[CP2K-user] [CP2K:12567] BS setting for spin polarized calculation

Jiapeng Liu sunta... at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 12:58:23 UTC 2019


Hi Matthias,

Exactly! There are 8 Fe atoms in the 2x2x2 supercell and the multiplicity 
is 33. I made a mistake, sorry about that. Thank you for pointing this out.

Regards,
Jiapeng

On Thursday, November 28, 2019 at 8:35:33 PM UTC+8, Matthias Krack wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>  
>
> Your 2x2x2 model system contains 8 Fe atoms with a high-spin 3d4 
> configuration which results in 8*4=32 unpaired alpha (spin-up) 3d electrons 
> and thus the proper multiplicity should be rather 8*4+1=33 than 65 isn’t it?
>
>  
>
> HTH
>
>  
>
> Matthias
>
>  
>
> *From:* c... at googlegroups.com <javascript:> <c... at googlegroups.com 
> <javascript:>> *On Behalf Of *Jiapeng Liu
> *Sent:* Donnerstag, 28. November 2019 09:10
> *To:* cp2k <c... at googlegroups.com <javascript:>>
> *Subject:* [CP2K:12567] BS setting for spin polarized calculation
>
>  
>
> Dear CP2K users,
>
>  
>
> I am performing a spin-polarized calculation of perovskite SrFeO3, which 
> has been optimized using VASP in material project. According to the results 
> shown here https://materialsproject.org/materials/mp-510624/, the 
> material shows a magnetic moment of 4.17 \muB. I would like to reproduce 
> the results using CP2K and the following are my input files for the 
> calculation. For the BS section, I would like to simulate the Sr2+, 
> Fe4+(3d4,4s0) high spin state, O2-. And the multiplicity is set as 2*total 
> spin+1=65 as the simulation supercell is 2x2x2.
>
>  
>
> However, I noticed that in the output file, the total electrons in spin 1 
> is 208 and 144 in spin 2 after Re-scaling. 
>
>  Spin 1
>
>  Re-scaling the density matrix to get the right number of electrons for 
> spin 1
>
>                   # Electrons              Trace(P)               Scaling 
> factor
>
>                           208               192.000                        
> 1.083
>
>  Spin 2
>
>  Re-scaling the density matrix to get the right number of electrons for 
> spin 2
>
>                   # Electrons              Trace(P)               Scaling 
> factor
>
>                           144               160.000                        
> 0.900
>
>  
>
> I am wondering why it is not 192 in spin 1 and 160 in spin 2. Am I correct 
> in setting the multiplicity state? I am quite confused about this part. And 
> my other question is how to accelerate the scf convergence, the results 
> shown in the output seem to oscillate near the final energy for quite many 
> steps. Can you help me with this, thank you for your help.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> &GLOBAL
>
>    PROJECT SrFeO3_bulk
>
>    RUN_TYPE ENERGY
>
>    PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
>
> &END GLOBAL
>
>  
>
> &FORCE_EVAL
>
>    METHOD Quickstep
>
>    &DFT
>
>       UKS    .TRUE.
>
>       CHARGE  0
>
>       MULTIPLICITY  65
>
> !      RELAX_MULTIPLICITY  1
>
>       BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME  BASIS_MOLOPT
>
>       POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  GTH_POTENTIALS
>
>       &POISSON
>
>          PERIODIC XYZ
>
>       &END POISSON
>
>       &QS
>
>          EXTRAPOLATION USE_GUESS ! required for K-Point sampling
>
>          METHOD GPW
>
>       &END QS
>
>       &MGRID
>
>          NGRIDS 4
>
>          CUTOFF 500
>
>          REL_CUTOFF 60
>
>       &END MGRID
>
>       &SCF
>
>          SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
>
>          EPS_SCF 1.0E-6
>
>          MAX_SCF 200
>
>          ADDED_MOS 40
>
>          &DIAGONALIZATION
>
>             ALGORITHM STANDARD
>
>             EPS_ADAPT 0.01
>
>          &END DIAGONALIZATION
>
>          &OUTER_SCF
>
>             EPS_SCF 1.0E-5
>
>             MAX_SCF 3
>
>          &END OUTER_SCF
>
>          &SMEAR  ON
>
>             METHOD FERMI_DIRAC
>
>             ELECTRONIC_TEMPERATURE [K] 500
>
>          &END SMEAR
>
>          &MIXING
>
>             METHOD BROYDEN_MIXING
>
>             ALPHA 0.4
>
>             BETA  1.5
>
>             NBROYDEN 8
>
>          &END MIXING
>
>       &END SCF
>
>       &XC
>
>          &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>
>          &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>
>       &END XC
>
>       &KPOINTS
>
>          SCHEME MONKHORST-PACK 4 4 4
>
> !         WAVEFUNCTIONS REAL
>
>          SYMMETRY .TRUE.
>
>          FULL_GRID .FALSE.
>
>          PARALLEL_GROUP_SIZE -1
>
>       &END KPOINTS
>
>    &END DFT
>
>    &SUBSYS
>
>       &CELL
>
>          ABC [angstrom] 3.91181515 3.91181515 3.91181515
>
>          PERIODIC XYZ
>
>          MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 2 2 2
>
>       &END CELL
>
>       &TOPOLOGY
>
> !         COORD_FILE_NAME  sfo_mp-510624.cif
>
> !         COORD_FILE_FORMAT  CIF
>
>          MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 2 2 2
>
>       &END TOPOLOGY
>
>       &COORD
>
>          SCALED
>
>          Sr  0.5  0.5  0.5
>
>          Fe  0.0  0.0  0.0
>
>          O   0.5  0.0  0.0
>
>          O   0.0  0.5  0.0
>
>          O   0.0  0.0  0.5
>
>       &END
>
>       &KIND Sr
>
>          ELEMENT Sr
>
>          BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>
>          POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q10
>
>          &BS
>
>            &ALPHA
>
>              NEL -2
>
>              L    0
>
>              N    5
>
>            &END ALPHA
>
>            &BETA
>
>              NEL -2
>
>              L    0
>
>              N    5
>
>            &END BETA
>
>          &END BS
>
>       &END KIND
>
>       &KIND Fe
>
>          ELEMENT Fe
>
>          BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>
>          POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q16
>
> !         MAGNETIZATION 4
>
>          &BS
>
>            &ALPHA
>
>              NEL -2   2
>
>              L    0   2
>
>              N    4   3
>
>            &END ALPHA
>
>            &BETA
>
>              NEL -2  -6
>
>              L    0   2
>
>              N    4   3
>
>            &END BETA
>
>          &END BS
>
>       &END KIND
>
>       &KIND O
>
>          ELEMENT O
>
>          BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH
>
>          POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6
>
>          &BS
>
>            &ALPHA
>
>              NEL  2
>
>              L    1
>
>              N    2
>
>            &END ALPHA
>
>            &BETA
>
>              NEL  2
>
>              L    1
>
>              N    2
>
>            &END BETA
>
>          &END BS
>
>       &END KIND
>
>    &END SUBSYS
>
> &END FORCE_EVAL
>
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