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If you want to use SOC or do non-collinear caculation you should take nspin=4 <br>
(If you do not define nspin it will be automatically be set to 4)<br>
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&nbsp; Cyrille<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF682979"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Tahoma"><b>De :</b> pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org [pw_forum-bounces@pwscf.org] de la part de Thaneshwor Kaloni [tkaloni@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Date d'envoi :</b> jeudi 5 juillet 2012 12:47<br>
<b>À :</b> pw_forum<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [Pw_forum] error with spin polarized calculation with SOC<br>
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<div>Dear QE Users,</div>
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<div>I would like to perform spin polarized calculations with SOC.</div>
<div>I am receiving following errors. Could anyone please assist me?</div>
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<div>**************************************</div>
<div>INPUT</div>
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<div>&amp;control</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; calculation='scf',</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; restart_mode='from_scratch',</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; prefix='C',</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; pseudo_dir = '/home/kalonitp/code/pseudo/',</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; outdir='t/',</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; tefield = .true.</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; dipfield = .true.</div>
<div>/</div>
<div>&nbsp;&amp;system</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; ibrav = 4, a=3.86, b=3.86,</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; c=15,cosac=0.0, cosbc=0.0, cosab=-0.5</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; nat=2, ntyp=1, nbnd=10,</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; ecutwfc =60,&nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; occupations='smearing',smearing='gaussian', degauss=0.05,</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; lspinorb=.true.</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; noncolin=.true.</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; nspin=2,</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; starting_magnetization=0.7</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; london=.true.</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; edir = 3 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; eamp = 0.001 &nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; emaxpos = 0.5</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; eopreg = 0.1</div>
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<div>&nbsp;&amp;ELECTRONS</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; mixing_beta=0.7,</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; conv_thr = 1.0D-6,</div>
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<div>ATOMIC_SPECIES</div>
<div>Si &nbsp; &nbsp;28.0855 &nbsp; &nbsp; Si.pbe-rrkj.UPF&nbsp;</div>
<div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)</div>
<div>Si &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-0.001668875 &nbsp;-0.003337750 &nbsp; 0.007491059</div>
<div>Si &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0.331668875 &nbsp; 0.663337750 &nbsp; 0.037508941</div>
<div>K_POINTS {automatic}</div>
<div>8 8 1 0 0 0</div>
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<div>OUTPUT</div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Program PWSCF v.4.3.1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;starts on &nbsp;5Jul2012 at 11:13:34&nbsp;</div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;for quantum simulation of materials; please cite</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&quot;P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; URL <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org</a>&quot;,&nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details at</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<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></div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Parallel version (MPI), running on &nbsp; &nbsp;10 processors</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;R &amp; G space division: &nbsp;proc/pool = &nbsp; 10</div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Current dimensions of program PWSCF are:</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Max number of k-points (npk) = &nbsp;40000</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) = &nbsp;3</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Waiting for input...</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Presently no symmetry can be used with electric field</div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;from iosys : error # &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1</div>
<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;noncolin .and. nspin==2 are conflicting flags</div>
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<div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;stopping ...</div>
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Best, Kaloni
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