<div dir="ltr">Dear Andrea,<div><br></div><div>&gt;This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric &gt;field<br>&gt;calculation with spin-orbit coupling.<br><br><br>I have done electric field + SOC calculation already as suggested by Professor Gabriele Sclauzero.</div>
<div>Now the question is how to get spin up and spin down bnads?</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Kaloni</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Andrea Dal Corso <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dalcorso@sissa.it" target="_blank">dalcorso@sissa.it</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:27 +0300, Thaneshwor Kaloni wrote:<br>
&gt; Dear Professor Cyrille,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thank you very much for your prompt and kind reply.<br>
&gt; But still I am getting following kind of error with inclusion of<br>
&gt; nspin=4<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;  from iosys : error #         1<br>
&gt;      LSDA not available with electric field<br>
<br>
</div>This option is not implemented. You cannot do a finite electric field<br>
calculation with spin-orbit coupling.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
Andrea<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:18 PM, BARRETEAU Cyrille<br>
&gt; &lt;<a href="mailto:cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr">cyrille.barreteau@cea.fr</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;         If you want to use SOC or do non-collinear caculation you<br>
&gt;         should take nspin=4<br>
&gt;         (If you do not define nspin it will be automatically be set to<br>
&gt;         4)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;           Cyrille<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         ============================================================<br>
&gt;         Cyrille Barreteau                                 phone :      <a href="tel:%2B33%20%280%291%2069%2008%2029%2051" value="+33169082951">+33 (0)1 69 08 29 51</a><br>
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&gt;         FRANCE<br>
&gt;         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
&gt;         Web: <a href="http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/cyrille.barreteau/" target="_blank">http://iramis.cea.fr/Pisp/cyrille.barreteau/</a><br>
&gt;         ==============================================================<br>
&gt;<br>
</div>&gt;         ______________________________________________________________<br>
<div><div class="h5">&gt;         De : <a href="mailto:pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org">pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org">pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org</a>]<br>
&gt;         de la part de Thaneshwor Kaloni [<a href="mailto:tkaloni@gmail.com">tkaloni@gmail.com</a>]<br>
&gt;         Date d&#39;envoi : jeudi 5 juillet 2012 12:47<br>
&gt;         À : pw_forum<br>
&gt;         Objet : [Pw_forum] error with spin polarized calculation with<br>
&gt;         SOC<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         Dear QE Users,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         I would like to perform spin polarized calculations with SOC.<br>
&gt;         I am receiving following errors. Could anyone please assist<br>
&gt;         me?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         **************************************<br>
&gt;         INPUT<br>
&gt;         ***************************************<br>
&gt;         &amp;control<br>
&gt;             calculation=&#39;scf&#39;,<br>
&gt;             restart_mode=&#39;from_scratch&#39;,<br>
&gt;             prefix=&#39;C&#39;,<br>
&gt;             pseudo_dir = &#39;/home/kalonitp/code/pseudo/&#39;,<br>
&gt;             outdir=&#39;t/&#39;,<br>
&gt;             tefield = .true.<br>
&gt;             dipfield = .true.<br>
&gt;         /<br>
&gt;          &amp;system<br>
&gt;             ibrav = 4, a=3.86, b=3.86,<br>
&gt;             c=15,cosac=0.0, cosbc=0.0, cosab=-0.5<br>
&gt;             nat=2, ntyp=1, nbnd=10,<br>
&gt;             ecutwfc =60,<br>
&gt;             occupations=&#39;smearing&#39;,smearing=&#39;gaussian&#39;, degauss=0.05,<br>
&gt;             lspinorb=.true.<br>
&gt;             noncolin=.true.<br>
&gt;             nspin=2,<br>
&gt;             starting_magnetization=0.7<br>
&gt;             london=.true.<br>
&gt;             edir = 3<br>
&gt;             eamp = 0.001<br>
&gt;             emaxpos = 0.5<br>
&gt;             eopreg = 0.1<br>
&gt;         /<br>
&gt;          &amp;ELECTRONS<br>
&gt;             mixing_beta=0.7,<br>
&gt;             conv_thr = 1.0D-6,<br>
&gt;         /<br>
&gt;         ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
&gt;         Si    28.0855     Si.pbe-rrkj.UPF<br>
&gt;         ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)<br>
&gt;         Si      -0.001668875  -0.003337750   0.007491059<br>
&gt;         Si       0.331668875   0.663337750   0.037508941<br>
&gt;         K_POINTS {automatic}<br>
&gt;         8 8 1 0 0 0<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         ******************************************************<br>
&gt;         OUTPUT<br>
&gt;         *************************************************************<br>
&gt;              Program PWSCF v.4.3.1      starts on  5Jul2012 at<br>
&gt;         11:13:34<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;              This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO<br>
&gt;         suite<br>
&gt;              for quantum simulation of materials; please cite<br>
&gt;                  &quot;P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21<br>
&gt;         395502 (2009);<br>
&gt;                   URL <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org</a>&quot;,<br>
&gt;              in publications or presentations arising from this work.<br>
&gt;         More details at<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;          <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wiki/index.php/Citing_Quantum-ESPRESSO" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wiki/index.php/Citing_Quantum-ESPRESSO</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;              Parallel version (MPI), running on    10 processors<br>
&gt;              R &amp; G space division:  proc/pool =   10<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;              Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:<br>
&gt;              Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10<br>
&gt;              Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000<br>
&gt;              Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  3<br>
&gt;              Waiting for input...<br>
&gt;              Presently no symmetry can be used with electric field<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
&gt;         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
&gt;              from iosys : error #         1<br>
&gt;              noncolin .and. nspin==2 are conflicting flags<br>
&gt;          %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
&gt;         %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;              stopping ...<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;         Best, Kaloni<br>
&gt;         King Abdullah University of Science and Technology<br>
&gt;         KSA, Saudi Arabia<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; Best regards, Kaloni<br>
&gt; Web page:<br>
&gt; <a href="http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238" target="_blank">http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Andrea Dal Corso                    Tel. 0039-040-3787428<br>
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265              Fax. 0039-040-3787249<br>
I-34136 Trieste (Italy)             e-mail: <a href="mailto:dalcorso@sissa.it">dalcorso@sissa.it</a><br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Best regards, Kaloni<br>Web page:<br><a href="http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238">http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/thaneshwor-kaloni/18/955/238</a><br>
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