# Finite difference calculation of the Born effective charges of AlAs # (after M. Veithen, 04.5.2005) # #Definition of the different datasets #************************************ ndtset 12 udtset 4 3 kptopt1? 3 kptopt2? 2 kptopt3? 4 kptopt4? 1 symmorphi 0 xcart?1 0.0000000000E+00 0.0000000000E+00 0.0000000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 xcart?2 1.0000000000E-02 0.0000000000E+00 0.0000000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 xcart?3 -1.0000000000E-02 0.0000000000E+00 0.0000000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 2.6325000000E+00 #Definition of the elementary cell #********************************* acell 3*10.53 rprim 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 #Definition of the atoms #*********************** natom 2 ntypat 2 znucl 13 33 typat 1 2 #Definition of the SCF procedure #******************************* tolvrs 1.0d-20 # ultratight convergence so all test # platforms show same convergence # behavior in the 10 allowed steps nstep 10 #Definition of the plane wave basis set #************************************** ecut 4 pawecutdg 8 ecutsm 0.5 dilatmx 1.05 ngkpt 2 2 2 # do not expect converged results with such # coarse k point mesh!! nshiftk 4 shiftk 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 # Berry phase calculation of the polarization #******************************************** nband 4 nbdbuf 0 berryopt -1 rfdir 1 1 1 pp_dirpath "$ABI_PSPDIR" pseudos "al_ps.abinit.paw, as_ps.paw" #%% #%% [setup] #%% executable = abinit #%% [files] #%% files_to_test = #%% t42.out, tolnlines = 0, tolabs = 0.0, tolrel = 0.0, fld_options = -easy #%% [paral_info] #%% max_nprocs = 1 #%% [extra_info] #%% authors = J. Zwanziger #%% keywords = PAW, DFPT #%% description = #%% PAW Berrys Phase calculation of Born effective charge in AlAs by #%% finite differences (contributed by J. Zwanziger, adapted from efield tutorial). #%% #%% MG: Very problematic in parallel (run get stuck!) #%%