[Octopus-users] laser output file has zero output/TDLasers or TDExternalFields

Jeff Houze redstarchs at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 12 17:16:50 WEST 2009


If you look at migrating to octopus 3.0 link of main wiki page.





 TDLasers was replaced by TDExternalFields.



I think that TDExternalFields doesn't do anything with version 2.1.0

Thus the zeros in laser file.

I don't know why you are seeing something happing to charge though?



Documentation for 2.1.0 is accessible http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/doc/2.1.0/html/vars.php


TDLasers http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/doc/2.1.0/html/vars/Time_Dependent.html#TDLasers





> From: listemily at eml.cc
> To: alberto.castro at tddft.org
> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:20:42 -0400
> CC: octopus-users at tddft.org
> Subject: Re: [Octopus-users] laser output file has zero output/TDLasers or TDExternalFields
> 
> I have not yet figured out why my td.general/laser file has zeros for
> most of the fields, and I'm hoping somebody can suggest why.  I'm using
> octopus version 2.1.0.  I've tried both "TDExternalField" and
> "TDExternalFields", and an amplitude of 0.1 and 1, as seen in the lines
> from my inp files below.  I'm seeing a change in my density, but its
> pretty small, so it might be that my system isn't feeling a field?  I'm
> currently doing a run with an amplitude of 10, and it doesn't look any
> different for the first 20 iterations.
> 
> ______________________________
> omega = 0.173 # This is the largest peak from run 68358, delta response.
> amplitude = 1 # 1 Hartree / (a_0^2 atomic_time) = 6.4364086e+15 W / cm^2
> 
> %TDExternalFields
>   electric_field | 0 | 1 | 0 | omega | "continuous_wave"
> %
> 
> %TDFunctions
>  "continuous_wave" | tdf_cw | amplitude
> %
> _______________________________
> omega = 0.179 
> amplitude = 0.1 # 1 Hartree / (a_0^2 atomic_time) = 6.4364086e+15 W /
> cm^2
> 
> %TDExternalField
>   electric_field | 1 | 0 | 0 | omega | "continuous_wave"
> %
> 
> %TDFunctions
>  "continuous_wave" | tdf_cw | amplitude
> %
> _______________________________
> 
> My file td.general/laser has zero for all fields except time and
> iteration number, for 8000 iterations, as would be extrapolated from the
> first six lines below.
> _______________________________
> #################################################################################
> HEADER
> # dt =   0.100000000000E+00 [hbar/H]
> # Iter             t                  E(1)                E(2)          
>      E(3)                A(1)                A(2)                A(3)
> #[Iter n.]      [hbar/H]            [H / b]             [H / b]         
>    [H / b]              [1/b]               [1/b]               [1/b]
> ################################################################################
>       0  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
> 0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
> 0.000000000000e+00
>        1  1.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
>        2  2.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
>        3  3.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
>        4  4.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
>        5  5.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
>        6  6.000000000000e-01  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00  0.000000000000e+00 
>        0.000000000000e+00
> _______________________________
> 
> 
> If anybody could suggest what I'm doing wrong, I'd greatly appreciate
> it.
> 
> Thanks, Emily
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Emily" <listemily at eml.cc>
> To: " Alberto Castro" <alberto.castro at tddft.org>
> Cc: "octopus users group" <octopus-users at tddft.org>
> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:46:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Octopus-users] laser output file has zero output/TDLasers
> or TDExternalFields
> 
> p.s. I'm using octopus version 2.1.0.  Is that an old version that has a
> bug around this?
> 
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Emily" <listemily at eml.cc>
> To: "Alberto Castro" <alberto.castro at tddft.org>
> Cc: "octopus users group" <octopus-users at tddft.org>
> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:43:29 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Octopus-users] laser output file has zero output/TDLasers
> or TDExternalFields
> 
> Hi Alberto, Jeff & others,
> 
> Yes, I believe I'm using TDExternalField in the same manner as Jeff's
> example, and I'm definitely getting zeros in my lasers file.  Here are
> the relevant lines from my inp file:
> 
> omega = 0.173 
> amplitude = 0.1
> 
> %TDExternalField
>  electric_field | 0 | 1 | 0 | omega | "continuous_wave"
> %
> 
> %TDFunctions
>  "continuous_wave" | tdf_cw | amplitude
> %
> 
> Its clearly doing something to the charge distribution.
> 
> Any idea what's going wrong?
> 
> Thanks very much!
> Emily
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Alberto Castro" <alberto.castro at tddft.org>
> To: "Emily" <listemily at eml.cc>
> Cc: "octopus users group" <octopus-users at tddft.org>
> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:51:23 +0200 (CEST)
> Subject: Re: [Octopus-users] laser output file has zero output/TDLasers
> or TDExternalFields
> 
> 
> Hi Emily,
> 
> TDLasers is obsolete, so it will only work in older version. The pair
> "TDExternalFields" and "TDFunctions" is the correct procedure
> now. Jeff has sent a good example.
> 
> If you are still getting zeroes, please send you input options to the
> list so that somebody can figure out what's wrong.
> 
> And thanks for the hint about google...
> 
> Cheers, Alberto.
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Emily wrote:
> 
> > Hello Octopus Users,
> >
> > I'm trying to put an oscillating electric field on my system.  I used
> > the block TDExternalFields, and the program ran and the charge density
> > definitely looked different than with no field, so something happenned.
> > But I also used TDOutput = lasers, and got a file td.general/laser that
> > shows zeros in every field except the time and iteration number.  So I
> > googled the users group archive and found somebody else who's laser
> > fields were all zero, and it was recommended that they use TDLasers
> > instead of TDExternalFields.  But apparently the syntax has changed
> > between these two variables, and I couldn't find any documentation for
> > how to use the obsolete variable TDLasers.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me how to make TDExternalFields and/or TDOutput to work
> > correctly to print out the laser field?
> >
> > Or, if that's not possible, can somebody tell me how to use the obsolete
> > variable TDLasers?
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Emily
> >
> > p.s.  Perhaps not everybody has yet realized this, but you can do a
> > google search such as
> > TDLasers  site:tddft.org
> > and since the user group archives are available in this domain it will
> > search the archives, tutorial, manual and anything else on the site all
> > at once.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Octopus-users at tddft.org
> > http://www.tddft.org/mailman/listinfo/octopus-users
> >
> 
> ======================================================================
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> 
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> Arnimallee, 14, Berlin 14195 (Deutschland)
> 
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