[CP2K:7842] Re: Printing Core Charges for Bader analysis

Satish Kumar satis... at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 13:34:16 UTC 2016


Thank you for the idea. Will dig deeper into this.
On Jun 11, 2016 8:36 AM, "Matt W" <MattWa... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've never tried this.  I think you would have to run a GAPW calculation
> (all electron) to get core electrons explicitly into the calculation. The
> you would have to use your second type of print statement with
> total_density added.
>
> Pseudopotential calculations don't have a model of the frozen core density
> like PAWs do, so you can't get this from a GPW calculation easily (You
> could maybe hack it somehow by changing the sign of the nuclear charge or
> something in a TOTAL_DENSITY_CUBE run).
>
> Matt
>
> On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 11:21:35 PM UTC+1, Satish Kumar wrote:
>>
>> Hello CP2K users
>>
>> I was trying to obtain "proper?" Bader charges (Using Henkelman's
>> program) for a CO2 molecule. Right now, I am getting the charge associated
>> with C atom to be zero. In VASP, we can add the LAECHG=TRUE tag that will
>> print the core charges too (
>> http://theory.cm.utexas.edu/henkelman/code/bader/). Doing so in VASP
>> gives a reasonable (around 2 electrons) charge associated with C atom.
>> After looking up the CP2K Google group I tried a couple of other options in
>> an attempt to get the total (valence + core) charge density. I tried the
>> following print sections:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>>
>> &PRINT
>>
>>     &E_DENSITY_CUBE
>>
>>       STRIDE 1
>>
>>     &END E_DENSITY_CUBE
>>
>> &END PRINT
>>
>> 2)
>>   &PRINT
>>    &E_DENSITY_CUBE
>>       STRIDE 1
>>       TOTAL_DENSITY .TRUE.
>>     &END E_DENSITY_CUBE
>>   &END PRINT
>>
>> 3) This one gave wrong results I think (number of electrons estimated
>> from Bader was 0).
>>   &PRINT
>>     &TOT_DENSITY_CUBE
>>       STRIDE 1
>>     &END TOT_DENSITY_CUBE
>>   &END PRINT
>> Input file:
>>
>> &FORCE_EVAL
>>
>>   METHOD Quickstep
>>
>>   &DFT
>>
>>     UKS
>>
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME /home/siyemperumal/GTH_BASIS_SETS_5-12-10
>>
>>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME /home/siyemperumal/GTH_POTENTIALS_5-12-10
>>
>>     WFN_RESTART_FILE_NAME co2-RESTART.wfn
>>
>>     &MGRID
>>
>>       CUTOFF 1600
>>
>>     &END MGRID
>>
>>     &QS
>>
>>       WF_INTERPOLATION ASPC
>>
>>       EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3
>>
>>     &END QS
>>
>>     &SCF
>>
>>      EPS_SCF 1.E-6
>>
>>      SCF_GUESS RESTART
>>
>>      MAX_SCF 500
>>
>>      &OT T
>>
>>        PRECONDITIONER FULL_SINGLE_INVERSE
>>
>>        MINIMIZER DIIS
>>
>>        LINESEARCH 3PNT
>>
>>      &END OT
>>
>>     &END SCF
>>
>>     &XC
>>
>>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>>
>>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>
>>       &VDW_POTENTIAL
>>
>>          DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL PAIR_POTENTIAL
>>
>>          &PAIR_POTENTIAL
>>
>>             TYPE DFTD3(BJ)
>>
>>             PARAMETER_FILE_NAME
>> /home/siyemperumal/Research/cp2k/package/cp2k/data/dftd3.dat
>>
>>             REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>>
>>     &PRINT_DFTD MEDIUM
>>
>>     &END PRINT_DFTD
>>
>>          &END PAIR_POTENTIAL
>>
>>       &END VDW_POTENTIAL
>>
>>     &END XC
>>
>>   &PRINT
>>
>> #Tried the above three combinations
>>
>>   &END PRINT
>>
>>   &END DFT
>>
>>   &SUBSYS
>>
>>     &CELL
>>
>>       ABC 12.00 13.00 14.00
>>
>>     &END CELL
>>
>>     &TOPOLOGY
>>
>>     &END TOPOLOGY
>>
>>     &COORD
>>
>> C         0.0000153980        0.0000010425        0.0006891492
>>
>> O         1.1762907217        0.0000004039        0.0006107401
>>
>> O        -1.1763057650       -0.0000013603        0.0006092107
>>
>>     &END COORD
>>
>>     &KIND O
>>
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-GTH
>>
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6
>>
>>     &END KIND
>>
>>     &KIND C
>>
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-GTH
>>
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q4
>>
>>     &END KIND
>>
>>   &END SUBSYS
>>
>> &END FORCE_EVAL
>>
>> &GLOBAL
>>
>>   PROJECT co2
>>
>>   RUN_TYPE ENERGY
>>
>>   #RUN_TYPE GEO_OPT
>>
>>   PRINT_LEVEL LOW
>>
>> &END GLOBAL
>>
>>  &MOTION
>>
>>   &GEO_OPT
>>
>>     MAX_ITER 200
>>
>>     MAX_FORCE 0.0009725  #0.05 eV/A
>>
>>     OPTIMIZER BFGS
>>
>>   &END GEO_OPT
>>
>>  &END MOTION
>>
>>
>> Related Output that is printed:
>>
>>
>>   Electronic density on regular grids:        -15.9999999999
>> 0.0000000001
>>
>>   Core density on regular grids:               15.9999999994
>> -0.0000000006
>>
>>   Total charge density on r-space grids:       -0.0000000005
>>
>>   Total charge density g-space grids:          -0.0000000005
>>
>>
>> Thank you for any ideas.
>>
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