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#1 Post by linglin » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:08 am

I used optics to work out the EPS and found a strange phenomena:
0 NaN NaN
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0.4500000000000000 15.8730650828125700 82.4986122823371300
0.4548875000000000 15.6280745773936700 81.7180399923139000
0.4597750000000000 15.3872837289285700 81.0039784860626400
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Why the imaginary parts of the dielectric function(the last coulmb) are so large?And I see that of larger energy range seems OK.
I appreciate for any help.
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#2 Post by irene » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:00 pm

What kind of system are you dealing with? Is it metallic?
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#3 Post by linglin » Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:03 am

No, it's a insulator.(Badgap is about 4eV) I calculate again using VASP5.2. There's no NaN, but also very large value, and reach 0 abruptly when energy=0.
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#4 Post by linglin » Mon Jul 06, 2009 1:36 am

Can VASP5.2 deal with f electrons? I calculate the optical properties of a system containing 7 f electrons.
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#5 Post by alex » Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:04 am

yes
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#6 Post by linglin » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:20 am

Thank you. So the weird phenomenon may attribute to the divergency problem? I set NBANDS=190 for 94 valence electrons for considering ISPIN=2. It needs large memory……
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#7 Post by irene » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:14 am

Do you get a LDA gap of 4 eV?
Are you using the tetrahedron method?
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#8 Post by linglin » Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:18 am

I use GGA-PBE.
Yes, ISMEAR=-5
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