Si HSE bandstructure
Description: Bandstructure for Si within DFT+HF
Bandstructure in VASP can be obtained following three different procedures. The standard procedure (procedure 1),
applicable at PBE level, is also described in Fcc Si bandstructure example.
Within Hybrid functional theory it is possible to plot bandstructure using procedure 2 or 3.
Procedure 1: Standard procedure (suitable for DFT calculations)
Only possible within DFT. Described in Fcc Si bandstructure example:
Standard self-consistent (SC) run
- POSCAR
system Si 5.430 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.5 2 cart 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.25 0.25
- INCAR (see INCAR.dft)
ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 NBANDS = 8
- KPOINTS (see KPOINTS.6)
6x6x6 0 G 6 6 6 0 0 0
Non-SC calculation (ICHARG=11)
Use preconverged CHGCAR file and a suitable KPOINTS file
- INCAR
ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 NBANDS = 8 ICHARG=11 #read charge from CHGCAR and keep fixed LORBIT=11
- KPOINTS (see KPOINTS_PBE_bands)
k-points for bandstructure L-G-X-U K-G 10 line reciprocal 0.50000 0.50000 0.50000 1 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000 1 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000 1 0.25000 0.62500 0.62500 1 0.37500 0.7500 0.37500 1 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1
Plot using p4v
P4VASP: p4v
Procedure 2: 0-weight (Fake) SC procedure (works DFT & hybrid functionals)
This procedure can be applied to compute bandstructure at hybrid functionals and DFT level.
Standard DFT run
Just as before
- INCAR (see INCAR.dft)
ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 NBANDS = 8
- KPOINTS (see KPOINST.6)
6x6x6 0 G 6 6 6 0 0 0
Hybrid calculation using a suitably modified KPOINTS file
- INCAR (see INCAR.hse)
ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 LHFCALC = .TRUE. ; HFSCREEN = 0.2 ; AEXX = 0.25 ALGO = D ; TIME = 0.4 ; LDIAG = .TRUE. EDIFF = 1.E-6 NBANDS = 8
- KPOINTS (see KPOINTS_HSE_bands.6 and README.txt)
Automatically generated mesh 26 Reciprocal lattice 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 1 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 8 0.33333333333333 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 8 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 4 0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 6 0.33333333333333 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 24 0.50000000000000 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 24 -0.33333333333333 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 24 -0.16666666666667 0.16666666666667 0.00000000000000 12 0.33333333333333 0.33333333333333 0.00000000000000 6 0.50000000000000 0.33333333333333 0.00000000000000 24 -0.33333333333333 0.33333333333333 0.00000000000000 12 0.50000000000000 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 3 0.50000000000000 0.33333333333333 0.16666666666667 24 -0.33333333333333 0.33333333333333 0.16666666666667 24 -0.33333333333333 0.50000000000000 0.16666666666667 12 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.000 0.00000000 0.05555556 0.05555556 0.000 0.00000000 0.11111111 0.11111111 0.000 0.00000000 0.16666667 0.16666667 0.000 0.00000000 0.22222222 0.22222222 0.000 0.00000000 0.27777778 0.27777778 0.000 0.00000000 0.33333333 0.33333333 0.000 0.00000000 0.38888889 0.38888889 0.000 0.00000000 0.44444444 0.44444444 0.000 0.00000000 0.50000000 0.50000000 0.000
Plot using p4v
P4VASP: p4v
Mind: Remove from the bandstructure plot the eigenvalues corresponding to the the regular k-points mesh.
Procedure 3: VASP2WANNIER90 (GW, Hybrids, PBE)
Wannier function interpolation using the VASP2WANNIER90 interface. Applicable in all cases (here applied for hybrids; for GW see Bandstructure_of_Si_in_GW_(VASP2WANNIER90) example).
Standard DFT run
- INCAR
## Default ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 GGA = PE ## HSE #LHFCALC = .TRUE. ; HFSCREEN = 0.2 ; AEXX = 0.25 #ALGO = D ; TIME = 0.4 ; LDIAG = .TRUE. ##VASP2WANNIER #LWANNIER90=.TRUE.
- KPOINTS
Automatically generated mesh 0 G 4 4 4 0 0 0
HSE + LWANNIER90 run
- INCAR
## Default ISMEAR = 0 SIGMA = 0.01 GGA = PE ## HSE LHFCALC = .TRUE. ; HFSCREEN = 0.2 ; AEXX = 0.25 ALGO = D ; TIME = 0.4 ; LDIAG = .TRUE. ##VASP2WANNIER LWANNIER90=.TRUE.
Use the wannier90.win file given below which contains all instructions needed to generate the necessary input files for the WANNIER90 runs (wannier90.amn, wannier90.mmn, wannier90.eig).
Mind: If the wannier90.win file does not exist VASP will create a default wannier90.win compatible with the POSCAR and INCAR files, which needs to be suitably modified by including the proper instruction required to generate the maximally localized wannier functions (refer to the WANNIER90 manual).
- wannier90.win
num_wann=8 num_bands=8 Begin Projections Si:sp3 End Projections dis_froz_max=9 dis_num_iter=1000 guiding_centres=true #restart = plot #bands_plot = true #begin kpoint_path #L 0.50000 0.50000 0.5000 G 0.00000 0.00000 0.0000 #G 0.00000 0.00000 0.0000 X 0.50000 0.00000 0.5000 #X 0.50000 0.00000 0.5000 K 0.37500 -0.37500 0.0000 #K 0.37500 -0.37500 0.0000 G 0.00000 0.00000 0.0000 #end kpoint_path #bands_num_points 40 #bands_plot_format gnuplot xmgrace begin unit_cell_cart 2.7150000 2.7150000 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.7150000 2.7150000 2.7150000 0.0000000 2.7150000 end unit_cell_cart begin atoms_cart Si 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 Si 1.3575000 1.3575000 1.3575000 end atoms_cart mp_grid = 4 4 4 begin kpoints 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.7500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 end kpoints
Compute Wannier functions
run wannier90:
wannier90.x wannier90
This run generates the wannier90 standard output (wannier90.wout) and the file wannier90.chk needed for the wannier interpolation (next step)
Obtain bandstructure (Wannier interpolation) and plot using XMGRACE or GNUPLOT
Uncomment the bandstructure plot flags in wannier90.win and rerun (restart) wannier90:
wannier90.x wannier90
This run generates the following bandstructure files which can be visualized using xmgrace or gnuplot:
wannier90_band.agr
wannier90_band.dat
wannier90_band.gnu
- README.txt
Bandstructure plot in VASP (Three different ways) 1) Standard way: PBE (Fcc Si bandstructure example). 1.1 Standard self-consistent (SC) run 1.2 non-SC calculation (ICHARG=11) using preconverged CHGCAR file and KPOINTS_PBE_bands 1.3 Plot using p4v 2) Fake SC procedure: PBE & HSE 2.1 Standard self-consistent (SC) run 2.2 Additional SC-run using KPOINTS_HSE_bands 2.3 Plot using p4v ---- The file KPOINTS_HSE_bands is constructed by copying the IBZKPT file from run 2.1 to the KPOINTS file: IBZKPT Automatically generated mesh 8 Reciprocal lattice 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 1 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 8 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 4 0.25000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 6 0.50000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 24 -0.25000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 12 0.50000000000000 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 3 -0.25000000000000 0.50000000000000 0.25000000000000 6 Then add the desired additional k-points with zero weight and change the total number of k-points Explicit k-points list 18 <--- CHANGE TOTAL NUMBER OF K-POINTS !! Reciprocal lattice 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 1 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 8 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 0.00000000000000 4 0.25000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 6 0.50000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 24 -0.25000000000000 0.25000000000000 0.00000000000000 12 0.50000000000000 0.50000000000000 0.00000000000000 3 -0.25000000000000 0.50000000000000 0.25000000000000 6 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.000 <--- ZERO WEIGHT !! 0.00000000 0.05555556 0.05555556 0.000 0.00000000 0.11111111 0.11111111 0.000 0.00000000 0.16666667 0.16666667 0.000 0.00000000 0.22222222 0.22222222 0.000 0.00000000 0.27777778 0.27777778 0.000 0.00000000 0.33333333 0.33333333 0.000 0.00000000 0.38888889 0.38888889 0.000 0.00000000 0.44444444 0.44444444 0.000 0.00000000 0.50000000 0.50000000 0.000 ---- 3) VASP2WANNIER90: PBE, HSE & GW 3.1 Standard SC run using the existing wannier.win file 3.2 run wannier90 (wannier90.x wannier90) to generate MLWFs 3.3 uncomment bandstructure plot flags in wannier90.win and restart wannier90 ---- If the wannier90.win file does not exist VASP will create a default wannier90.win compatible with the POSCAR and INCAR, which need to be suitably modify by including the proper instruction required to generate the MLWFs (refer to the wannier90 manual): default wannier90.win num_wann = 8 ! set to NBANDS by VASP use_bloch_phases = .T. begin unit_cell_cart 2.7150000 2.7150000 0.0000000 0.0000000 2.7150000 2.7150000 2.7150000 0.0000000 2.7150000 end unit_cell_cart begin atoms_cart Si 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 Si 1.3575000 1.3575000 1.3575000 end atoms_cart mp_grid = 4 4 4 begin kpoints 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 -0.5000000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 0.2500000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.0000000 0.2500000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.0000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.5000000 0.5000000 0.2500000 -0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.7500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 -0.2500000 -0.2500000 0.2500000 -0.5000000 end kpoints ----
Wannier90 Manual: WANNIER90 manual
LWANNIER90 in the VASP Manual: LWANNIER90.
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