[CP2K:5607] Re: Bulk Nickel (and possibly other newbie questions)

[Alex]

Thanks for the reply, but please read my entire post above. 

On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:22:00 PM UTC-6, Sharma SRK Chaitanya 
Yamijala wrote:
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> Hi,
> It seems you have given MULTIPLICITY = 2, in your input. Try with '1'.
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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Alex <ned... at gmail.com <javascript:>> 
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>> Okay, this is a bit weird. Just for testing, I decided to get the total 
>> self-energy for Ni, just one atom in vacuum following Ralph's suggestions.
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>> ***
>> &KIND Ni
>>       ELEMENT   Ni
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q18
>>     &END KIND
>>     &CELL
>>       A     10.00000    0.000000    0.000000
>>       B     0.000000    10.00000    0.000000
>>       C     0.000000    0.000000    10.00000
>>     &END CELL
>>     &COORD
>>       Ni    0.000000000    0.000000000    0.000000000
>>     &END COORD
>>   &END SUBSYS
>>   &DFT
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME  BASIS_SET2
>>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  GTH_POTENTIALS2
>>     UKS                  TRUE
>>     MULTIPLICITY         2
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>> ***
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>> The message I get with above is "try a different multiplicity." 
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>> The manual states:
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>> "MULTIPLICITY {Integer}
>> Two times the total spin plus one. Specify 3 for a triplet, 4 for a 
>> quartet, and so on. Default is 1 (singlet) for an even number and 2 
>> (doublet) for an odd number of electrons.  [Edit]
>> This optional keyword cannot be repeated and it expects precisely one 
>> integer."
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>> Here, we have 28 electrons, but setting multiplicity to 1 is not even an 
>> option, the simulation crashes. Any suggestions?
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