Band gap renormalization in diamond using one-shot method

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Task

Calculating the zero-point renormalization of the band gap in cubic diamond carbon.

Input

POSCAR

C_128_fcc
   1.00000000000000
    0.00000000   7.13397200   7.13397200
    7.13397200   0.00000000   7.13397200
    7.13397200   7.13397200   0.00000000
   C
  128
Direct
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   0.43750000   0.93750000   0.43750000
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KPOINTS

K-Points
 0
Gamma
 1  1  1
 0  0  0

INCAR

general:
 System = cd-C
 PREC = Accurate
 ALGO = FAST
 ISMEAR = 0 
 SIGMA = 0.1;
 IBRION = 6
 PHON_LMC = .TRUE.
 PHON_NSTRUCT = 0
 PHON_NTLIST = 1
 PHON_TLIST = 0.0

The tags with "PHON_" control the electron-phonon couplings (EPC). PHON_LMC enables electron-phonon coupling in the calculations using Monte Carlo sampling. By selecting PHON_NSTRUCT=0 a one-shot configuration (ZG configuration) is obtained. The tag PHON_NTLIST selects the number of temperatures for which the structure with the one shot calculation is obtained. This requires also the list of temperatures given by PHON_TLIST which have exact PHON_NTLIST number of elements.
IBRION=6 is selected to obtain the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the dynamical matrix at the Gamma point.

Calculation

This example will use a one-shot method, where only a single structure comprising the EPC is required for a given temperature.

The calculation consists of two steps:

Obtain new "distorted" POSCAR file which contains the EPC. This calculation also contains the band gap of the original structure.
Execute simple DFT calculation for the EPC structure to obtain the band gap.
Extract ZPR as the difference between the band gaps from the two calculations.

Step 1 obtain structure containing EPC

To run the calculation POSCAR.init needs to be copied to POSCAR and INCAR.init to INCAR.

Execute VASP.

Copy the OUTCAR file to OUTCAR.init. It will be later used for the band gap of the "undistorted" structure.

The new POSCAR file containing the configurations according to the electron-phonon couplings is given as POSCAR.T=0..

Step 2 calculate electronic levels of structure containing EPC

Copy the file POSCAR.T=0. to POSCAR.

Delete all the lines in the INCAR file related to EPC so that it looks like the following:

System = cd-C
PREC = Accurate
ALGO = FAST
ISMEAR = 0; SIGMA = 0.1;

Execute VASP.

Copy OUTCAR to OUTCAR.T=0.".

Step 3 extract ZPR

We extract the band gap renormalization as

$\Delta E_{\mathrm {rm} }=E_{\mathrm {EPC} }-E_{\mathrm {no} }$

where $E_{\mathrm {EPC} }$ and <math> E_{\mathrm{no}}> are the band gaps with and without EPC, respectively.

The band gaps are extracted from the previously saved files OUTCAR.init and OUTCAR.T=0. using the following script:

Click to show/extract_zpr_cd_carbon.sh

REDIRECT Extract zpr

To use the script please type:

bash extract_zpr_cd_carbon.sh

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