Menu

dftu with a specific U value give different band structures with and without autolinengy=True

Elk Users
Yuan Fang
2021-03-02
2021-03-11
  • Yuan Fang

    Yuan Fang - 2021-03-02

    Hello,
    I use elk 6.8.4 with dftu: 1 1.
    I calculate the band structure of a material. All the physical parameters are identical. Only difference for the two calculations is the use of autolinengy. And the result of the two calculations are very different as seen in the attachments. And this occurs only for a specific U=7, J=0. Both calculations are convergent but with the same warning "Warning(linengy): could not find 1 linearisation energies in s.c. loop .." even in the last step.
    I suspect that this is a bug of elk6.8.4.

     
  • Andrew Shyichuk

    Andrew Shyichuk - 2021-03-11

    Dear Yuan,

    The warning is your answer.
    I assume your calculations converge to a wrong state where some linengies are not found.
    If it is indeed so - the results are plane wrong and unusable.

    See e.g. this thread, but also search this forum for the warning.
    It has been discussed in many details before.

    Best regards.
    Andrew

     

Log in to post a comment.