[DFTB-Plus-User] Bader Charge Analysis

Ozan Dernek ozandernek at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 15:10:39 CEST 2015


Alright, thanks for your great attitude again, 

Regards
Ozan

25 Ağu 2015 tarihinde 16:07 saatinde, Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala <sharmajncasr at gmail.com> şunları yazdı:

> Firstly, it is best to post the things related to QE on QE forum. Experts there can correct, if your input file is wrong.
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> Related to your question: As far as I can see, you are getting a charge density file only (Not charge density difference). Then there will not be any negative values. 
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Ozan Dernek <ozandernek at gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess I am missing a big part here. Starting form the very beginning:
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>  -After executing a relax calculation in Quantum Espresso, i proceeded with partial density of states calculation.  
>  - Then to obtain the .cube file, I executed the pp.x calculation as below;
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> 			&inputpp
>    			  prefix='ca',
>  			  outdir='tmp-ngr-chexyl',
> 			  filplot='ngr-chexyl',
> 			  plot_num=0,
>  			/
> 			&plot
>    			  iflag=3,
>    			  output_format=6,             
>    			  fileout='charge-ngr-chexyl.cube',
> 			/
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>   - The pp.x calculation returned the files ACF.dat, AVF.dat, BCF.dat and charge.cube files.
>   - Then I load the .cube file to VMD. 
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> If there should be another step before using VMD, I am not aware of that.
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> PS: The problem here is there is no one using VM in my department, and I could not get a satisfying answer from the VMD-L mailing list. I genuinely appreciate your effort.
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> Regards,
> Ozan
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> 25 Ağu 2015 tarihinde 15:35 saatinde, Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala <sharmajncasr at gmail.com> şunları yazdı:
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>> Could you please just tell me the steps what you have done to get charge difference plots (I just need commands, no need of description) before using vmd?
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>> ********************************************************
>> Chaitanya Sharma,
>> Prof. Pati's group,
>> Chemistry and Physics Materials unit,
>> JNCASR, BANGLORE,
>> Lab:: (080-2208) 2581, 2809
>> https://sites.google.com/site/sharmasrkcyamijala/
>> *********************************************************
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>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Ozan Dernek <ozandernek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have tried it, and after receiving your mail tried once more, but it gives nothing for the negative isovalue since the range starts with a positive value.  
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>> Regards Ozan
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>> 25 Ağu 2015 tarihinde 14:41 saatinde, Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala <sharmajncasr at gmail.com> şunları yazdı:
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>>> You need to change one of the Iso-surface value to be negative. If you are using command line, see the below example:
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>>> mol selection all
>>> mol material Opaque
>>> mol addrep 0
>>> mol modstyle 1 0 Isosurface 0.000400 0 0 1 1 1         # positive value for Isosurface
>>> mol modmaterial 1 0 AOChalky
>>> mol modcolor 1 0 ColorID 31
>>> color change rgb 31 0.840000 0.420000 0.110000
>>> 
>>> mol selection all
>>> mol material AOChalky
>>> mol addrep 0
>>> mol modstyle 2 0 Isosurface -0.000400 0 0 1 1 1      # negative value for Isosurface
>>> mol modcolor 2 0 ColorID 23
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>>> HTH,
>>> Sharma.
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>>> ********************************************************
>>> Chaitanya Sharma,
>>> Prof. Pati's group,
>>> Chemistry and Physics Materials unit,
>>> JNCASR, BANGLORE,
>>> Lab:: (080-2208) 2581, 2809
>>> https://sites.google.com/site/sharmasrkcyamijala/
>>> *********************************************************
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>>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Ozan Dernek <ozandernek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi, 
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>>> First of all, I would like to plot the difference in charge densities, but I can only see positive values . As you explained in the website, I first create a CPK rep, then make two isosurfaces, which only have positive isovalues. Is it because the code I am using to make the bader charge analysis, or should I do something via VMD ?
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>>> Thank you for your attention, 
>>> Regards, 
>>> Ozan Dernek
>>> 22 Ağu 2015 tarihinde 07:54 saatinde, Sharma SRK Chaitanya Yamijala <sharmajncasr at gmail.com> şunları yazdı:
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>>>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Ozan Dernek <ozandernek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> file from the structures that I am working on , the minimum isovalue is always bigger than zero.
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>>>> Dear Ozan,
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>>>> As you understood, if you want to plot charge density then it will be (should be) with all positive values. If you are plotting MOs or spin-densities or "difference in charge densities" etc. then you will be able to see a negative value in cube file. So, if you just would like to see the charge density on an atom, I guess, you should get all positive values. 
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>>>> Also, though I am not sure, something like taking the difference between "full system's charge-density" and the "sum of charge-densities of all atoms (except for the one where you would like to see the charge)" may give you some hints about charge transfer from/to the atom of your interest (if this is what you are looking for!).
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>>>> HTH,
>>>> Sharma.
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>>>> P.S.: If you are dealing with systems with high charge fluctuations and if you haven't done the calculations with DFTB3, then my suggestion would be to stick to DFTB3 than SCC-DFTB. I guess you might have already started with DFTB3.
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>>>> ********************************************************
>>>> Chaitanya Sharma,
>>>> Prof. Pati's group,
>>>> Chemistry and Physics Materials unit,
>>>> JNCASR, BANGLORE,
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>>>> https://sites.google.com/site/sharmasrkcyamijala/
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