Hi, All,<br>I wonder how to do broken symmetry calculations for a hydrogen molecule with a separation larger than 3.0 a.u. using pw.x code. As I understand, the in the region larger then 3.0 a.u. separation, the restricted wavefountion method, for instance the RHF, would fail, and UHF method or correlation method is needed. I don't know how to break the symmetry of alpha spin and beta spin using pw.x code. I tried to do that by spin-polarized calculations using the following input. The energy is 0.05 a.u.lower than the sipn-unpolarized method at he hydrogen separation of 2.4333672 angstom. But at the sepration of 2.0100254, the spin-polarized method gave much energy then sipn-unpolarized. Could you please check my input file? Mabye I have smething wrong.<br>
<br>Another question is about the binding energy of hydrgen molecule. I calculated the total engergy of H2 at 0.74 angstrom bond distanced and the energy H atom, and comapred the energy difference, I got a binding energy much higher than the experimental value of 436 kj/mol. I guess I did not calculate the energy of Hydrogen atom properly. Could you give me any suggestion how to do that? <br>
Thank you.<br><br>Qian<br><br><br><b>INPUT: Spin-polarized calculation</b><br>&control<br>/<br>&system<br> ibrav = 1<br> celldm(1) = 30.0<br> nat = 2<br> ntyp = 1<br>
nosym=.true.,<br> starting_magnetization(1)=1.0<br> nspin =2 <br> ecutwfc = 60.0<br> occupations = 'smearing'<br> degauss = 0.01<br> smearing = 'gaussian'<br>/<br>&electrons<br>
conv_thr = 1.0d-8<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> H 1.00 H.vbc.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}<br> H 0.0 0.0 0.0<br> H 2.4333672 0.0 0.0<br>K_POINTS AUTOMATIC<br>1 1 1 0 0 0<br>
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