I CONSTRAINED M

I_CONSTRAINED_M = 1 | 2
Default: I_CONSTRAINED_M = none 

Description: I_CONSTRAINED_M switches on the constrained local moments approach.

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VASP offers the possibility to add a penalty contribution to the total energy expression (and consequently a penalty functional to the Hamiltonian) that drives the local magnetic moment (integral of the magnetization in a site centered sphere of radius r=RWIGS) into a direction given by the M_CONSTR-tag.

• I_CONSTRAINED_M=1: Constrain the direction of the magnetic moments.

The total energy is given by

$E=E_0+ \sum_I\lambda \left[ \vec{M}_I-\hat{M}^0_I \left( \hat{M}^0_I \cdot \vec{M_I}\right)\right]^2$

where E₀ is the usual DFT energy, and the second term on the right-hand-side represents the penalty. The sum is taken over all atomic sites I, $\hat{M}^0_I$ is the desired direction of the magnetic moment at site I (as specified using M_CONSTR), and $\vec{M}_I$ is the integrated magnetic moment inside a sphere Ω_I (the radius must be specified by means of RWIGS) around the position of atom I,

$\vec{M}_I=\int_{\Omega_I} \vec{m}(\mathbf{r}) F_I(|\mathbf{r}|) d\mathbf{r}$

where F_I(|r|) is a function of norm 1 inside Ω_I, that smoothly goes to zero towards the boundary of Ω_I.

The penalty term in the total energy introduces an additional potential inside the aforementioned spheres centered at the atomic sites I, given by

$V_I (\mathbf{r})=2\lambda \left[ \vec{M}_I-\hat{M}^0_I \left( \hat{M}^0_I \cdot \vec{M_I}\right)\right] \cdot \vec{\sigma} F_I(|\mathbf{r}|)$

where $\vec{\sigma}=(\sigma_x,\sigma_y,\sigma_z)$ are the Pauli spin-matrices.

• I_CONSTRAINED_M=2: Constrain the size and direction of the magnetic moments.

The total energy is given by

$E=E_0+ \sum_I\lambda \left( \vec{M}_I-\vec{M}^0_I \right)^2$

where $\vec{M}^0_I$ is the desired magnetic moment at site I (as specified using M_CONSTR).

The additional potential that arises from the penalty contribution to the total energy is given by

$V_I (\mathbf{r})=2\lambda \left( \vec{M}_I-\vec{M}^0_I \right)\cdot \vec{\sigma} F_I(|\mathbf{r}|)$

The weight λ, with which the penalty terms enter into the total energy expression and the Hamiltonian in the above is specified through the LAMBDA tag.

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When one uses the constrained moment approach, additional information pertaining to the effect of the constraints is written into the OSZICAR file:

 E_p =  0.36856E-07  lambda =  0.500E+02
<lVp>=  0.30680E-02
 DBL = -0.30680E-02
 ion        MW_int                 M_int
  1 -0.565  0.000  0.000   -0.770  0.000  0.000
  2  0.565  0.000  0.000    0.770  0.000  0.000
  3 -0.565  0.000  0.000   -0.770  0.000  0.000
  4  0.565  0.000  0.000    0.770  0.000  0.000
DAV:   8    -0.133293620177E+03    0.15284E-05   -0.29410E-08  4188   0.144E-03    0.119E-04

E_p is the contribution to the total energy arising from the penalty functional. Under M_int VASP lists the integrated magnetic moment at each atomic site. The column labeled MW_int shows the result of the integration of magnetization density which has been smoothed towards the boundary of the sphere. It is actually the smoothed integrated moment which enters in the penalty terms (the smoothing ensures that the total local potential remains continuous at the sphere boundary). One should look at the latter numbers to check whether enough of the magnetization density around each atomic site is contained within the integration sphere and increase RWIGS accordingly. What exactly constitutes "enough" in this context is hard to say. It is best to set RWIGS in such a manner that the integration spheres do not overlap and are otherwise as large as possible.

DAV:   9    -0.133293621087E+03   -0.91037E-06   -0.18419E-08  4188   0.104E-03
   1 F= -.13329362E+03 E0= -.13329362E+03  d E =0.000000E+00  mag=     0.0000     0.0000     0.0000

 E_p =  0.36600E-07  lambda =  0.500E+02
 ion             lambda*MW_perp
  1  -0.67580E-03  -0.12424E-22  -0.88276E-23
  2   0.67580E-03   0.14700E-22  -0.24744E-22
  3  -0.67790E-03  -0.82481E-23  -0.19834E-22
  4   0.67790E-03   0.15710E-23   0.34505E-22

Related Tags and Sections

M_CONSTR, LAMBDA, RWIGS, LNONCOLLINEAR

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