# Crystalline aluminum : conventional cell, comparison with the primitive cell results ndtset 4 chkprim 0 #Definition of the k-point grid ngkpt 3*2 # This is a 2x2x2 grid, based on the conventional cell vectors nshiftk 1 shiftk 0.0 0.0 0.0 #k-point downsampling for Fock operator fockdownsampling 3*2 nstep 15 # Maximal number of SCF cycles toldfe 1.0d-8 # Will stop when, twice in a row, the difference #DATASET 1 LDA (the pseudopotential for Al is with LDA) #DATASET 2 HSE06 ixc2 -428 getwfk2 1 #DATASET 3 PBE0 ixc3 41 getwfk3 2 #DATASET 4 HSE03 ixc4 -427 getwfk4 1 #Definition of occupation numbers occopt 7 tsmear 0.04 #Definition of the unit cell acell 3*7.60 # This is equivalent to 7.60 7.60 7.60 #Definition of the atom types ntypat 1 # There is only one type of atom znucl 13 # The keyword "znucl" refers to the atomic number of the # possible type(s) of atom. The pseudopotential(s) # mentioned in the "files" file must correspond # to the type(s) of atom. Here, the only type is Aluminum #Definition of the atoms natom 4 # There is only one atom per cell typat 4*1 # This atom is of type 1, that is, Aluminum xred # This keyword indicate that the location of the atoms # will follow, one triplet of number for each atom 0.0 0.0 0.0 # Triplet giving the REDUCED coordinate of atom 1. 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 #Definition of the planewave basis set ecut 6.0 # Maximal kinetic energy cut-off, in Hartree pp_dirpath "$ABI_PSPDIR" pseudos "PseudosGTH_pwteter/13al.pspgth" #%% #%% [setup] #%% executable = abinit #%% [files] #%% files_to_test = #%% t73.out, tolnlines= 0, tolabs= 0.0e-00, tolrel= 0.0e-00 #%% [paral_info] #%% max_nprocs = 4 #%% [extra_info] #%% authors = X. Gonze #%% keywords = #%% description = #%% Crystalline aluminum, conventional cell. Test of downsampling for HSE06, PBE0, HSE03. #%% 2x2x2 for the k point grid in the FBZ #%% 1x1x1 for the k point grid for the Fock operator in the FBZ #%% The results can be directly compared with those of the test libxc#72, which use #%% a primitive cell, instead of the conventional one here. #%% The k point sampling (and down sampling) perfectly match. #%% The observed difference is only due to the differing xc correlation real space sampling. #%% Of course, the total energy from the present test is to be divided by 4, to find a total energy per atom. #%% The results are, in Ha/atom (present test for conventional cell / previous for primitive cell / difference): #%% LDA -2.075 716 / -2.075 718 / 0.000 002 #%% HSE06 -2.095 513 / -2.095 539 / 0.000 026 #%% PBE0 -2.081 192 / -2.081 193 / 0.000 001 #%% HSE03 -2.123 089 / -2.123 117 / 0.000 028 #%% The real space grid sampling cannot appear at the level of the Fock operator, #%% that is completely formulated in reciprocal space. The real space functional #%% from HSE06 and HSE03 is apparently more affected by the real space sampling than #%% the one from LDA and PBE0 ... #%%