[DFTB-Plus-User] TDDFTB excitation window and OS filter

[Benjamin Hourahine]

Hello Fahri,

probably the manual needs some clarification. The energy window sets the minimum energy range for states to be included, the dipole window selects from all of the remaining unused single particle transitions above that window.

Regards

Ben

On 25/10/2019 09:58, Fahri Alkan wrote:
Hello all,
I am using DFTB+ to calculate the absorption spectra for very large systems. For such systems, one often needs to employ energy window (EW) and oscillator strength (OS) filter approximations to reduce the size of one-particle transition space. However, I believe there is a bug in the code when you invoke both of these filters. For a test system (Ag55 cluster), SPX.DAT shows 58286 transitions without any filter. When I apply 10^-3 OS filter alone, this number reduces to 14260. When I apply 0.1 au EW alone (with 100 Nr of excitations), one-particle transition space reduces to only 1759. If I use them together, what I expect reading from the manual is that one-particle transition space should reduce from 1759 to further some number as a result of OS filter. However, SPX.DAT shows 15549 excitations! (Even larger than the both numbers I get from filters alone). I am using the compiled binary version of DFTB-19.1. I haven't encounter any other problems with the program. My excitation block in the input is as follows:
ExcitedState = Casida {
 NrOfExcitations=100
 Symmetry=singlet
 WriteTransitions=no
 WriteSPTransitions=yes
 WriteMulliken=no
 WriteCoefficients=no
 WriteEigenvectors=no
 WriteTransitionDipole=no
 OscillatorWindow = 0.00100000000000000
 EnergyWindow = 0.10000000000000000
}
Is this a bug? Any comments on this will be appropriated greatly.
Thanks

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