! E10: FeO in the rocksalt structure with AFM-II order ! (ferromagnetic (111) planes with alternating sign). ! The magnetic unit cell is rhombohedral: 2 Fe + 2 O, volume = 0.5 a^3. ! THE POINT of this run: the AFM order converges beautifully, and GGA ! still predicts a metal. Experiment says insulator, gap ~2.4 eV. &CONTROL calculation = 'scf' prefix = 'FeO' outdir = './tmp/' pseudo_dir = './pseudo/' verbosity = 'high' ! also prints the ns matrices once U is on (E11) tprnfor = .true. tstress = .true. / &SYSTEM ibrav = 0 ! cell given explicitly below celldm(1) = 8.18 ! cubic a in bohr (= 4.33 Angstrom); scales CELL_PARAMETERS (alat) nat = 4 ntyp = 3 ! Fe1, Fe2, O: the label split that makes AFM possible ecutwfc = 70 ecutrho = 700 ! the 10x Fe rule again occupations = 'smearing' ! the GGA ground state is (wrongly) metallic, so smear smearing = 'mv' degauss = 0.01 nspin = 2 starting_magnetization(1) = 0.6 ! Fe1 sublattice: up starting_magnetization(2) = -0.6 ! Fe2 sublattice: down -> AFM seed starting_magnetization(3) = 0.0 ! O: no seed / &ELECTRONS conv_thr = 1.0d-8 mixing_beta = 0.2 ! touchy magnetic oxide: mix gently mixing_mode = 'local-TF' electron_maxstep = 300 / ! the SAME pseudopotential file under two labels: without this split QE ! treats the two Fe as symmetry-equivalent and no AFM state can form ATOMIC_SPECIES Fe1 55.845 Fe.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF Fe2 55.845 Fe.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF O 15.999 O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF ! rhombohedral doubling of the fcc cell along [111], in units of alat: ! these three vectors hold two rocksalt formula units, so that the two Fe ! (111) planes can carry opposite spins. det = 0.5 -> volume 0.5 a^3. CELL_PARAMETERS (alat) 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 0.5 ! fractional coordinates: Fe at 0 and 1/2 along the cell diagonal are the ! two oppositely magnetized (111) planes; O sits between them ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal) Fe1 0.00 0.00 0.00 Fe2 0.50 0.50 0.50 O 0.25 0.25 0.25 O 0.75 0.75 0.75 K_POINTS (automatic) 6 6 6 0 0 0