[CPMD-list] Au clusters with Vanderbilt USPP

Yvan Girard yvan at ms.ifoc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Sat Nov 27 05:47:40 CET 2004


Dear CPMD users,

For my very first steps with the CPMD calculations, I would like to perform 
some geometry optimization of Au clusters. I tried several pseudopotentials 
and functionnals, but I am a bit surprised by the results with VDB pp. Even 
with the simple Au-Au dimer, and after a very long geometry optimization, I 
finally get an interatomic distance of 3.4 angstroms (about 2.6 A expected). 
With Trouiller-Martin pseudopotentials, I get a reasonable distance (2.5 A) 
even with a very low cutoff value (40 Ry).

Can you tell me what I did wrong?

Yvan.

********************************************
INPUT FILE - starting geometry ~ 3 Ang.
with pp from http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~dhv/uspp/uspp-cur/Work/079-Au/


***********************
&CPMD
    OPTIMIZE GEOMETRY XYZ SAMPLE
    1
    CONVERGENCE ORBITALS
    1E-6
    CONVERGENCE GEOMETRY
    1E-4
    MEMORY BIG 
    PCG
    RHOOUT
    STORE
      35        
&END

&DFT
    FUNCTIONAL GGA
    GC-CUTOFF
    5.0E-06
&END

&SYSTEM
  SYMMETRY
  0
  ANGSTROM
  CELL
  8 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0
  CUTOFF
     40.
&END

&ATOMS
*079-Au-gpw-n-campos.uspp NEWF BINARY TPSEU
   LMAX=D
   2
4.359520854514      5.319510212275      5.000738935348
3.413895342766      2.595692582913      5.169297862747
     
&END



***************************************
Parts of the OUTPUT file :

**********************************
 PROGRAM CPMD STARTED AT: Thu Nov 18 23:55:47 2004
                          VERSION 3.9.1

THE JOB WAS SUBMITTED BY:                                   yvan

 OPTIMIZATION OF IONIC POSITIONS

 PATH TO THE RESTART FILES:                                    ./
 GRAM-SCHMIDT ORTHOGONALIZATION
 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STEPS:                             10000 STEPS
 PRINT INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                        35 STEPS
 STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY     10001 SELF-CONSISTENT STEPS
 NUMBER OF DISTINCT RESTART FILES:                              1
 TEMPERATURE IS CALCULATED ASSUMING EXTENDED BULK BEHAVIOR 
 STORE ELECTRON DENSITY AT THE END OF THE RUN
 FICTITIOUS ELECTRON MASS:                               400.0000
 TIME STEP FOR ELECTRONS:                                  5.0000
 TIME STEP FOR IONS:                                       5.0000
 CONVERGENCE CRITERIA FOR WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION:   1.0000E-06
 WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION BY PRECONDITIONED CG
 THRESHOLD FOR THE HESSIAN IS                              0.5000
 FULL ELECTRONIC GRADIENT IS USED 
 CONVERGENCE CRITERIA FOR GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION:     1.000000E-04
 GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION BY GDIIS/BFGS      
   SIZE OF GDIIS MATRIX:                                        5
GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION IS SAVED ON FILE GEO_OPT.xyz
 EMPIRICAL INITIAL HESSIAN (DISCO PARAMETRISATION) 
 SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN G-SPACE FOR PSEUDOPOTENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    NUMBER OF SPLINE POINTS:                                 5000
 
 EXCHANGE CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS 
    LDA EXCHANGE:                                            NONE
    LDA XC THROUGH PADE APPROXIMATION
    S.GOEDECKER, J.HUTTER, M.TETER PRB 54 1703 (1996)
    GRADIENT CORRECTED FUNCTIONAL
    DENSITY THRESHOLD:                                5.00000E-06
    EXCHANGE ENERGY
       [GGA: J.P. PERDEW ET AL. PHYS. REV. B 46, 6671 (1992)]
    CORRELATION ENERGY 
       [GGA: J.P. PERDEW ET AL. PHYS. REV. B 46, 6671
 (1992)]
 
***     DETSP| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS    1324/  18900 kBYTES ***



 >>>>>>>> CENTER OF MASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO CENTER OF BOX <<<<<<<<


 ***************************** ATOMS ****************************
   NR   TYPE        X(bohr)        Y(bohr)        Z(bohr)     MBL
    1     Au       8.452391      10.132538       7.399639       3
    2     Au       6.665417       4.985269       7.718169       3
 ****************************************************************

 NUMBER OF STATES:                                             11
 NUMBER OF ELECTRONS:                                    22.00000
 CHARGE:                                                  0.00000
 ELECTRON TEMPERATURE(KELVIN):                            0.00000
 OCCUPATION
  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0  2.0
 
   ============================================================   
   |  pseudopotential report: version  7.3.5 date 11- 9-2004  |   
   ------------------------------------------------------------   
   |  Au (US s-loc)        Perdew Wang 1991    exchange-corr  |   
   |  z =  79.00  zv =  11.00  exfact =   4.00000             |   
   |                            etot  =-101.80699             |   
   |  index    orbital      occupation    energy              |   
   |    1        520           9.50       -0.67               |   
   |    2        600           1.00       -0.52               |   
   |    3        610           0.50       -0.11               |   
   |  keyps = 3     ifpcor = 1                                |   
   |  rinner =      1.10     for L=    1                      |   
   |  rinner =      1.10     for L=    2                      |   
   |  rinner =      1.10     for L=    3                      |   
   |  rinner =      1.10     for L=    4                      |   
   |  rinner =      1.10     for L=    5                      |   
   |    new generation scheme:                                |   
   |    nbeta =  3     kkbeta =  747     rcloc =    2.3723    |   
   |    ibeta     l     epsilon   rcut iptype                 |   
   |       1      1      -0.11   2.37      3                  |   
   |       2      2      -0.67   1.90      2                  |   
   |       3      2       0.00   1.90      2                  |   
   |  npf    = 8  ptryc =  10.000                             |   
   |  lloc   = 0  eloc   =  -0.523                            |   
   |  ifqopt = 3  nqf    = 8  qtryc =  10.000                 |   
   |  all electron calculation used koelling-harmon equation  |   
   |         ************logarithmic mesh************         |   
   ============================================================   
 
 ****************************************************************
 *   ATOM       MASS   RAGGIO NLCC              PSEUDOPOTENTIAL *
 *    Au    196.9670   1.2000  YES              VANDERBILT      *
 ****************************************************************
 

 OPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPEN
 NUMBER OF CPUS PER TASK                                        1
 OPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPENMPOPEN

 ***     RGGEN| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS    6244/  31408 kBYTES ***

 ************************** SUPERCELL ***************************
 THIS IS AN ISOLATED SYSTEM CALCULATION 
 POISSON EQUATION SOLVER  :                               HOCKNEY
 COULOMB SMOOTHING RADIUS :                                 1.080
 SYMMETRY:                                           SIMPLE CUBIC
 LATTICE CONSTANT(a.u.):                                 15.11781
 CELL DIMENSION:  15.1178  1.0000  1.0000  0.0000  0.0000  0.0000
 VOLUME(OMEGA IN BOHR^3):                              3455.14651
 LATTICE VECTOR A1(BOHR):           15.1178     0.0000     0.0000
 LATTICE VECTOR A2(BOHR):            0.0000    15.1178     0.0000
 LATTICE VECTOR A3(BOHR):            0.0000     0.0000    15.1178
 RECIP. LAT. VEC. B1(2Pi/BOHR):      0.0661     0.0000     0.0000
 RECIP. LAT. VEC. B2(2Pi/BOHR):      0.0000     0.0661     0.0000
 RECIP. LAT. VEC. B3(2Pi/BOHR):      0.0000     0.0000     0.0661
 REAL SPACE MESH:                    64           64           64
 WAVEFUNCTION CUTOFF(RYDBERG):                           40.00000
 DENSITY CUTOFF(RYDBERG):          (DUAL= 4.00)         160.00000
 NUMBER OF PLANE WAVES FOR WAVEFUNCTION CUTOFF:              7386
 NUMBER OF PLANE WAVES FOR DENSITY CUTOFF:                  59133
 ****************************************************************
 
 ***  RINFORCE| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   21540/  47868 kBYTES ***
 ***    FFTPRP| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   28956/  45612 kBYTES ***
 ***   CLUSTER| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   31720/  48224 kBYTES ***

 GENERATE ATOMIC BASIS SET
     Au        SLATER ORBITALS
        5D        ALPHA=   3.9625      OCCUPATION=10.00
        6S        ALPHA=   0.8810      OCCUPATION= 1.00
 

 INITIALIZATION TIME:                               14.71 SECONDS

 ***    GMOPTS| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   32120/  54340 kBYTES ***
 ***     PHFAC| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   32312/  80952 kBYTES ***
 ***    ATOMWF| THE NEW SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS   34408/  83036 kBYTES ***
  ATRHO| CHARGE(R-SPACE):   22.000000      (G-SPACE):   22.000000

 ****************************************************************
 *                      ATOMIC COORDINATES                      *
 ****************************************************************
       1      Au           8.452391      10.132538       7.399639
       2      Au           6.665417       4.985269       7.718169
 ****************************************************************


 DEGREES OF FREEDOM FOR SYSTEM:                                 3
 
 INITIALIZE EMPIRICAL HESSIAN 
                           <<<<< ASSUMED BONDS >>>>>
    2 <-->  1
 TOTAL NUMBER OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURES:  1

 ****************************************************************
 *                      ATOMIC COORDINATES                      *
 ****************************************************************
       1      Au           8.452391      10.132538       7.399639
       2      Au           6.665417       4.985269       7.718169
 ****************************************************************

 CPU TIME FOR INITIALIZATION                         3.15 SECONDS


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 =                  GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION                       =
 ================================================================
 NFI      GEMAX       CNORM           ETOT        DETOT      TCPU
  EWALD| SUM IN REAL SPACE OVER                     1* 1* 1 CELLS
  
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]
[...]

 ****************************************************************
 *** TOTAL STEP NR.  9967           GEOMETRY STEP NR.    148  ***
 *** GNMAX=  2.082271E-02 [1.77E-03]     ETOT=    -71.375704  ***
 *** GNORM=  1.378784E-02               DETOT=     1.486E-05  ***
 *** CNSTR=  0.000000E+00                TCPU=        141.87  ***
 ****************************************************************
   1  2.737E-04   3.911E-05     -71.375701    2.312E-06      2.09
   2  2.409E-04   3.401E-05     -71.375704   -2.259E-06      2.08
   3  1.980E-04   2.747E-05     -71.375706   -2.360E-06      2.08
   4  1.591E-04   2.173E-05     -71.375707   -1.573E-06      2.07
   5  1.273E-04   1.721E-05     -71.375708   -9.093E-07      2.07
   6  1.019E-04   1.374E-05     -71.375709   -4.998E-07      2.07
   7  8.167E-05   1.106E-05     -71.375709   -2.648E-07      2.08
   8  6.550E-05   8.995E-06     -71.375709   -1.324E-07      2.08

 RESTART INFORMATION WRITTEN ON FILE                  ./RESTART.1
   9  5.256E-05   7.387E-06     -71.375709   -5.869E-08      2.07
  10  4.220E-05   6.125E-06     -71.375709   -1.853E-08      2.07
  11  3.389E-05   5.126E-06     -71.375709    2.500E-09      2.09
  12  2.577E-05   4.140E-06     -71.375709    1.833E-08      2.08
  13  1.961E-05   3.323E-06     -71.375709    2.760E-08      2.08
  14  1.575E-05   2.681E-06     -71.375709    2.928E-08      2.07
  15  1.329E-05   2.176E-06     -71.375709    2.694E-08      2.09
  16  1.183E-05   1.765E-06     -71.375709    2.317E-08      2.08
  17  1.063E-05   1.422E-06     -71.375709    1.904E-08      2.08
  18  9.609E-06   1.130E-06     -71.375709    1.494E-08      2.07
  19  8.742E-06   8.838E-07     -71.375709    1.099E-08      2.07
  20  7.996E-06   6.816E-07     -71.375709    7.339E-09      2.08
  21  7.346E-06   5.265E-07     -71.375709    4.173E-09      2.09
  22  6.750E-06   4.191E-07     -71.375709    1.815E-09      2.09
  23  6.199E-06   3.628E-07     -71.375709    4.852E-11      2.09
  24  5.681E-06   3.452E-07     -71.375709   -1.123E-09      2.09
  25  5.187E-06   3.449E-07     -71.375709   -1.801E-09      2.08
  26  4.711E-06   3.446E-07     -71.375709   -2.116E-09      2.09
  27  4.252E-06   3.355E-07     -71.375709   -2.188E-09      2.07
  28  3.813E-06   3.150E-07     -71.375709   -2.118E-09      2.07
  29  3.400E-06   2.840E-07     -71.375709   -1.981E-09      2.07
  30  3.021E-06   2.457E-07     -71.375709   -1.836E-09      2.08
  31  2.681E-06   2.046E-07     -71.375709   -1.718E-09      2.09
  32  2.383E-06   1.656E-07     -71.375709   -1.644E-09      2.50
  33  2.128E-06   1.333E-07     -71.375709   -1.615E-09      2.49
 ================================================================
 =              END OF GEOMETRY OPTIMIZATION                    =
 ================================================================



 RESTART INFORMATION WRITTEN ON FILE                  ./RESTART.1
 DENSITY WRITTEN TO FILE ./DENSITY                                                                                           

 ****************************************************************
 *                                                              *
 *                        FINAL RESULTS                         *
 *                                                              *
 ****************************************************************

   ATOM          COORDINATES            GRADIENTS (-FORCES)
   1 Au  8.6119 10.5919  7.3712  -2.086E-02  1.128E-02  3.680E-03
   2 Au  6.5060  4.5259  7.7466   2.047E-02 -1.151E-02 -3.616E-03
 
 ****************************************************************

 
 ELECTRONIC GRADIENT:
    MAX. COMPONENT =    2.12752E-06         NORM =    1.33338E-07
 NUCLEAR GRADIENT: 
    MAX. COMPONENT =    2.08582E-02         NORM =    1.37869E-02
 

 TOTAL INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC DENSITY
    IN G-SPACE =                                        22.000000
    IN R-SPACE =                                        22.000000


 VANDERBILT AUGMENTATION CHARGES (MEAN VALUE PER ATOM)
 ATOM TYPE    NR. OF ATOMS        CHARGE 
      Au           2               2.989

 (K+E1+L+N+X)           TOTAL ENERGY =          -71.37570921 A.U.
 (K)                  KINETIC ENERGY =            9.96017820 A.U.
 (E1=A-S+R)     ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY =          -75.01998936 A.U.
 (S)                           ESELF =           80.45335988 A.U.
 (R)                             ESR =            0.00000157 A.U.
 (L)    LOCAL PSEUDOPOTENTIAL ENERGY =           31.60118695 A.U.
 (N)      N-L PSEUDOPOTENTIAL ENERGY =          -24.03266576 A.U.
 (X)     EXCHANGE-CORRELATION ENERGY =          -13.88441923 A.U.
          GRADIENT CORRECTION ENERGY =            0.01582107 A.U.
 
 ****************************************************************


 ================================================================
                      BIG MEMORY ALLOCATIONS 
 SCR              1766222                SCR              1766216
 YLMB             1478325                SCR              1114753
 PSI              1098500                QRL               903600
 XF                549250                YF                549250
 RHOE              274625                HGPOT             274625
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 [PEAK NUMBER  107]      PEAK MEMORY      8568493 =   68.5 MBytes
 ================================================================


 ****************************************************************
 *                                                              *
 *                            TIMING                            *
 *                                                              *
 ****************************************************************
 SUBROUTINE            CALLS         CPU TIME        ELAPSED TIME
       RHOV            10001          2696.18             2735.50
        HIP            10001          2688.94             2730.54
       NEWD            10001          2572.46             2606.66
     GCENER            10150          2411.98             2446.98
      FWFFT            70753          1955.35             1983.73
     INVFFT            70604          1770.11             1796.58
   S_INVFFT           120012          1611.24             1631.97
    FFT-G/S           360036          1181.21             1198.60
    S_FWFFT            60006           937.43              952.64
       VPSI            10002           625.46              637.39
     RHOOFR            10001           585.01              597.16
     RNLSM1            20152           424.59              698.71
     XCENER            10150           386.14              392.24
      PHASE           141357           379.77              385.84
     GRADEN            10150           368.01              373.76
    NLFORCE            10000           294.59              298.43
    VOFRHOH            10001           239.94              243.15
    VOFRHOB            10001           212.65              215.08
     RNLSM2             2353           154.26              248.11
      COREC            10150           143.63              145.63
      OVLAP            20149            72.21              103.80
     EICALC            10001            62.36               63.50
     PCGRAD            10000            45.82               46.28
     FORCES            10000            38.81               39.82
     ROTATE            10000            31.70               32.48
     RGSVAN            10148            31.07               31.46
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 TOTAL TIME                          21920.92            22636.03
 ****************************************************************

       CPU TIME :    6 HOURS  5 MINUTES 44.65 SECONDS     
   ELAPSED TIME :    6 HOURS 17 MINUTES 43.15 SECONDS     

 PROGRAM CPMD ENDED AT:   Fri Nov 19 06:13:31 2004
________________
Yvan Girard 

Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
Kyushu University
Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan

http://trout.scc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/yoshizawaJ/Yoshizawa-lab-Eng/index-eng.htm
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