Hybrid functional calculation results show large difference with VASP

Xiaoming Wang wxia... at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 15:31:50 UTC 2017


Hi Marcella,

Thanks for your reply. I have checked that parameter. Actually, eps_schwarz 
of 1.0e-10 give quite a small improvement of the band gap, ~0.01 eV. Any 
other suggestions?

Best,
Xiaoming 

On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 11:18:58 AM UTC-4, Marcella Iannuzzi wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> Your eps_schwarz at 1.0e-6 is far too large.
> The default is 1.0e-10. 
>
> Regards
> Marcella
>
> On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 5:07:21 PM UTC+2, Xiaoming Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I conducted PBE0 and HSE calculations on a cube of ~10*10*10 
>> (perovskite). For comparison, I also did the calculations using VASP (gamma 
>> only). However, to my surprise, the band gap obtained by cp2k is about 0.5 
>> eV (HSE)  and 0.8 eV(PBE0) smaller than by vasp. The vasp results agree 
>> well with literature. For the cp2k calculations, I have checked the 
>> convergence of the cutoffs and auxiliary basis sets. Since for my 
>> structure, the only available basis sets is DZVP within BASIS_MOLOPT, thus 
>> I could not find a way to increase the primary basis size. But I checked 
>> the PBE results with DZVP compared with those of VASP. The difference of 
>> the band gap is very small, say only 0.02 eV. So I think the DZVP basis set 
>> is OK for my system. The inputs of my calculations are as follows. Could 
>> anyone give me some suggestions?
>>
>> HSE input:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> &GLOBAL
>>  PROJECT_NAME CsInAgCl
>>  RUN_TYPE ENERGY
>>  PRINT_LEVEL LOW
>> &END GLOBAL
>>
>> &FORCE_EVAL
>>  METHOD QS
>>   &DFT
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_MOLOPT
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_ADMM
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_ADMM_MOLOPT
>>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME GTH_POTENTIALS
>>     WFN_RESTART_FILE_NAME -PBE.wfn
>>     &QS
>>      EPS_PGF_ORB 1.0e-6
>>     &END
>>     &MGRID
>>       CUTOFF 250
>>       REL_CUTOFF 60
>>     &END MGRID
>>     &XC
>>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>        &PBE
>>         SCALE_X 0.0
>>         SCALE_C 1.0
>>        &END PBE
>>        &XWPBE
>>         SCALE_X -0.25
>>         SCALE_X0 1.0
>>         OMEGA 0.11
>>        &END XWPBE
>>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>       &HF
>>        FRACTION 0.25
>>        &SCREENING
>>         EPS_SCHWARZ 1.0e-6
>>        &END SCREENING
>>        &INTERACTION_POTENTIAL
>>         POTENTIAL_TYPE SHORTRANGE
>>         OMEGA 0.11
>>        &END INTERACTION_POTENTIAL
>>        &MEMORY
>>         MAX_MEMORY 2400
>>         EPS_STORAGE_SCALING 0.1
>>        &END MEMORY
>>       &END HF
>>     &END XC
>>     &SCF
>>      #ADDED_MOS 2
>>       MAX_SCF 100
>>       EPS_SCF 1.0e-6
>>       CHOLESKY INVERSE
>>       SCF_GUESS RESTART
>>       &OT
>>        PRECONDITIONER FULL_ALL
>>        ENERGY_GAP 0.01
>>       &END OT
>>     &END SCF
>>     &AUXILIARY_DENSITY_MATRIX_METHOD
>>      METHOD BASIS_PROJECTION
>>      ADMM_PURIFICATION_METHOD MO_DIAG
>>     &END AUXILIARY_DENSITY_MATRIX_METHOD
>>     &PRINT
>>      &MO_CUBES
>>       WRITE_CUBE F
>>       NHOMO 1
>>       NLUMO 1
>>      &END MO_CUBES
>>     &END PRINT
>>   &END DFT
>>   &SUBSYS
>>     &CELL
>>       ABC [angstrom] 10.5345 10.5345 10.5345
>>       ALPHA_BETA_GAMMA [deg] 90 90 90
>>       PERIODIC XYZ
>>       SYMMETRY CUBIC
>>     &END CELL
>>     &COORD
>>      ....[I omitted the coors here ]
>>       SCALED T
>>     &END COORD
>>     &KIND Cs
>>       ELEMENT Cs
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q9
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND In
>>       ELEMENT In
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q13
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND Ag
>>       ELEMENT Ag
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q11
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND Cl
>>       ELEMENT Cl
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT3
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q7
>>     &END KIND
>>   &END SUBSYS
>> &END FORCE_EVAL
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> PBE0 input
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> &GLOBAL
>>  PROJECT_NAME CsInAgCl
>>  RUN_TYPE ENERGY
>>  PRINT_LEVEL LOW
>> &END GLOBAL
>> &FORCE_EVAL
>>  METHOD QS
>>   &DFT
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_MOLOPT
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_ADMM
>>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_ADMM_MOLOPT
>>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME GTH_POTENTIALS
>>     WFN_RESTART_FILE_NAMEPBE.wfn
>>     &QS
>>      EPS_PGF_ORB 1.0e-6
>>     &END
>>     &MGRID
>>       CUTOFF 250
>>       REL_CUTOFF 60
>>     &END MGRID
>>     &XC
>>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>        &PBE
>>         SCALE_X 0.75
>>         SCALE_C 1.0
>>        &END PBE
>>        &PBE_HOLE_T_C_LR
>>         CUTOFF_RADIUS 5.25
>>         SCALE_X 0.25
>>        &END PBE_HOLE_T_C_LR
>>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>>       &HF
>>        FRACTION 0.25
>>        &SCREENING
>>         EPS_SCHWARZ 1.0e-6
>>        &END SCREENING
>>        &INTERACTION_POTENTIAL
>>         POTENTIAL_TYPE TRUNCATED
>>         CUTOFF_RADIUS 5.25
>>         T_C_G_DATA ./t_c_g.dat
>>        &END INTERACTION_POTENTIAL
>>        &MEMORY
>>         MAX_MEMORY 2400
>>         EPS_STORAGE_SCALING 0.1
>>        &END MEMORY
>>       &END HF
>>     &END XC
>>     &SCF
>>       MAX_SCF 100
>>       EPS_SCF 1.0e-6
>>       CHOLESKY INVERSE
>>       SCF_GUESS RESTART
>>       &OT
>>        PRECONDITIONER FULL_ALL
>>        ENERGY_GAP 0.01
>>       &END OT
>>     &END SCF
>>     &AUXILIARY_DENSITY_MATRIX_METHOD
>>      METHOD BASIS_PROJECTION
>>      ADMM_PURIFICATION_METHOD MO_DIAG
>>     &END AUXILIARY_DENSITY_MATRIX_METHOD
>>     &PRINT
>>      &MO_CUBES
>>       WRITE_CUBE F
>>       NHOMO 1
>>       NLUMO 1
>>      &END MO_CUBES
>>     &END PRINT
>>   &END DFT
>>   &SUBSYS
>>     &CELL
>>       ABC [angstrom] 10.5345 10.5345 10.5345
>>       ALPHA_BETA_GAMMA [deg] 90 90 90
>>       PERIODIC XYZ
>>       SYMMETRY CUBIC
>>     &END CELL
>>     &COORD
>>        .......
>>       SCALED T
>>     &END COORD
>>     &KIND Cs
>>       ELEMENT Cs
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q9
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND In
>>       ELEMENT In
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q13
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND Ag
>>       ELEMENT Ag
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT11
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q11
>>     &END KIND
>>     &KIND Cl
>>       ELEMENT Cl
>>       BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>>       AUX_FIT_BASIS_SET FIT3
>>       POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q7
>>     &END KIND
>>   &END SUBSYS
>> &END FORCE_EVAL
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Xiaoming Wang
>>
>>
>>   
>>
>
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