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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hello Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I do not recommend the use of the PLUS_U_METHOD MULLIKEN_CHARGES. Just use the PLUS_U_METHOD MULLIKEN. The Mulliken population analysis can give unphysical orbital
occupations, i.e. values greater than one (UKS case) or two (RKS case). Often the maximum occupation is only slightly exceeded and the warning can be ignored safely. You can print the orbital occupations for the orbitals affected by the +U correction with
this <a href="https://manual.cp2k.org/cp2k-8_1-branch/CP2K_INPUT/FORCE_EVAL/DFT/PRINT/PLUS_U.html">
print key</a> at the PRINT_LEVEL medium to check the actual occupation. Note, that the U values found appropriate with PW codes in the literature are not necessarily optimal for CP2K, too. CP2K often gives a similar effect, e.g. impact on the band gap, for
smaller U values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Matthias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> cp...@googlegroups.com <...@googlegroups.com>
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Nicholas Winner<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 16. April 2021 22:57<br>
<b>An:</b> cp2k <...@googlegroups.com><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [CP2K:15147] DFT+U unphysical warning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hello all, I am running some DFT+U calculations on Mn-O systems. While I have found a cp2k effective U value in the literature of ~1.3 eV for Mn. I notice that when tuning the value myself, I begin seeing the following warning once the U value reaches 0.5eV.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>*** WARNING in dft_plus_u.F:2006 :: DFT+U energy contibution is negative ***<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> *** possibly due to unphysical Mulliken charges! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Now this is only a warning, not an indication that the calculation is *necessarily* wrong, but it is troubling at least. Especially when my U value is nowhere near the size of lit value. I am using PLUS_U_METHOD MULLIKEN_CHARGES in order to have a marginally
more robust solution. Does anyone have experience with how seriously to take this warning? I don't have a frame of reference to know if I should ignore it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>-Nick<o:p></o:p></p>
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