Full List of INPUT Keywords¶
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suffix | ntype | calculation | esolver_type | symmetry | kpar | bndpar | latname | init_wfc | init_chg | init_vel | nelec | nupdown | dft_functional | xc_temperature | pseudo_rcut | pseudo_mesh | mem_saver | diago_proc | nbspline | kspacing | min_dist_coef | symmetry_prec | device
Variables related to input files
stru_file | kpoint_file | pseudo_dir | orbital_dir | read_file_dir | wannier_card
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ecutwfc | nx,ny,nz | pw_seed | pw_diag_thr | pw_diag_nmax | pw_diag_ndim
Numerical atomic orbitals related variables
nb2d | lmaxmax | lcao_ecut | lcao_dk | lcao_dr | lcao_rmax | search_radius | search_pbc | bx,by,bz
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basis_type | ks_solver | nbands | nbands_istate | nspin | smearing_method | smearing_sigma | smearing_sigma_temp | mixing_type | mixing_beta | mixing_ndim | mixing_gg0 | mixing_tau | mixing_dftu | gamma_only | printe | scf_nmax | scf_thr | chg_extrap | lspinorb | noncolin | soc_lambda
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method_sto | nbands_sto | nche_sto | emin_sto | emax_sto | seed_sto | initsto_freq | npart_sto
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relax_nmax | relax_method | relax_cg_thr | relax_bfgs_w1 | relax_bfgs_w2 | relax_bfgs_rmax | relax_bfgs_rmin | relax_bfgs_init | cal_force | force_thr | force_thr_ev | force_thr_ev2 | cal_stress | stress_thr | press1, press2, press3 | fixed_axes | cell_factor | fixed_ibrav | relax_new | relax_scale_force
Variables related to output information
out_force | out_mul | out_freq_elec | out_freq_ion | out_chg | out_pot | out_dm | out_wfc_pw | out_wfc_r | out_wfc_lcao | out_dos | out_band | out_proj_band | out_stru | out_bandgap | out_level | out_alllog | out_mat_hs | out_mat_r | out_mat_hs2 | out_hs2_interval out_element_info | restart_save | restart_load | dft_plus_dmft | rpa
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dos_edelta_ev | dos_sigma | dos_scale | dos_emin_ev | dos_emax_ev | dos_nche
Exact exchange (Under tests)
exx_hybrid_alpha | exx_hse_omega | exx_separate_loop | exx_hybrid_step | exx_lambda | exx_pca_threshold | exx_c_threshold | exx_v_threshold | exx_dm_threshold | exx_schwarz_threshold | exx_cauchy_threshold | exx_ccp_threshold | exx_ccp_rmesh_times | exx_distribute_type | exx_opt_orb_lmax | exx_opt_orb_ecut | exx_opt_orb_tolerence
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md_type | md_thermostat | md_nstep | md_restart | md_dt | md_tfirst, md_tlast | md_dumpfreq | md_restartfreq | md_seed | md_tfreq | md_tchain | md_pmode | md_pcouple | md_pfirst, md_plast | md_pfreq | md_pchain | lj_rcut | lj_epsilon | lj_sigma | pot_file | msst_direction | msst_vel | msst_vis | msst_tscale | msst_qmass | md_damp | md_tolerance | md_nraise
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vdw_method | vdw_s6 | vdw_s8 | vdw_a1 | vdw_a2 | vdw_d | vdw_abc | vdw_C6_file | vdw_C6_unit | vdw_R0_file | vdw_R0_unit | vdw_cutoff_type | vdw_cutoff_radius | vdw_radius_unit | vdw_cutoff_period | vdw_cn_thr | vdw_cn_thr_unit
Berry phase and wannier90 interface
berry_phase | gdir | towannier90 | nnkpfile | wannier_spin
TDDFT: time dependent density functional theory (Under tests)
td_force_dt | td_vext | td_vext_dire | td_stype | td_ttype | td_tstart | td_tend | td_lcut1 | td_lcut2 | td_gauss_freq | td_guass_phase | td_gauss_sigma | td_gauss_t0| td_gauss_amp | td_trape_freq | td_trape_phase | td_trape_t1 | td_trape_t2 | td_trape_t3 | td_trape_amp | td_trigo_freq1 | td_trigo_freq2 | td_trigo_phase1 | td_trigo_phase2 | td_trigo_amp | td_heavi_t0 | td_heavi_amp | td_hhg_amp1 | td_hhg_amp2 | td_hhg_freq1 | td_hhg_freq2 | td_hhg_phase1 | td_hhg_phase2 | td_hhg_t0 | td_hhg_sigma | out_dipole | ocp | ocp_set | td_val_elec_01 | td_val_elec_02 |td_val_elec_03
DFT+U correction (Under development)
dft_plus_u | orbital_corr | hubbard_u | yukawa_potential | yukawa_lambda | omc
Variables useful for debugging
nurse | t_in_h | vl_in_h | vnl_in_h | vh_in_h | vion_in_h | test_force | test_stress | colour | test_skip_ewald
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deepks_out_labels | deepks_scf | deepks_model | bessel_lmax | bessel_rcut | bessel_tol | deepks_bandgap | deepks_out_unittest
OFDFT: orbital free density functional theory
of_kinetic | of_method | of_conv | of_tole | of_tolp | of_tf_weight | of_vw_weight | of_wt_alpha | of_wt_beta | of_wt_rho0 | of_hold_rho0 | of_read_kernel | of_kernel_file | of_full_pw | of_full_pw_dim
Electric field and dipole correction
efield_flag | dip_cor_flag | efield_dir | efield_pos_max | efield_pos_dec | efield_amp
Gate field (compensating charge)
gate_flag | zgate | block | block_down | block_up | block_height
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cal_cond | cond_nche | cond_dw | cond_wcut | cond_wenlarge | cond_fwhm | cond_nonlocal
System variables¶
These variables are used to control general system parameters.
suffix¶
Type: String
Description: In each run, ABACUS will generate a subdirectory in the working directory. This subdirectory contains all the information of the run. The subdirectory name has the format: OUT.suffix, where the
suffix
is the name you can pick up for your convenience.Default: ABACUS
ntype¶
Type: Integer
Description: Number of different atom species in this calculation. If this value is not equal to the atom species in the STRU file, ABACUS will stop and quit. If not set or set to 0, ABACUS will automatically set it to the atom species in the STRU file.
Default: 0
calculation¶
Type: String
Description: Specify the type of calculation.
scf: do self-consistent electronic structure calculation
relax: do structure relaxation calculation, one can use
relax_nmax
to decide how many ionic relaxations you want.cell-relax: do variable-cell relaxation calculation.
nscf: do the non self-consistent electronic structure calculations. For this option, you need a charge density file. For nscf calculations with planewave basis set, pw_diag_thr should be <= 1e-3.
istate: For LCAO basis. Please see the explanation for variable
nbands_istate
.ienvelope: Envelope function for LCAO basis. Please see the explanation for variable
nbands_istate
.md: molecular dynamics
test_memory : checks memory required for the calculation. The number is not quite reliable, please use it with care
test_neighbour : only performs neighbouring atom search
gen_bessel : generates projectors (a series of Bessel functions) for DeePKS; see also keywords bessel_lmax, bessel_rcut and bessel_tol. A file named
jle.orb
will be generated which contains the projectors. An example is provided in examples/H2O-deepks-pw.get_S : only works for multi-k calculation with LCAO basis. Generates and writes the overlap matrix to a file names
SR.csr
in the working directory. The format of the file will be the same as that generated by out_mat_hs2.
Default: scf
esolver_type¶
Type: String
Description: choose the energy solver.
ksdft: Kohn-Sham density functional theory;
ofdft: orbital-free density functional theory;
tddft: real-time time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT);
lj: Leonard Jones potential;
dp: DeeP potential;
Default: ksdft
symmetry¶
Type: Integer
Description: takes value 1, 0 or -1.
if set to 1, symmetry analysis will be performed to determine the type of Bravais lattice and associated symmetry operations. (point groups only)
if set to 0, only time reversal symmetry would be considered in symmetry operations, which implied k point and -k point would be treated as a single k point with twice the weight.
if set to -1, no symmetry will be considered.
Default: 0
kpar¶
Type: Integer
Description: divide all processors into kpar groups, and k points will be distributed among each group. The value taken should be less than or equal to the number of k points as well as the number of MPI threads.
Default: 1
bndpar¶
Type: Integer
Description: divide all processors into bndpar groups, and bands (only stochastic orbitals now) will be distributed among each group. It should be larger than 0.
Default: 1
latname¶
Type: String
Description: Specifies the type of Bravias lattice. When set to
none
, the three lattice vectors are supplied explicitly in STRU file. When set to a certain Bravais lattice type, there is no need to provide lattice vector, but a few lattice parameters might be required. For more information regarding this parameter, consult the page on STRU file. Available options are (correspondence with ibrav in QE is given in parenthesis):none
: free structure.sc
: simple cubic. (1)fcc
: face-centered cubic. (2)bcc
: body-centered cubic. (3)hexagonal
: hexagonal. (4)trigonal
: trigonal. (5)st
: simple tetragonal. (6)bct
: body-centered tetragonal. (7)so
: orthorhombic. (8)baco
: base-centered orthorhombic. (9)fco
: face-centered orthorhombic. (10)bco
: body-centered orthorhombic. (11)sm
: simple monoclinic. (12)bacm
: base-centered monoclinic. (13)triclinic
: triclinic. (14)
Default:
none
init_wfc¶
Type: String
Description: Only useful for plane wave basis only now. It is the name of the starting wave functions. In the future. we should also make this variable available for localized orbitals set. Available options are:
atomic
: from atomic pseudo wave functions. If they are not enough, other wave functions are initialized with random numbers.atomic+random
: add small random numbers on atomic pseudo-wavefunctionsfile
: from filerandom
: random numbers
Default:
atomic
init_chg¶
Type: String
Description: This variable is used for both plane wave set and localized orbitals set. It indicates the type of starting density. If set to
atomic
, the density is starting from the summation of the atomic density of single atoms. If set this tofile
, the density will be read in from a file. Besides, when you donspin=1
calculation, you only need the density file SPIN1_CHGCAR. However, if you donspin=2
calculation, you also need the density file SPIN2_CHGCAR. The density file should be output with these names if you set out_chg = 1 in INPUT file.Default: atomic
init_vel¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Read the atom velocity from the atom file (STRU) if set to true.
Default: false
nelec¶
Type: Real
Description: If >0.0, this denotes the total number of electrons in the system. Must be less than 2*nbands. If set to 0.0, the total number of electrons will be calculated by the sum of valence electrons (i.e. assuming neutral system).
Default: 0.0
nupdown¶
Type: Real
Description: If >0.0, this denotes the difference number of electrons between spin-up and spin-down in the system. The range of value must in [-nelec ~ nelec]. It is one method of constraint DFT, the fermi energy level will separate to E_Fermi_up and E_Fermi_down. If set to 0.0, no constrain apply to system.
Default: 0.0
dft_functional¶
Type: String
Description: In our package, the XC functional can either be set explicitly using the
dft_functional
keyword inINPUT
file. Ifdft_functional
is not specified, ABACUS will use the xc functional indicated in the pseudopotential file. On the other hand, if dft_functional is specified, it will overwrite the functional from pseudopotentials and performs calculation with whichever functional the user prefers. We further offer two ways of supplying exchange-correlation functional. The first is using ‘short-hand’ names such as ‘LDA’, ‘PBE’, ‘SCAN’. A complete list of ‘short-hand’ expressions can be found in the source code. The other way is only available when compiling with LIBXC, and it allows for supplying exchange-correlation functionals as combinations of LIBXC keywords for functional components, joined by a plus sign, for example, ‘dft_functional=‘LDA_X_1D_EXPONENTIAL+LDA_C_1D_CSC’. The list of LIBXC keywords can be found on its website. In this way, we support all the LDA,GGA and mGGA functionals provided by LIBXC.Furthermore, the old INPUT parameter exx_hybrid_type for hybrid functionals has been absorbed into dft_functional. Options are
hf
(pure Hartree-Fock),pbe0
(PBE0),hse
(Note: in order to use HSE functional, LIBXC is required). Note also that HSE has been tested while PBE0 has NOT been fully tested yet, and the maximum CPU cores for running exx in parallel is \(N(N+1)/2\), with N being the number of atoms. And forces for hybrid functionals are not supported yet.If set to
opt_orb
, the program will not perform hybrid functional calculation. Instead, it is going to generate opt-ABFs as discussed in this article.Default: same as UPF file.
xc_temperature¶
Type: Real
Description: specifies temperature when using temperature-dependent XC functionals (KSDT and so on); unit in Rydberg
Default : 0.0
pseudo_rcut¶
Type: Real
Description: Cut-off of radial integration for pseudopotentials, in Bohr.
Default: 15
pseudo_mesh¶
Type: Integer
Description: If set to 0, then use our own mesh for radial integration of pseudopotentials; if set to 1, then use the mesh that is consistent with quantum espresso.
Default: 0
mem_saver¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Used only for nscf calculations. If set to 1, then a memory saving technique will be used for many k point calculations.
Default: 0
diago_proc¶
Type: Integer
Description: If set to a positive number, then it specifies the number of threads used for carrying out diagonalization. Must be less than or equal to total number of MPI threads. Also, when cg diagonalization is used, diago_proc must be the same as the total number of MPI threads. If set to 0, then it will be set to the number of MPI threads. Normally, it is fine just leave it to the default value. Only used for pw base.
Default: 0
nbspline¶
Type: Integer
Description: If set to a natural number, a Cardinal B-spline interpolation will be used to calculate Structure Factor.
nbspline
represents the order of B-spline basis and a larger one can get more accurate results but cost more. It is turned off by default.Default: -1
kspacing¶
Type: Real
Description: Set the smallest allowed spacing between k points, unit in 1/bohr. It should be larger than 0.0, and suggest smaller than 0.25. When you have set this value > 0.0, then the KPT file is unnecessary, and the number of K points nk_i = max(1, int(|b_i|/KSPACING)+1), where b_i is the reciprocal lattice vector. The default value 0.0 means that ABACUS will read the applied KPT file. Notice: if gamma_only is set to be true, kspacing is invalid.
Default: 0.0
min_dist_coef¶
Type: Real
Description: a factor related to the allowed minimum distance between two atoms. At the beginning, ABACUS will check the structure, and if the distance of two atoms is shorter than min_dist_coef*(standard covalent bond length), we think this structure is unreasonable. If you want to calculate some structures in extreme conditions like high pressure, you should set this parameter as a smaller value or even 0.
Default: 0.2
symmetry_prec¶
Type: Real
Description: The accuracy for symmetry judgment. The unit is Bohr.
Default: 1.0e-5
device¶
Type: String
Description: Specifies the computing device for ABACUS.
Available options are:
cpu
: for CPUs via Intel, AMD, or Other supported CPU devicesgpu
: for GPUs via CUDA.
Known limitations:
pw basis
: required by thegpu
acceleration optionscg ks_solver
: required by thegpu
acceleration options
Default:
cpu
Electronic structure¶
These variables are used to control the electronic structure and geometry relaxation calculations.
basis_type¶
Type: String
Description: This is an important parameter to choose basis set in ABACUS.
pw: Using plane-wave basis set only.
lcao_in_pw: Expand the localized atomic set in plane-wave basis.
lcao: Using localized atomic orbital sets.
Default: pw
ks_solver¶
Type: String
Description: It’s about the choice of diagonalization methods for the hamiltonian matrix expanded in a certain basis set.
For plane-wave basis,
cg: cg method.
dav: the Davidson algorithm. (Currently not working with Intel MKL library).
For atomic orbitals basis,
genelpa: This method should be used if you choose localized orbitals.
scalapack-gvx: scalapack can also be used for localized orbitals.
cusolver: this method needs building with the cusolver component for lcao and at least one gpu is available.
If you set ks_solver=
genelpa
for basis_type=pw
, the program will be stopped with an error message:genelpa can not be used with plane wave basis.
Then the user has to correct the input file and restart the calculation.
Default:
cg
(pw) orgenelpa
(lcao)
nbands¶
Type: Integer
Description: Number of Kohn-Sham orbitals to calculate. It is recommended you setup this value, especially when you use smearing techniques, more bands should be included.
Default:
nspin=1: 1.2*occupied_bands, occupied_bands + 10)
nspin=2: max(1.2*nelec_spin, nelec_spin + 10) , nelec_spin = max(nelec_spin_up, nelec_spin_down)
nspin=4: 1.2*nelec, nelec + 20)
nbands_istate¶
Type: Integer
Description: Only used when
calculation = ienvelope
orcalculation = istate
, this variable indicates how many bands around the Fermi level you would like to calculate.ienvelope
means to calculate the envelope functions of wave functions \(\Psi_{i}=\Sigma_{\mu}C_{i\mu}\Phi_{\mu}\), where \(\Psi_{i}\) is the ith wave function with the band index \(i\) and \(\Phi_{\mu}\) is the localized atomic orbital set.istate
means to calculate the density of each wave function \(|\Psi_{i}|^{2}\). Specifically, suppose we have highest occupied bands at 100th wave functions. And if you set this variable to 5, it will print five wave functions from 96th to 105th. But before all this can be carried out, the wave functions coefficients should be first calculated and written into a file by setting the flagout_wfc_lcao = 1
.Default: 5
nspin¶
Type: Integer
Description: Number of spin components of wave functions. There are only two choices now: 1 or 2, meaning non spin or collinear spin. For the case of noncollinear polarized, nspin will be automatically set to 4 without being specified in user input.
Default: 1
smearing_method¶
Type: String
Description: It indicates which occupation and smearing method is used in the calculation.
fixed: use fixed occupations.
gauss or gaussian: use Gaussian smearing method.
mp: use methfessel-paxton smearing method; recommended for metals.
fd: Fermi-Dirac smearing method: \(f=1/\{1+\exp[(E-\mu)/kT]\}\) and smearing_sigma below is the temperature \(T\) (in Ry).
Default: fixed
smearing_sigma¶
Type: Real
Description: energy range for smearing, the unit is Rydberg.
Default: 0.001
smearing_sigma_temp¶
Type: Real
Description: energy range for smearing, and is the same as smearing_sigma, but the unit is K. smearing_sigma = 1/2 * kB * smearing_sigma_temp.
mixing_type¶
Type: String
Description: Charge mixing methods. We offer the following 3 options:
plain: Just simple mixing.
pulay: Standard Pulay method.
broyden: Broyden method.
Default: pulay
mixing_beta¶
Type: Real
Description: mixing parameter: 0 means no new charge
Default: 0.7
mixing_ndim¶
Type: Integer
Description: It indicates the mixing dimensions in Pulay, Pulay method uses the density from previous mixing_ndim steps and do a charge mixing based on this density.
Default: 8
mixing_gg0¶
Type: Real
Description: When set to a positive number, the high frequency wave vectors will be suppressed by multiplying a scaling factor \(\frac{k^2}{k^2+gg0^2}\); if set to 0, then no Kerker scaling is performed.
Default: 0.0
mixing_tau¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Only relevant for meta-GGA calculations. If set to true, then the kinetic energy density will also be mixed. It seems for general cases, SCF converges fine even without this mixing. However, if there is difficulty in converging SCF for meta-GGA, it might be helpful to turn this on.
Default: False
mixing_dftu¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Only relevant for DFT+U calculations. If set to true, then the occupation matrices will also be mixed by plain mixing. From experience this is not very helpful if the +U calculation does not converge.
Default: False
gamma_only¶
Type: Integer
Description: It is an important parameter only to be used in localized orbitals set. If you set gamma_only = 1, ABACUS uses gamma only, the algorithm is faster and you don’t need to specify the k-points file. If you set gamma_only = 0, more than one k-point is used and the ABACUS is slower compared to the gamma only algorithm.
Note: If gamma_only is set to 1, the KPT file will be overwritten. So make sure to turn off gamma_only for multi-k calculations.
Default: 0
printe¶
Type: Integer
Description: Print out energy for each band for every printe step
Default: 100
scf_nmax¶
Type: Integer
Description: This variable indicates the maximal iteration number for electronic iterations.
Default: 100
scf_thr¶
Type: Real
Description: An important parameter in ABACUS. It’s the threshold for electronic iteration. It represents the charge density error between two sequential densities from electronic iterations. Usually for local orbitals, usually 1e-6 may be accurate enough.
Default: 1.0e-9
chg_extrap¶
Type: String
Description: Methods to do extrapolation of density when ABACUS is doing geometry relaxations.
atomic: atomic extrapolation
first-order: first-order extrapolation
second-order: second-order extrapolation
Default: atomic
lspinorb¶
Type: Boolean
Description: whether to consider spin-orbital coupling effect in the calculation. When set to 1,
nspin
is also automatically set to 4.Default: 0
noncolin¶
Type: Boolean
Description: whether to allow non-collinear polarization, in which case the coupling between spin up and spin down will be taken into account. If set to 1,
nspin
is also automatically set to 4.Default: 0
soc_lambda¶
Type: Real
Description: Relevant for soc calculations. Sometimes, for some real materials, both scalar-relativistic and full-relativistic can not describe the exact spin-orbit coupling. Artificial modulation may help in such cases.
soc_lambda
, which has value range [0.0, 1.0] , is used for modulate SOC effect.In particular,
soc_lambda 0.0
refers to scalar-relativistic case andsoc_lambda 1.0
refers to full-relativistic case.Default: 1.0
Electronic structure (SDFT)¶
These variables are used to control the parameters of stochastic DFT (SDFT), mix stochastic-deterministic DFT (MDFT), or complete-basis Chebyshev method (CT). We suggest using SDFT to calculate high-temperature systems and we only support smearing_method “fd”.
method_sto¶
Type: Integer
Description:
Different method to do SDFT.
1: SDFT calculates \(T_n(\hat{h})\ket{\chi}\) twice, where \(T_n(x)\) is the n-th order Chebyshev polynomial and \(\hat{h}=\frac{\hat{H}-\bar{E}}{\Delta E}\) owning eigenvalue \(\in(-1,1)\). This method cost less memory but is slower.
2: SDFT calculates \(T_n(\hat{h})\ket{\chi}\) once but need much more memory. This method is much faster. Besides, it calculates \(N_e\) with \(\bra{\chi}\sqrt{\hat f}\sqrt{\hat f}\ket{\chi}\), which needs a smaller nche_sto. However, when memory is not enough, only method 1 can be used.
other: use 2
Default: 2
nbands_sto¶
Type: Integer
Description:
nbands_sto>0: Number of stochastic orbitals to calculate in SDFT and MDFT. More bands obtain more precise results or smaller stochastic errors (\( \propto 1/\sqrt{N_{\chi}}\));
nbands_sto=0: Complete basis will be used to replace stochastic orbitals with the Chebyshev method (CT) and it will get the results the same as KSDFT without stochastic errors.
If you want to do MDFT. nbands which represents the number of KS orbitals should be set.
Default: 256
nche_sto¶
Type: Integer
Description: Chebyshev expansion orders for SDFT, MDFT, CT methods.
Default:100
emin_sto¶
Type: Real
Description: Trial energy to guess the lower bound of eigen energies of the Hamitonian Operator \(\hat{H}\). The unit is Ry.
Default:0.0
emax_sto¶
Type: Real
Description: Trial energy to guess the upper bound of eigen energies of the Hamitonian Operator \(\hat{H}\). The unit is Ry.
Default:0.0
seed_sto¶
Type: Integer
Description: The random seed to generate stochastic orbitals.
seed_sto>=0: Stochastic orbitals have the form of \(\exp(i2\pi\theta(G))\), where \(\theta\) is a uniform distribution in \((0,1)\). If seed_sto = 0, the seed is decided by time(NULL).
seed_sto<=-1: Stochastic orbitals have the form of \(\pm1\) with equal probability. If seed_sto = -1, the seed is decided by time(NULL).
Default:0
initsto_freq¶
Type: Integer
Description: Frequency (once each initsto_freq steps) to generate new stochastic orbitals when running md.
positive integer: Update stochastic orbitals
0: Never change stochastic orbitals.
Default:0
npart_sto¶
Type: Integer
Description: Make memory cost to 1/npart_sto times of the previous one when running post process of SDFT like DOS with method_sto = 2.
Default:1
Geometry relaxation¶
These variables are used to control the geometry relaxation.
relax_nmax¶
Type: Integer
Description: The maximal number of ionic iteration steps, the minimum value is 1.
Default: 1
cal_force¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, calculate the force at the end of the electronic iteration. 0 means the force calculation is turned off. It is automatically set to 1 if
calculation
iscell-relax
,relax
, ormd
.Default: 0
force_thr¶
Type: Real
Description: The threshold of the force convergence, it indicates the largest force among all the atoms, the unit is Ry=Bohr
Default: 0.001 Ry/Bohr = 0.0257112 eV/Angstrom
force_thr_ev¶
Type: Real
Description: The threshold of the force convergence, has the same function as force_thr, just the unit is different, it is eV/Angstrom, you can choose either one as you like. The recommended value for using atomic orbitals is 0.04 eV/Angstrom.
Default: 0.0257112 eV/Angstrom
force_thr_ev2¶
Type: Real
Description: The calculated force will be set to 0 when it is smaller than force_thr_ev2.
Default: 0.0 eV/Angstrom
relax_bfgs_w1¶
Type: Real
Description: This variable controls the Wolfe condition for BFGS algorithm used in geometry relaxation. You can look into the paper Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.,2000,2,2177 for more information.
Default: 0.01
relax_bfgs_w2¶
Type: Real
Description: This variable controls the Wolfe condition for BFGS algorithm used in geometry relaxation. You can look into the paper Phys.Chem.Chem.Phys.,2000,2,2177 for more information.
Default: 0.5
relax_bfgs_rmax¶
Type: Real
Description: This variable is for geometry optimization. It indicates the maximal movement of all the atoms. The sum of the movements from all atoms can be increased during the optimization steps. However, it will not be larger than relax_bfgs_rmax Bohr.
Default: 0.8
relax_bfgs_rmin¶
Type: Real
Description: This variable is for geometry optimization. It indicates the minimal movement of all the atoms. When the movement of all the atoms is smaller than relax_bfgs_rmin Bohr, and the force convergence is still not achieved, the calculation will break down.
Default: 1e-5
relax_bfgs_init¶
Type: Real
Description: This variable is for geometry optimization. It indicates the initial movement of all the atoms. The sum of the movements from all atoms is relax_bfgs_init Bohr.
Default: 0.5
cal_stress¶
Type: Integer
Description: If set to 1, calculate the stress at the end of the electronic iteration. 0 means the stress calculation is turned off. It is automatically set to 1 if
calculation
iscell-relax
.Default: 0
stress_thr¶
Type: Real
Description: The threshold of the stress convergence, it indicates the largest stress among all the directions, the unit is KBar,
Default: 0.01
press1, press2, press3¶
Type: Real
Description: the external pressures along three axes, the compressive stress is taken to be positive, and the unit is KBar.
Default: 0
fixed_axes¶
Type: String
Description: which axes are fixed when do cell relaxation. Possible choices are:
None : default; all can relax
volume : relaxation with fixed volume
shape : fix shape but change volume (i.e. only lattice constant changes)
a : fix a axis during relaxation
b : fix b axis during relaxation
c : fix c axis during relaxation
ab : fix both a and b axes during relaxation
ac : fix both a and c axes during relaxation
bc : fix both b and c axes during relaxation
Note : fixed_axes = “shape” and “volume” are only available for relax_new = 1
Default: None
fixed_ibrav¶
Type: Boolean
Description: when set to true, the lattice type will be preserved during relaxation. Must be used along with relax_new set to true, and a specific latname must be provided
Note: it is possible to use fixed_ibrav with fixed_axes, but please make sure you know what you are doing. For example, if we are doing relaxation of a simple cubic lattice (latname = “sc”), and we use fixed_ibrav along with fixed_axes = “volume”, then the cell is never allowed to move and as a result, the relaxation never converges.
Default: False
fixed_atoms¶
Type: Boolean
Description: when set to true, the direct coordinates of atoms will be preserved during variable-cell relaxation. If set to false, users can still fix certain components of certain atoms by using the
m
keyword inSTRU
file. For the latter option, check the end of this instruction.Default: False
relax_method¶
Type: String
Description: The method to do geometry optimizations, note that there are two implementations of the CG method, see relax_new:
bfgs: using BFGS algorithm.
sd: using steepest-descent algorithm.
cg: using cg algorithm.
Default: cg
relax_cg_thr¶
Type: Real
Description: When move-method is set to ‘cg-bfgs’, a mixed cg-bfgs algorithm is used. The ions first move according to cg method, then switched to bfgs when the maximum of force on atoms is reduced below cg-threshold. The unit is eV/Angstrom.
Default: 0.5
relax_new¶
Type: Boolean
Description: At around the end of 2022 we made a new implementation of the CG method for relax and cell-relax calculations. But the old implementation was also kept. To use the new method, set relax_new to true. To use the old one, set it to false.
Default: True
relax_scale_force¶
Type: Real
Description: This parameter is only relavant when
relax_new
is set to True. It controls the size of the first CG step. A smaller value means the first step along a new CG direction is smaller. This might be helpful for large systems, where it is safer to take a smaller initial step to prevent the collapse of the whole configuration.Default: 0.5
cell_factor¶
Type: Real
Description: Used in the construction of the pseudopotential tables. It should exceed the maximum linear contraction of the cell during a simulation.
Default: 1.2
Density of states¶
These variables are used to control the calculation of DOS.
dos_edelta_ev¶
Type: Real
Description: controls the step size in writing DOS (in eV).
Default: 0.01
dos_sigma¶
Type: Real
Description: controls the width of Gaussian factor when obtaining smeared DOS (in eV).
Default: 0.07
dos_scale¶
Type: Real
Description: the energy range of dos output is given by (emax-emin)*(1+dos_scale), centered at (emax+emin)/2. This parameter will be used when dos_emin and dos_emax are not set.
Default: 0.01
dos_emin_ev¶
Type: Real
Description: minimal range for dos (in eV). If we set it, “dos_scale” will be ignored.
Default: minimal eigenenergy of \(\hat{H}\)
dos_emax_ev¶
Type: Real
Description: maximal range for dos (in eV). If we set it, “dos_scale” will be ignored.
Default: maximal eigenenergy of \(\hat{H}\)
dos_nche¶
Type: Integer
Description: orders of Chebyshev expansions when using SDFT to calculate DOS
Default: 100
DeePKS¶
These variables are used to control the usage of DeePKS method (a comprehensive data-driven approach to improve the accuracy of DFT). Warning: this function is not robust enough for the current version. Please try the following variables at your own risk:
deepks_out_labels¶
Type: Boolean
Description: when set to 1, ABACUS will calculate and output descriptor for DeePKS training. In
LCAO
calculation, a path of *.orb file is needed to be specified underNUMERICAL_DESCRIPTOR
inSTRU
file. For example:NUMERICAL_ORBITAL H_gga_8au_60Ry_2s1p.orb O_gga_7au_60Ry_2s2p1d.orb NUMERICAL_DESCRIPTOR jle.orb
NUMERICAL_DESCRIPTOR jle.orb
Default: 0
deepks_scf¶
Type: Boolean
Description: only when deepks is enabled in
LCAO
calculation can this variable set to 1. Then, a trained, traced model file is needed for self-consistent field iteration in DeePKS method.Default: 0
deepks_model¶
Type: String
Description: the path of the trained, traced NN model file (generated by deepks-kit). used when deepks_scf is set to 1.
Default: None
bessel_lmax¶
Type: Integer
Description: the projectors used in DeePKS are bessel functions. To generate such projectors, set calculation type to
gen_bessel
and run ABACUS. The lmax of Bessel functions is specified using bessel_lmax. See also calculation.Default: 2
bessel_rcut¶
Type: Real
Description: cutoff radius of bessel functions. See also
bessel_lmax
.Default: 6.0
bessel_tol¶
Type: Real
Description: tolerance when searching for the zeros of bessel functions. See also
bessel_lmax
.Default: 1.0e-12
deepks_bandgap¶
Type: Boolean
Description: whether to include deepks bandgap correction.
Default: False
deepks_out_unittest¶
Type: Boolean
Description: this is used to generate some files for constructing DeePKS unit test. Not relevant when running actual calculations. When set to 1, ABACUS needs to be run with only 1 process.
Default: False
OFDFT: orbital free density functional theory¶
of_kinetic¶
Type: string
Description: the type of kinetic energy density functional, including tf, vw, wt, and tf+.
Default: wt
of_method¶
Type: string
Description: the optimization method used in OFDFT.
cg1: Polak-Ribiere. Standard CG algorithm.
cg2: Hager-Zhang (generally faster than cg1).
tn: Truncated Newton algorithm.
Default:tn
of_conv¶
Type: string
Description: criterion used to check the convergence of OFDFT.
energy: total energy changes less than ‘of_tole’.
potential: the norm of potential is less than ‘of_tolp’.
both: both energy and potential must satisfy the convergence criterion.
Default: energy
of_tole¶
Type: Double
Description: tolerance of the energy change (in Ry) for determining the convergence.
Default: 2e-6
of_tolp¶
Type: Double
Description: tolerance of potential (in a.u.) for determining the convergence.
Default: 1e-5
of_tf_weight¶
Type: Double
Description: weight of TF KEDF.
Default: 1
of_vw_weight¶
Type: Double
Description: weight of vW KEDF.
Default: 1
of_wt_alpha¶
Type: Double
Description: parameter alpha of WT KEDF.
Default: \(5/6\)
of_wt_beta¶
Type: Double
Description: parameter beta of WT KEDF.
Default: \(5/6\)
of_wt_rho0¶
Type: Double
Description: the average density of system, in Bohr^-3.
Default: 0
of_hold_rho0¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, the rho0 will be fixed even if the volume of system has changed, it will be set to 1 automatically if of_wt_rho0 is not zero.
Default: 0
of_read_kernel¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, the kernel of WT KEDF will be filled from file of_kernel_file, not from formula. Only usable for WT KEDF.
Default: 0
of_kernel_file¶
Type: String
Description: The name of WT kernel file.
Default: WTkernel.txt
of_full_pw¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, ecut will be ignored while collecting planewaves, so that all planewaves will be used in FFT.
Default: 1
of_full_pw_dim¶
Type: Integer
Description: If of_full_pw = 1, the dimension of FFT will be restricted to be (0) either odd or even; (1) odd only; (2) even only. Note that even dimensions may cause slight errors in FFT. It should be ignorable in ofdft calculation, but it may make Cardinal B-spline interpolation unstable, so set
of_full_pw_dim = 1
ifnbspline != -1
.Default: 0
Electric field and dipole correction¶
These variables are relevant to electric field and dipole correction
efield_flag¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to true, a saw-like potential simulating an electric field is added to the bare ionic potential.
Default: false
dip_cor_flag¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If dip_cor_flag == true and efield_flag == true, a dipole correction is also added to the bare ionic potential. If you want no electric field, parameter efield_amp should be zero. Must be used ONLY in a slab geometry for surface calculations, with the discontinuity FALLING IN THE EMPTY SPACE.
Default: false
efield_dir¶
Type: Integer
Description: The direction of the electric field or dipole correction is parallel to the reciprocal lattice vector, so the potential is constant in planes defined by FFT grid points, efield_dir = 0, 1 or 2. Used only if efield_flag == true.
Default: 2
efield_pos_max¶
Type: Real
Description: Position of the maximum of the saw-like potential along crystal axis efield_dir, within the unit cell, 0 < efield_pos_max < 1. Used only if efield_flag == true.
Default: 0.5
efield_pos_dec¶
Type: Real
Description: Zone in the unit cell where the saw-like potential decreases, 0 < efield_pos_dec < 1. Used only if efield_flag == true.
Default: 0.1
efield_amp¶
Type: Real
Description: Amplitude of the electric field, in Hartree a.u.; 1 a.u. = 51.4220632*10^10 V/m. Used only if efield_flag == true. The saw-like potential increases with slope efield_amp in the region from (efield_pos_max+efield_pos_dec-1) to (efield_pos_max), then decreases until (efield_pos_max+efield_pos_dec), in units of the crystal vector efield_dir. Important: the change of slope of this potential must be located in the empty region, or else unphysical forces will result.
Default: 0.0
Gate field (compensating charge)¶
These variables are relevant to gate field (compensating charge)
gate_flag¶
Type: Boolean
Description: In the case of charged cells, setting gate_flag == true represents the addition of compensating charge by a charged plate, which is placed at zgate. Note that the direction is specified by efield_dir.
Default: false
zgate¶
Type: Real
Description: Specify the position of the charged plate in units of the unit cell (0 <= zgate < 1).
Default: 0.5
block¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Add a potential barrier to the total potential to avoid electrons spilling into the vacuum region for electron doping. Potential barrier is from block_down to block_up and has a height of block_height. If dip_cor_flag == true, efield_pos_dec is used for a smooth increase and decrease of the potential barrier.
Default: false
block_down¶
Type: Real
Description: Lower beginning of the potential barrier in units of the unit cell size (0 <= block_down < block_up < 1).
Default: 0.45
block_up¶
Type: Real
Description: Upper beginning of the potential barrier in units of the unit cell size (0 <= block_down < block_up < 1).
Default: 0.55
block_height¶
Type: Real
Description: Height of the potential barrier in Rydberg.
Default: 0.1
Exact Exchange¶
These variables are relevant when using hybrid functionals
exx_hybrid_alpha¶
Type: Real
Description: fraction of Fock exchange in hybrid functionals, so that \(E_{X}=\alpha F_{X}+(1-\alpha)E_{X,LDA/GGA}\)
Default: 0.25
exx_hse_omega¶
Type: Real
Description: range-separation parameter in HSE functional, such that \(1/r=erfc(\omega r)/r+erf(\omega r)/r\).
Default: 0.11
exx_separate_loop¶
Type: Boolean
Description: There are two types of iterative approaches provided by ABACUS to evaluate Fock exchange. If this parameter is set to 0, it will start with a GGA-Loop, and then Hybrid-Loop, in which EXX Hamiltonian \(H_{exx}\) is updated with electronic iterations. If this parameter is set to 1, a two-step method is employed, i.e. in the inner iterations, density matrix is updated, while in the outer iterations, \(H_{exx}\) is calculated based on density matrix that converges in the inner iteration.
Default: 1
exx_hybrid_step¶
Type: Integer
Description: This variable indicates the maximal electronic iteration number in the evaluation of Fock exchange.
Default: 100
exx_lambda¶
Type: Real
Description: It is used to compensate for divergence points at G=0 in the evaluation of Fock exchange using lcao_in_pw method.
Default: 0.3
exx_pca_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: To accelerate the evaluation of four-center integrals (\(ik|jl\)), the product of atomic orbitals are expanded in the basis of auxiliary basis functions (ABF): \(\Phi_{i}\Phi_{j}\sim C^{k}_{ij}P_{k}\). The size of the ABF (i.e. number of \(P_{k}\)) is reduced using principal component analysis. When a large PCA threshold is used, the number of ABF will be reduced, hence the calculation becomes faster. However, this comes at the cost of computational accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 1e-4.
Default: 0
exx_c_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: See also the entry exx_pca_threshold. Smaller components (less than exx_c_threshold) of the \(C^{k}_{ij}\) matrix are neglected to accelerate calculation. The larger the threshold is, the faster the calculation and the lower the accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 1e-4.
Default: 0
exx_v_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: See also the entry exx_pca_threshold. With the approximation \(\Phi_{i}\Phi_{j}\sim C^{k}_{ij}P_{k}\), the four-center integral in Fock exchange is expressed as \((ik|jl)=\Sigma_{a,b}C^{a}_{ij}V_{ab}C^{b}_{kl}\), where \(V_{ab}=(P_{a}|P_{b})\) is a double-center integral. Smaller values of the V matrix can be truncated to accelerate calculation. The larger the threshold is, the faster the calculation and the lower the accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 0, i.e. no truncation.
Default: 0
exx_dm_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: The Fock exchange can be expressed as \(\Sigma_{k,l}(ik|jl)D_{kl}\) where D is the density matrix. Smaller values of the density matrix can be truncated to accelerate calculation. The larger the threshold is, the faster the calculation and the lower the accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 1e-4.
Default: 0
exx_schwarz_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: In practice the four-center integrals are sparse, and using Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, we can find an upper bound of each integral before carrying out explicit evaluations. Those that are smaller than exx_schwarz_threshold will be truncated. The larger the threshold is, the faster the calculation and the lower the accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 1e-5.
Default: 0
exx_cauchy_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: In practice the Fock exchange matrix is sparse, and using Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, we can find an upper bound of each matrix element before carrying out explicit evaluations. Those that are smaller than exx_cauchy_threshold will be truncated. The larger the threshold is, the faster the calculation and the lower the accuracy. A relatively safe choice of the value is 1e-7.
Default: 0
exx_ccp_threshold¶
Type: Real
Description: It is related to the cutoff of on-site Coulomb potentials, currently not used.
Default: 1e-8
exx_ccp_rmesh_times¶
Type: Real
Description: This parameter determines how many times larger the radial mesh required for calculating Columb potential is to that of atomic orbitals. For HSE1, setting it to 1 is enough. But for PBE0, a much larger number must be used.
Default: 10
exx_distribute_type¶
Type: String
Description: When running in parallel, the evaluation of Fock exchange is done by distributing atom pairs on different threads, then gather the results. exx_distribute_type governs the mechanism of distribution. Available options are
htime
,order
,kmean1
andkmeans2
.order
is where atom pairs are simply distributed by their orders.hmeans
is a distribution where the balance in time is achieved on each processor, hence if the memory is sufficient, this is the recommended method.kmeans1
andkmeans2
are two methods where the k-means clustering method is used to reduce memory requirement. They might be necessary for very large systems.Default:
htime
exx_opt_orb_lmax¶
Type: Integer
Description: See also the entry dft_functional. This parameter is only relevant when dft_functional=
opt_orb
. The radial part of opt-ABFs are generated as linear combinations of spherical Bessel functions. exx_opt_orb_lmax gives the maximum l of the spherical Bessel functions. A reasonable choice is 2.Default: 0
exx_opt_orb_ecut¶
Type: Real
Description: See also the entry dft_functional. This parameter is only relevant when dft_functional=
opt_orb
. A plane wave basis is used to optimize the radial ABFs. This parameter thus gives the cut-off of plane wave expansion, in Ry. A reasonable choice is 60.Default: 0
exx_opt_orb_tolerence¶
Type: Real
Description: See also the entry dft_functional. This parameter is only relevant when dft_functional=
opt_orb
. exx_opt_orb_tolerence determines the threshold when solving for the zeros of spherical Bessel functions. A reasonable choice is 1e-12.Default: 0
exx_real_number¶
Type: Boolen
Description: If set to 1, it will enforce LIBRI to use
double
data type, otherwise, it will enforce LIBRI to usecomplex
data type. The default value depends on the gamma_only option.Default: 1 if gamma_only else 0
Molecular dynamics¶
These variables are used to control the molecular dynamics calculations.
md_type¶
Type: Integer
Description: control the algorithm to integrate the equation of motion for md. When
md_type
is set to 0,md_thermostat
is used to specify the thermostat based on the velocity Verlet algorithm.-1: FIRE method to relax;
0: velocity Verlet algorithm (default: NVE ensemble);
1: Nose-Hoover style non-Hamiltonian equations of motion;
2: NVT ensemble with Langevin method;
4: MSST method;
Note: when md_type is set to 1, md_tfreq is required to stablize temperature. It is an empirical parameter whose value is system-dependent, ranging from 1/(40*md_dt) to 1/(100*md_dt). An improper choice of its value might lead to failure of job.
Default: 1
md_thermostat¶
Type: String
Description: specify the thermostat based on the velocity Verlet algorithm (useful when
md_type
is set to 0).nve: NVE ensemble.
anderson: NVT ensemble with Anderson thermostat, see the parameter
md_nraise
.berendsen: NVT ensemble with Berendsen thermostat, see the parameter
md_nraise
.rescaling: NVT ensemble with velocity Rescaling method 1, see the parameter
md_tolerance
.rescale_v: NVT ensemble with velocity Rescaling method 2, see the parameter
md_nraise
.
Default: NVE
md_nstep¶
Type: Integer
Description: the total number of md steps.
Default: 10
md_restart¶
Type: Boolean
Description: to control whether restart md.
0: When set to 0, ABACUS will calculate md normally.
1: When set to 1, ABACUS will calculate md from the last step in your test before.
Default: 0
md_dt¶
Type: Real
Description: This is the time step(fs) used in md simulation.
Default: 1.0
md_tfirst, md_tlast¶
Type: Real
Description: This is the temperature (K) used in md simulation. The default value of md_tlast is md_tfirst. If md_tlast is set to be different from md_tfirst, ABACUS will automatically change the temperature from md_tfirst to md_tlast.
Default: No default
md_dumpfreq¶
Type: Integer
Description: This is the frequency to dump md information.
Default: 1
md_restartfreq¶
Type: Integer
Description: This is the frequency to output restart information.
Default: 5
md_seed¶
Type: Integer
Description:
md_seed < 0: No srand() in MD initialization.
md_seed >= 0: srand(md_seed) in MD initialization.
Default: -1
md_tfreq¶
Type: Real
Description: control the frequency of the temperature oscillations during the simulation. If it is too large, the temperature will fluctuate violently; if it is too small, the temperature will take a very long time to equilibrate with the atomic system.
Default: 1/40/md_dt
md_tchain¶
Type: Integer
Description: number of thermostats coupled with the particles in the Nose Hoover Chain method.
Default: 1
md_pmode¶
Type: String
Description: specify the NVT or NPT ensemble based on the Nose-Hoover style non-Hamiltonian equations of motion.
none: NVT ensemble.
iso: NPT ensemble with isotropic cetl fluctuations.
aniso: NPT ensemble with anisotropic cetl fluctuations.
tri: NPT ensemble with non-orthogonal (triclinic) simulation box.
Default: none
md_pcouple¶
Type: String
Description: the coupled lattice vectors will scale proportionally.
none: three lattice vectors scale independently.
xyz: lattice vectors x, y, and z scale proportionally.
xy: lattice vectors x and y scale proportionally.
xz: lattice vectors x and z scale proportionally.
yz: lattice vectors y and z scale proportionally.
Default: none
md_pfirst, md_plast¶
Type: Real
Description: This is the target pressure (KBar) used in npt ensemble simulation, the default value of
md_plast
ismd_pfirst
. Ifmd_plast
is set to be different frommd_pfirst
, ABACUS will automatically change the target pressure frommd_pfirst
tomd_plast
.Default: No default
md_pfreq¶
Type: Real
Description: control the frequency of the pressure oscillations during the NPT ensemble simulation. If it is too large, the pressure will fluctuate violently; if it is too small, the pressure will take a very long time to equilibrate with the atomic system.
Default: 1/400/md_dt
md_pchain¶
Type: Integer
Description: number of thermostats coupled with the barostat in the Nose Hoover Chain method.
Default: 1
lj_rcut¶
Type: Real
Description: Cut-off radius for Leonard Jones potential (angstrom).
Default: 8.5 (for He)
lj_epsilon¶
Type: Real
Description: The value of epsilon for Leonard Jones potential (eV).
Default: 0.01032 (for He)
lj_sigma¶
Type: Real
Description: The value of sigma for Leonard Jones potential (angstrom).
Default: 3.405 (for He)
pot_file¶
Type: String
Description: The filename of potential files for CMD such as DP.
Default: graph.pb
msst_direction¶
Type: Integer
Description: the direction of shock wave for MSST.
Default: 2 (z direction)
msst_vel¶
Type: Real
Description: the velocity of shock wave (Angstrom/fs) for MSST.
Default: 0.0
msst_vis¶
Type: Real
Description: artificial viscosity (mass/length/time) for MSST.
Default: 0.0
msst_tscale¶
Type: Real
Description: reduction in initial temperature (0~1) used to compress volume in MSST.
Default: 0.01
msst_qmass¶
Type: Real
Description: Inertia of extended system variable. Used only when md_type is 4, you should set a number that is larger than 0. Note that Qmass of NHC is set by md_tfreq.
Default: No default
md_damp¶
Type: Real
Description: damping parameter (fs) used to add force in Langevin method.
Default: 1.0
md_tolerance¶
Type: Real
Description: Tolerance for velocity rescaling. Velocities are rescaled if the current and target temperature differ more than
md_tolerance
(Kelvin).Default: 100.0
md_nraise¶
Type: Integer
Description:
Anderson: the “collision frequency” parameter is given as 1/
md_nraise
;Berendsen: the “rise time” parameter is given in units of the time step: tau =
md_nraise
*md_dt
, somd_dt
/tau = 1/md_nraise
;Rescale_v: every
md_nraise
steps the current temperature is rescaled to the target temperature;
Default: 1
DFT+U correction¶
These variables are used to control DFT+U correlated parameters
dft_plus_u¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, ABCUS will calculate plus U correction, which is especially important for correlated electron.
Default: 0
orbital_corr¶
Type: Integer
Description: \(l_1,l_2,l_3,\ldots\) for atom type 1,2,3 respectively.(usually 2 for d electrons and 3 for f electrons) .Specify which orbits need plus U correction for each atom. If set to -1, the correction would not be calculated for this atom.
Default: None
hubbard_u¶
Type: Real
Description: Hubbard Coulomb interaction parameter U(ev) in plus U correction, which should be specified for each atom unless Yukawa potential is used.
Note : since we only implemented the simplified scheme by Duradev, the ‘U’ here is actually Ueff which is given by hubbard U minus hund J.
Default: 0.0
yukawa_potential¶
Type: Boolean
Description: whether to use the local screen Coulomb potential method to calculate the values of U and J. If this is set to 1, hubbard_u does not need to be specified.
Default: 0
yukawa_lambda¶
Type: Real
Description: The screen length of Yukawa potential. Relevant if
yukawa_potential
is set to 1. If left to default, we will calculate the screen length as an average of the entire system. It’s better to stick to the default setting unless there is a very good reason.Default: calculated on the fly.
omc¶
Type: Integer
Description: The parameter controls what form of occupation matrix control we are using. If set to 0, then no occupation matrix control is performed, and the onsite density matrix will be calculated from wavefunctions in each SCF step. If set to 1, then the first SCF step will use an initial density matrix read from a file named
initial_onsite.dm
, but for later steps, the onsite density matrix will be updated. If set to 2, the same onsite density matrix frominitial_onsite.dm
will be used throughout the entire calculation.
Note : The easiest way to create
initial_onsite.dm
is to run a DFT+U calculation, look for a file namedonsite.dm
in the OUT.prefix directory, and make replacements there. The format of the file is rather straight-forward.
Default: 0
vdW correction¶
These variables are used to control vdW-corrected related parameters.
vdw_method¶
Type: String
Description: If set to d2 ,d3_0 or d3_bj, ABACUS will calculate corresponding vdW correction, which is DFT-D2, DFT-D3(0) or DFTD3(BJ) method. And this correction includes energy and forces.
none
means that no vdW-corrected method has been used.Default: none
vdw_s6¶
Type: Real
Description: This scale factor is to optimize the interaction energy deviations. For DFT-D2, it is found to be 0.75 (PBE), 1.2 (BLYP), 1.05 (B-P86), 1.0 (TPSS), and 1.05 (B3LYP). For DFT-D3, recommended values of this parameter with different DFT functionals can be found on the webpage. The default value of this parameter in ABACUS is set to be the recommended value for PBE.
Default: 0.75 if vdw_method is chosen to be d2; 1.0 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_0 or d3_bj
vdw_s8¶
Type: Real
Description: This scale factor is only relevant for D3(0) and D3(BJ) methods. Recommended values of this parameter with different DFT functionals can be found on the webpage. The default value of this parameter in ABACUS is set to be the recommended value for PBE.
Default: 0.722 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_0; 0.7875 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_bj
vdw_a1¶
Type: Real
Description: This damping function parameter is relevant for D3(0) and D3(BJ) methods. Recommended values of this parameter with different DFT functionals can be found on the webpage. The default value of this parameter in ABACUS is set to be the recommended value for PBE.
Default: 1.217 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_0; 0.4289 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_bj
vdw_a2¶
Type: Real
Description: This damping function parameter is only relevant for the DFT-D3(BJ) approach. Recommended values of this parameter with different DFT functionals can be found on the webpage. The default value of this parameter in ABACUS is set to be the recommended value for PBE.
Default: 1.0 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_0; 4.4407 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_bj
vdw_d¶
Type: Real
Description: The variable is to control the damping rate of damping function of DFT-D2.
Default: 20
vdw_abc¶
Type: Integer
Description: The variable is to control whether three-body terms are calculated for DFT-D3 approaches, including D3(0) and D3(BJ). If set to 1, ABACUS will calculate three-body term, otherwise, the three-body term is not included.
Default: 0
vdw_C6_file¶
Type: String
Description: This variable is relevant if the user wants to manually set the \(C_6\) parameters in D2 method. It gives the name of the file which contains the list of \(C_6\) parameters for each element.
If not set, ABACUS will use the default \(C_6\) Parameters stored in the program. The default values of \(C_6\) for elements 1_H up to 86_Rn can be found by searching for
C6_default
in the source code. The unit is Jnm6/mol.Otherwise, if user wants to manually set the \(C_6\) Parameters, they should provide a file containing the \(C_6\) parameters to be used. An example is given by:
H 0.1 Si 9.0
Namely, each line contains the element name and the corresponding \(C_6\) parameter.
Default: default
vdw_C6_unit¶
Type: String
Description: This variable is relevant if the user wants to manually set the \(C_6\) parameters in D2 method. It specified the unit of the supplied \(C_6\) parameters. Allowed values are:
Jnm6/mol
(meaning J·nm^{6}/mol) andeVA
(meaning eV·Angstrom)Default: Jnm6/mol
vdw_R0_file¶
Type: String
Description: This variable is relevant if the user wants to manually set the \(R_0\) parameters in D2 method. If not set, ABACUS will use the default \(C_6\) Parameters stored in the program. The default values of \(C_6\) for elements 1_H up to 86_Rn can be found by searching for
R0_default
in the source code. The unit is Angstrom.Otherwise, if the user wants to manually set the \(C_6\) Parameters, they should provide a file containing the \(C_6\) parameters to be used. An example is given by:
Li 1.0 Cl 2.0
Namely, each line contains the element name and the corresponding \(R_0\) parameter.
Default: default
vdw_R0_unit¶
Type: String
Description: This variable is relevant if the user wants to manually set the \(R_0\) parameters in D2 method. It specified the unit of the supplied \(C_6\) parameters. Allowed values are:
A
(meaning Angstrom) andBohr
.Default: A
vdw_cutoff_type¶
Type: String
Description: When applying Van-der-Waals correction in periodic systems, a cutoff radius needs to be supplied to avoid infinite summation. In ABACUS, we restrict the range of correction to a supercell centered around the unit cell at origin.
In ABACUS, we provide two ways to determine the extent of the supercell.
When
vdw_cutoff_type
is set toradius
, the supercell is chosen such that it is contained in a sphere centered at the origin. The radius of the sphere is specified byvdw_cutoff_radius
.When
vdw_cutoff_type
is set toperiod
, the extent of the supercell is specified explicitly using keywordvdw_cutoff_period
.Default: radius
vdw_cutoff_radius¶
Type: Real
Description: If
vdw_cutoff_type
is set toradius
, this variable specifies the radius of the cutoff sphere. For DFT-D2, the default value is 56.6918, while for DFT-D3, the default value is 95.Default: 56.6918 if vdw_method is chosen to be d2; 95 if vdw_method is chosen to be d3_0 or d3_bj
vdw_radius_unit¶
Type: String
Description: If
vdw_cutoff_type
is set toradius
, this variable specifies the unit ofvdw_cutoff_radius
. Two values are allowed:A
(meaning Angstrom) andBohr
.Default: Bohr
vdw_cutoff_period¶
Type: Integer Integer Integer
Description: If vdw_cutoff_type is set to
period
, the three integers supplied here will explicitly specify the extent of the supercell in the directions of the three basis lattice vectors.Default: 3 3 3
vdw_cn_thr¶
Type: Real
Description: Only relevant for D3 correction. The cutoff radius when calculating coordination numbers.
Default: 40
vdw_cn_thr_unit¶
Type: String
Description: Unit of the coordination number cutoff. Two values are allowed:
A
(meaning Angstrom) andBohr
.Default: Bohr
Berry phase and wannier90 interface¶
These variables are used to control berry phase and wannier90 interface parameters.
berry_phase¶
Type: Boolean
Description: 1, calculate berry phase; 0, not calculate berry phase.
Default: 0
gdir¶
Type: Integer
Description:
1: calculate the polarization in the direction of the lattice vector a_1 that is defined in STRU file.
2: calculate the polarization in the direction of the lattice vector a_2 that is defined in STRU file.
3: calculate the polarization in the direction of the lattice vector a_3 that is defined in STRU file.
Default: 3
towannier90¶
Type: Integer
Description: 1, generate files for wannier90 code; 0, no generate.
Default: 0
nnkpfile¶
Type: String
Description: the file name when you run “wannier90 -pp …”.
Default: seedname.nnkp
wannier_spin¶
Type: String
Description: If nspin is set to 2,
up: calculate spin up for wannier function.
down: calculate spin down for wannier function.
Default: up
TDDFT: time dependent density functional theory¶
td_edm¶
Type: int
Description: the method to calculate the energy density matrix.
0: new method (use the original formula).
1: old method (use the formula for ground state).
Default: 0
td_print_eij¶
Type: double
Description: print the Eij(<\psi_i|H|\psi_j>) elements which are larger than td_print_eij. if td_print_eij <0, don’t print Eij
Default: -1
td_force_dt¶
Type: Real
Description: Time-dependent evolution force changes time step. (fs)
Default: 0.02
td_vext¶
Type: Integer
Description:
1: add a laser material interaction (extern laser field).
0: no extern laser field.
Default: 0
td_vext_dire¶
Type: Integer
Description:
1: the direction of external light field is along x axis.
2: the direction of external light field is along y axis.
3: the direction of external light field is along z axis.
Default: 1
td_stype¶
Type: Integer
Description: type of electric field in space domain
0: length gauge.
1: velocity gauge.
Default: 0
td_ttype¶
Type: Integer
Description: type of electric field in time domain
0: Gaussian type function.
1: Trapezoid function.
2: Trigonometric function.
3: Heaviside function.
4: HHG function.
Default: 0
td_tstart¶
Type: Integer
Description: nubmer of step where electric field start
Default: 1
td_tend¶
Type: Integer
Description: nubmer of step where electric field end
Default: 100
td_lcut1¶
Type: Double
Description: cut1 of interval in length gauge E = E0 , cut1<x<cut2 E = -E0/(cut1+1-cut2) , x<cut1 or cut2<x<1
Default: 0.05
td_lcut2¶
Type: Double
Description: cut2 of interval in length gauge
Default: 0.05
td_gauss_freq¶
Type: Double
Description: frequency of Gauss type elctric field (fs^-1) ampcos(2pif(t-t0)+phase)exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 22.13
td_gauss_phase¶
Type: Double
Description: phase of Gauss type elctric field
ampcos(2pif(t-t0)+phase)exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)Default: 0.0
td_gauss_sigma¶
Type: Double
Description: sigma of Gauss type elctric field (fs) ampcos(2pif(t-t0)+phase)exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 30.0
td_gauss_t0¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of time center of Gauss type elctric field
ampcos(2pif(t-t0)+phase)exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)Default: 100
td_gauss_amp¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude of Gauss type elctric field (V/A) ampcos(2pif(t-t0)+phase)exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 0.25
td_trape_freq¶
Type: Double
Description: frequency of Trapezoid type elctric field (fs^-1) E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3
Default: 1.60
td_trape_phase¶
Type: Double
Description: phase of Trapezoid type elctric field
E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3Default: 0.0
td_trape_t1¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of time interval 1 of Trapezoid type elctric field
E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3Default: 1875
td_trape_t2¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of time interval 2 of Trapezoid type elctric field
E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3Default: 5625
td_trape_t3¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of time interval 3 of Trapezoid type elctric field
E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3Default: 7500
td_trape_amp¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude of Trapezoid type elctric field (V/A) E = ampcos(2pift+phase) t/t1 , t<t1 E = ampcos(2pift+phase) , t1<t<t2 E = ampcos(2pif*t+phase) (1-(t-t2)/(t3-t2)) , t2<t<t3 E = 0 , t>t3
Default: 2.74
td_trigo_freq1¶
Type: Double
Description: frequence 1 of Trigonometric type elctric field (fs^-1) ampcos(2pif1t+phase1)sin(2pif2t+phase2)^2
Default: 1.164656
td_trigo_freq2¶
Type: Double
Description: frequence 2 of Trigonometric type elctric field (fs^-1) ampcos(2pif1t+phase1)sin(2pif2t+phase2)^2
Default: 0.029116
td_trigo_phase1¶
Type: Double
Description: phase 1 of Trigonometric type elctric field
ampcos(2pif1t+phase1)sin(2pif2t+phase2)^2Default: 0.0
td_trigo_phase2¶
Type: Double
Description: phase 2 of Trigonometric type elctric field
ampcos(2pif1t+phase1)sin(2pif2t+phase2)^2Default: 0.0
td_trigo_amp¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude of Trigonometric type elctric field (V/A) ampcos(2pif1t+phase1)sin(2pif2t+phase2)^2
Default: 2.74
td_heavi_t0¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of switch time of Heaviside type elctric field E = amp , t<t0 E = 0.0 , t>t0
Default: 100
td_heavi_amp¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude of Heaviside type elctric field (V/A) E = amp , t<t0 E = 0.0 , t>t0
Default: 2.74
td_hhg_amp1¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude 1 of HHG type elctric field (V/A) E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 2.74
td_hhg_amp2¶
Type: Double
Description: amplitude 2 of HHG type elctric field (V/A) E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 2.74
td_hhg_freq1¶
Type: Double
Description: frequency 1 of HHG type elctric field (fs^-1) E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 1.164656
td_hhg_freq2¶
Type: Double
Description: frequency 2 of HHG type elctric field (fs^-1) E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 0.029116
td_hhg_phase2¶
Type: Double
Description: phase 2 of HHG type elctric field E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 0.0
td_hhg_phase2¶
Type: Double
Description: phase 2 of HHG type elctric field E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 0.0
td_hhg_t0¶
Type: Double
Description: step number of time center of HHG type elctric field E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 700
td_hhg_sigma¶
Type: Double
Description: sigma of HHG type elctric field (fs) E = (amp1cos(2pif1(t-t0)+phase1)+amp2cos(2pif2(t-t0)+phase2))exp(-(t-t0)^2/2sigma^2)
Default: 30
out_dipole¶
Type: Integer
Description:
1: Output dipole.
0: do not Output dipole.
Default: 0
ocp¶
Type: Boolean
Description: choose whether calculating constrained DFT or not.
For PW and LCAO codes. if set to 1, occupations of bands will be setting of “ocp_set”.
For TDDFT in LCAO codes. if set to 1, occupations will be constrained since second ionic step.
For OFDFT, this feature can’t be used.
Default:0
ocp_set¶
Type: string
Description: If ocp is true, the ocp_set is a string to set the number of occupancy, like 1 10 * 1 0 1 representing the 13 band occupancy, 12th band occupancy 0 and the rest 1, the code is parsing this string into an array through a regular expression.
Default: none
td_val_elec_01¶
Type: Integer
Description: Only useful when calculating the dipole. Specifies the number of valence electron associated with the first element.
Default: 1.0
td_val_elec_02¶
Type: Integer
Description: Only useful when calculating the dipole. Specifies the number of valence electron associated with the second element.
Default: 1.0
td_val_elec_03¶
Type: Integer
Description: Only useful when calculating the dipole. Specifies the number of valence electron associated with the third element.
Default: 1.0
Variables useful for debugging¶
nurse¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, the Hamiltonian matrix and S matrix in each iteration will be written in output.
Default: 0
t_in_h¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 0, then kinetic term will not be included in obtaining the Hamiltonian.
Default: 1
vl_in_h¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 0, then local pseudopotential term will not be included in obtaining the Hamiltonian.
Default: 1
vnl_in_h¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 0, then non-local pseudopotential term will not be included in obtaining the Hamiltonian.
Default: 1
vh_in_h¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 0, then Hartree potential term will not be included in obtaining the Hamiltonian.
Default: 1
vion_in_h¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 0, then local ionic potential term will not be included in obtaining the Hamiltonian.
Default: 1
test_force¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, then detailed components in forces will be written to output.
Default: 0
test_stress¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, then detailed components in stress will be written to output.
Default: 0
colour¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, output to terminal will have some color.
Default: 0
test_skip_ewald¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, then ewald energy will not be calculated.
Default: 0
Electronic conductivities¶
Frequency-dependent electronic conductivities can be calculated with Kubo-Greenwood formula[Phys. Rev. B 83, 235120 (2011)].
Onsager coefficiencies:
\(L_{mn}(\omega)=(-1)^{m+n}\frac{2\pi e^2\hbar^2}{3m_e^2\omega\Omega}\)
\(\times\sum_{ij\alpha\mathbf{k}}W(\mathbf{k})\left(\frac{\epsilon_{i\mathbf{k}}+\epsilon_{j\mathbf{k}}}{2}-\mu\right)^{m+n-2} \times |\langle\Psi_{i\mathbf{k}}|\nabla_\alpha|\Psi_{j\mathbf{k}}\rangle|^2\)
\(\times[f(\epsilon_{i\mathbf{k}})-f(\epsilon_{j\mathbf{k}})]\delta(\epsilon_{j\mathbf{k}}-\epsilon_{i\mathbf{k}}-\hbar\omega).\)
They can also be computed by \(j\)-\(j\) correlation function.
\(L_{mn}=\frac{2e^{m+n-2}}{3\Omega\hbar\omega}\Im[\tilde{C}_{mn}(\omega)]\)
\(\tilde{C}_{mn}=\int_0^\infty C_{mn}(t)e^{-i\omega t}e^{-\frac{1}{2}(\Delta E)^2t^2}dt\)
\(C_{mn}(t)=-2\theta(t)\Im\left\{Tr\left[\sqrt{\hat f}\hat{j}_m(1-\hat{f})e^{i\frac{\hat{H}}{\hbar}t}\hat{j}_ne^{-i\frac{\hat{H}}{\hbar}t}\sqrt{\hat f}\right]\right\}\),
where \(j_1\) is electric flux and \(j_2\) is thermal flux.
Frequency-dependent electric conductivities: \(\sigma(\omega)=L_{11}(\omega)\).
Frequency-dependent thermal conductivities: \(\kappa(\omega)=\frac{1}{e^2T}\left(L_{22}-\frac{L_{12}^2}{L_{11}}\right)\).
DC electric conductivities: \(\sigma = \lim_{\omega\to 0}\sigma(\omega)\).
Thermal conductivities: \(\kappa = \lim_{\omega\to 0}\kappa(\omega)\).
cal_cond¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, electronic conductivities will be calculated. Only supported in calculations of SDFT and KSDFT_PW.
Default: 0
cond_nche¶
Type: Integer
Description: Chebyshev expansion orders for stochastic Kubo Greenwood. Only used when the calculation is SDFT.
Default: 20
cond_dw¶
Type: Real
Description: Frequency interval (\(d\omega\)) for frequency-dependent conductivities. The unit is eV.
Default: 0.1
cond_wcut¶
Type: Real
Description: Cutoff frequency for frequency-dependent conductivities. The unit is eV.
Default: 10.0
cond_wenlarge¶
Type: Integer
Description: Control the t interval: dt = \(\frac{\pi}{\omega_{cut}\times\omega enlarge}\)
Default: 10
cond_fwhm¶
Type: Integer
Description: We use gaussian functions to approximate \(\delta(E)\approx \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\Delta E}e^{-\frac{E^2}{2{\Delta E}^2}}\). FWHM for conductivities, \(FWHM=2*\sqrt{2\ln2}\cdot \Delta E\). The unit is eV.
Default: 0.3
cond_nonlocal¶
Type: Boolean
Description: Conductivities need to calculate velocity matrix \(\bra{\psi_i}\hat{v}\ket{\psi_j}\) and \(m\hat{v}=\hat{p}+\frac{im}{\hbar}[\hat{V}_{NL},\hat{r}]\). If
cond_nonlocal
is false, \(m\hat{v}\approx\hat{p}\).Default: True
Implicit solvation model¶
These variables are used to control the usage of implicit solvation model. This approach treats the solvent as a continuous medium instead of individual “explicit” solvent molecules, which means that the solute embedded in an implicit solvent and the average over the solvent degrees of freedom becomes implicit in the properties of the solvent bath.
imp_sol¶
Type: Boolean
Description: If set to 1, an implicit solvation correction is considered.
Default: 0
eb_k¶
Type: Real
Description: The relative permittivity of the bulk solvent, 80 for water. Used only if
imp_sol
== true.Default: 80
tau¶
Type: Real
Description: The effective surface tension parameter, which describes the cavitation, the dispersion, and the repulsion interaction between the solute and the solvent that are not captured by the electrostatic terms. The unit is \(Ry/Bohr^{2}\).
Default: 1.0798e-05
sigma_k¶
Type: Real
Description: We assume a diffuse cavity that is implicitly determined by the electronic structure of the solute.
sigma_k
is the parameter that describes the width of the diffuse cavity.Default: 0.6
nc_k¶
Type: Real
Description: It determines at what value of the electron density the dielectric cavity forms. The unit is \(Bohr^{-3}\).
Default: 0.00037