1.632 instead of the default 0.3
                  in case.in1, but that didn't fix it.<br>
                  Then I tried to remove the values that have similar
                  energy values in case.scf1 from the case.in1 file
                  (reducing the number of n choices), but this did not
                  lead to a positive result.<br>
                  :E1_0001: E( 1)= 0.7000<br>
                                APW+lo<br>
                  :E1_0001: E( 1)= 0.4094 E(BOTTOM)= 0.409 E(TOP)=
                  -200.000 3 -1 222<br>
                                LOCAL ORBITAL<br>
                  When trying to change the energy parameters and set
                  the in1new flag, an nband error appeared.<br>
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                <div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">Thank you in
                    advance, </span><br>
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                  <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Best Regards,<br>
                    Natalia Andreeva.<br>
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