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LEPSILON with gamma point VASP

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:34 pm
by tholme
Is the gamma point only version of VASP supposed to be able to calculate the dielectric properties with LEPSILON = .TRUE. ? I get an error

My output looks like this:

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DAV:  47    -0.456858097619E+03   -0.11918E-05    0.64768E-07   520   0.243E-04    0.872E-05
DAV:  48    -0.456858098563E+03   -0.94424E-06    0.65805E-07   520   0.183E-04
   1 F= -.45685810E+03 E0= -.45532004E+03  d E =-.307611E+01
 Linear response reoptimize wavefunctions to high precision
DAV:   1    -0.456858098944E+03   -0.38155E-06    0.66497E-07   584   0.139E-04
DAV:   2    -0.456858098946E+03   -0.12224E-08    0.66872E-07   496   0.897E-05
DAV:   3    -0.456858098945E+03    0.64028E-09    0.67072E-07   496   0.652E-05
 Linear response G [H, r] |phi>, progress :
  Direction:   1
       N       E                     dE             d eps       ncg     rms
 internal error in LRF_COMMUTATOR: for the gamma-point code, LI must be set to .FALSE.

LEPSILON with gamma point VASP

Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:05 pm
by admin
as written in the error statement: LI=.True. causes the gamma-only
(real) version to stop immediately.
please either set LI to false explicitely, or use the standard version of vasp

LEPSILON with gamma point VASP

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:32 pm
by tholme
If I set LI=.FALSE. in my INCAR file, I get the same error. Apparently the code does not read the value LI from INCAR ? So must we use the standard version of VASP? This can be inconvenient since LEPSILON calculations are quite time consuming.

Thanks for any input you have.

LEPSILON with gamma point VASP

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 8:27 am
by admin
LI is not read from INCAR, you have to change this statement in the
source-code and re-compile