class LRDMC_ext_workflow

This class manages the workflow of LRDMC calculations with extrapolation of lattice parameter to zero.

Module usage

from turboworkflows.workflow_lrdmc_ext import LRDMC_ext_workflow

Constructor arguments

job parameters

argument

type

default value

description

server_machine_name

str

localhost

name of the server machine for job submission.

queue_label

str

(None)

queue label for job submission.

mpi

bool

False

use MPI parallelization.

version

str

stable

version of packages to use.

sleep_time

int

1800

interval of job status check in seconds.

LRDMC extrapolation parameters

argument

type

default value

description

lrdmc_input_files

list

[fort.10, pseudo.dat]

list of input files for LRDMC.

lrdmc_rerun

bool

False

if True, force rerun even if pickle file exists.

lrdmc_max_continuation

int

2

maximum number of continuation runs per alat.

lrdmc_target_error_bar

float

2.0e-5

target error bar in Ha.

lrdmc_trial_steps

int

150

number of trial steps for initial run.

lrdmc_bin_block

int

10

binning length.

lrdmc_warmupblocks

int

5

number of warmup blocks to discard.

lrdmc_correcting_factor

int

10

correcting factor for error estimation.

lrdmc_trial_etry

float

0.0

trial energy (Ha)

lrdmc_alat_list

list

[-0.20, -0.30, -0.40]

list of alat values for extrapolation. (Bohr)

lrdmc_time_branching

float

0.10

interval between two branching steps. (a.u.)

lrdmc_nonlocalmoves

str

dla

treatment of locality approximation, choose from tmove, dla, dlatm

lrdmc_num_walkers

int

-1

number of walkers, -1 (default) = the number of MPI processes

lrdmc_twist_average

float

False

flag for twist average

lrdmc_kpoints

list

[]

Monkhorst-Pack k-grids, [kx,ky,kz,nx,ny,nz], kx,ky,kz for grids, nx,ny,nz for shift=0, noshift=1.

lrdmc_force_calc_flag

bool

False

calculate forces.

lrdmc_pw_regularization

float

0.0

if it is > 0.0, the Pathak-Wager regularization is turned on.

lrdmc_maxtime

int

172000

maximum time (sec.)

degree_poly

int

2

degree of polynomial for extrapolation.