elk-2.3.22 -Lars Nordström, Francesco Cricchio and JKD added fixed tensor moment (FTM) calculations (experimental) -LN made changes to the mixer routine which makes restarts smoother -the Hamiltonian is now made real for systems with inversion symmetry; this was removed in the previous release because of a bug; the FV step is now up to four times faster -fixed problem with symmetry breaking of tetragonal systems during lattice optimisation pointed out by various users -further improved and stabilised lattice optimisation -fixed a long-standing bug related to electron-phonon coupling pointed out by Matthieu Verstraete and Ryotaro Arita -fixed a problem with electron-phonon coupling introduced in a previous version, discovered by user 'wuhuagumu' and Heung-Sik Kim -TDDFT reponse code for both charge and magnetism has been made faster and more memory efficient -creating a STOP file in the running directory now cleanly stops a structural optimisation run; as requested by James Mudd -problem with nested OpenMP has now been fixed -more OpenMP parallel loops have been added -extended the use of BLAS throughout the code -fixed bug which affected the running of task=120 -removed the 'frozencr' option for the moment because the core energy was incorrectly calculated; this will be restored in a later release -various optimisations and minor bug fixes elk-2.3.16 -DFT+U now works with multiple entries per atom; every mention of LDA+U has now changed to DFT+U to reflect the generality of the method, and to give it an air of respectibility; for example, the block 'lda+u' is now 'dft+u'; old input files will still work fine -greatly improved the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) calculations, thanks to suggestions by various users; the crystal is now rotated instead of the magnetisation direction -fractional atomic species can now be generated on the fly using the 'fspecies' block; see the example 'fractional-species'; note that the atomic mass is only an estimate in these species files; this is useful for the virtual crystal approximation (VCA) -spin-orbit coupling can now be used with strictly collinear calculations by using 'cmagz=.true.'; this will speed up the calculation considerably; use only when the system is genuinely collinear -unstable non-collinear GGA calculations can now be stabilised by setting 'ncgga=.true.' -improved the speed and stability of the lattice vector optimisation; thanks to forum discussions regarding BaTiO3 -added the lattice optimisation of BaTiO3 to the examples directory; thanks to David Tompsett -geometry optimisation should now work fine with MPI -added highly converged osmium example 'Os-convergence' thanks to a lengthy discussion on the forum started by Marcin Dulak; also increased the value of 'lmaxmat' for the 'highq' option thanks to Marcin's careful testing -Important: greatly improved the code setup and compilation thanks to suggestions by Marcin Dulak; all compiler options are now in the file 'elk/make.inc'; the Makefile in 'elk/src' no longer requires modification -new variable 'rotavec' available in elk.in; this is a rotation specified in axis-angle convention which allows the rotation of the crystal axes -thanks go to Rich Martin and collaborator Wen for useful testing and suggestions -improved the DFPT phonon calculations and added the example 'Nb-phonon-DFPT' -decreased the chance of accidentally triggering the convergence indicator in the self-consistent loop thanks to a suggestion from Markus Meinert -fixed problem with the routine 'nonlinopt', pointed out by user Sabrina and Koichi Kitahara -improved the OpenMP efficiency in parts by using '$OMP ATOMIC' instead of '$OMP CRITICAL' -changed the names of various internal subroutines; for example 'seceqnfv' is now 'eveqnfv' -thanks go to Igor Mazin, Konrad Bussmann and James Glasbrenner for some very useful improvments -fixed problem with species generation and MPI pointed out by Marcin Dulak -fixed problem with use of Fortran 'APPEND' flag thanks to user Alaska -updated the fundamental constants and conversion factors to CODATA 2008 recommended values -Important: updated code for compatibility with Libxc version 2.2.0; see the manual and note the change in compilation instructions -fixed problem with the routine 'energyfdu' which affected DFT+U calculations with 'inpdftu=4' (input of Yukawa screening length) -Important: temporarily switched of the conversion of the Hamiltonian to a real symmetric problem because of possible bug; the only effect of this is that the code is slower for systems with inversion symmetry; this will be fixed in the next release -minor bug fixes and optimisations elk-2.2.10 -fixed problem reported by Sonu Sharma and Michael Fechner with calculation of expectation values L, S and J -slightly improved the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) calculation -added new variable 'socscf' which scales the spin-orbit interaction term in the Hamiltonian; this allows calculation by interpolation of the MAE for cases where the MAE is small -added new variables to VARIABLES.OUT elk-2.2.9 -fixed problem with fixed spin moment (FSM) calculations pointed out by Jagdish Kumar -added new output file VARIABLES.OUT; this is for developers wanting to interface their codes to Elk; it contains most of the useful variables required for reading the Elk binary files; if you would like a variable added then just send me a mail; enabled when 'wrtvars' is set to .true. -minor cosmetic changes elk-2.2.8 -Important: fixed serious bug discovered by Jan Balluff and Markus Meinert which produced erroneous magnetic moments with GGA; this only affects version 2.2.5; sorry about that -even more substantial speed-ups for most parts of the code -fixed MPI problem with the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) routine reported by Konrad Bussmann and José A. Flores-Livas -minor bug fixes and improvements elk-2.2.5 -dramatic speed-up for most parts of the code thanks to some (fairly obvious) optimisations -greatly improved lattice vector optimisation -automatic determination of the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) with 'task=28' (experimental); see the example 'FeCo-MAE' -the variable 'nempty' is now a real number; see manual entry -magnitude of total magnetisation vector written to MOMENTM.OUT -improved the species files -made the linearisation energy search more reliable -reduced the annoying 'linearisation energy not found' warning elk-2.2.1 -added full structural optimisation; setting 'latvopt=1' performs unconstrained optimisation of the lattice vectors; 'latvopt=2' performs iso-volumetric optimisation; see the example 'MgB2-lattice-opt' -minor bug fixes and optimisations -all tests should now report 'Passed' elk-2.1.25 -fixed several problems with the previous (beta) release; thanks to Markus Meinert for the exhaustive checking -magnetic hyperfine fields are now correctly calculated thanks to MM -added missing items to the manual -added the example 'Si-phonon-DFPT' -thanks to Kari Ruotsalainen, Aleksay Golovchan and Vladimir Nazarov for pointing out bugs in 2.1.22 - now fixed -added estimation of direct gap to INFO.OUT; thanks to user Sean for the idea -this is the version that will be used for the Elk Turorial -see you in Lausanne! elk-2.1.22 (beta) -Important: this is a beta version and should not be used for production work; a production release will be made in a few weeks -Important: this version is not backwards compatible; calculations will have to be converged from scratch -density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) phonons now available; only for spin-unpolarised calculations at the moment; spin-polarisation will be added for the next release; use with task=205; still experimental and generates incorrect results for certain symmetries - we're still working on this; see the example 'Al-phonon-DFPT' -full frequency-dependent magnetic response function now available; works with non-collinear magnetism, etc.; use task=330; see example 'Ni-magnetic-response' -iterative diagonalisation greatly improved; now uses the method of P. Blaha, et al., J. Comp. Phys. 229, p453 (2010) -upgraded code to handle libxc version 2 -hybrid functionals should now work with libxc (experimental) -upgraded LAPACK to version 3.4.2 -block name dos changed to wplot; changed variable 'nwdos' to 'nwplot' -variable 'gmaxrpa' changed to 'gmaxrf'; this is the response function G-vector cut-off -BSE and TDDFT now faster, more accurate and memory efficient; thanks to M. Meinert for discussions -task 188 changed to 320 -reintroduced the variables 'lmaxinr' and 'fracinr'; this improves stability -lots of optimisations -added more MPI parallelism -various minor bug fixes -conduction state local-orbitals can now be switched on; use 'lorbcnd=.true.'; this can improve both ground-state and response function calculations; this is switched on automatically when 'highq=.true.' -most species files have been changed; mostly larger muffin-tin radii -Important: Markus Meinert suggested a change to 'nempty'; this variable now represents the number of states per atom and spin; this scales automatically as the number of atoms is increased -default 'nempty' is now 4 -M. Meinert changed the default Broyden parameters after extensive testing -LN fixed bug in XCrysDen Fermi surface plotting -LN also reduced the number of states which contribution to the Fermi surface plot to the minimum -supercell phonon calculations can now be restarted with 'task=202' -Frank Wagner discovered a bug which affects certain types of symmetries in rare instances; this has now been fixed -Important: default smearing function is now Fermi-Dirac (stype=3) -entropy contribution now added to the total energy -default smearing width reduced to 0.001 Ha, corresponding to room temperature -M. Meinert added a blocks-to-columns script; this is in the 'utilities' directory -Oscar Grånäs added to list of main authors elk-1.4.22 -Important:fixed bug in BSE calculations owing to incorrect rotation of dielectric function matrix elements; thanks to Arkardy Davydov for pointing this out -BSE is now three separate tasks: 185 writes the BSE Hamiltonian to file, 186 diagonalises the Hamiltonian and 187 produces the BSE dielectric function; thanks to Markus Meinert for suggesting this -adiabatic local density approximation (ALDA) for linear-response TDDFT now available; see example 'diamond-TDDFT-ALDA' -added Markus' suggestion that the Tran-Blaha constant can now be read in with the variable 'c_tb09' -added new variable 'highq'; set this to .true. and the most important parameters are set for a high-quality, well-converged calculation; see the settings in the file 'readinput.f90'; thanks to Igor Mazin for all the testing -removed the variables 'lmaxinr' and 'fracinr' as they were unnecessary -simplified TDDFT routines -Important: the variable 'radkpt' has been redefined and should be made larger by 2π ; (sorry about this, the original scale for this variable was correct!) -fixed problem with MPI that caused some LDA+U runs to crash; thanks to Alaska Subedi for pointing this out -added documentation -several minor bug fixes and optimisations elk-1.4.18 -Important:fixed severe bug affecting spin-unpolarised native GGA functionals, thanks to Jiji Pulikkotil for pointing out a problem with Mg3Sb2 which led to its discovery; this now makes structural optimisation truly variational for PBE -Important:fixed severe bug affecting spin-polarised 'libxc' GGA functionals -thanks to Miguel Marques and Silvana Botti for the week-long collaboration at Université Lyon where, amongst other things, we rewrote the meta-GGA interface to 'libxc' -thanks to Markus Meinert for careful testing of meta-GGA with various systems -MM also added questions and answers to the FAQ -meta-GGA now works for collinear magnetism only: it is inconsistent with non-collinearity -Henning Glawe pointed out a bug affecting the generation of the k-point set when 'autokpt=.true.' -Important: the variable 'radkpt' has been redefined and should be made smaller by a factor of 2π -SS fixed a bug in the plotting of spin-polarised Fermi surfaces -electron momentum density now available with 'task=170'; thanks to S. Dugdale and D. Ernsting for discussions -lattice vectors, atomic positions and muffin-tin magnetic fields can now be randomised by setting the random amplitudes 'rndavec', 'rndatposc' and 'rndbfcmt' to positive values; this is useful for checking stability of a calculation -the k-points corresponding to the indirect band-gap are now reported to 'INFO.OUT' -lots of optimisations and simplifications elk-1.4.5 -potential-only meta-GGA now available in conjunction with Libxc as an experimental feature; see the example 'Si-meta-GGA'; thanks to Miguel Marques for discussions -finite q-vector linear response TDDFT now available thanks to SS -Important: variable 'autormt' has been removed and automatic scaling of the muffin-tin radii is now always on; a new simpler algorithm for computing the radii was implemented; non-overlapping muffin-tins will not be rescaled; calculations may need to be reconverged -changed parameter for estimation of the nuclear radius from Z to A; thanks to Giorgio Concas for pointing this out -Kohn-Sham band gap written to 'GAP.OUT' after each iteration -3D nesting function plot now available; use 'task=105' -fixed problem with a constant in the BSE exchange term -fixed problem of TDDFT freezing with MPI -lots of optimisations and simplifications elk-1.3.31 -fixed problem with OpenMP 'reduction' clause in calculation of dielectric function -no other changes elk-1.3.30 -removed factor of 2 from the BSE exchange term, this has little effect on spectra in the optical range; spotted by Markus Meinert after careful investigation of core-state BSE spectra -M. Meinert also improved the 'CaO-BSE-core' and 'Fe-XMCD' examples -fixed problem with symmetry discovered by Alexey Baranov -calculation of the partial DOS is now parallel, thanks to suggestions from Anton Filanovich -various optimisations; including some ideas from Anton Kozhevnikov -iterative diagonalisation is now much faster -improved the adaptive mixing scheme -improved the initial stability of the self-consistent loop, thanks to discussions with Lars Nordstrom Notes for developers -inverse indices from 'idxis', 'idxia', 'idxil' and 'idxim' for species, atoms and angular momenta are now available, thanks to A. Kozhevnikov -the arguments to hmlaa, hmlalo, hmllolo, olpaa, olpalo, olplolo have changed elk-1.3.22 -fixed a problem which occurs with version 10 of the Intel compiler -simplified the 'setup' script and added OpenMP compiler options by default -no other changes elk-1.3.20 -added directionality to the TDDFT code; thanks also to Vladimir Nazarov for discussions -a pre-print is now available for the new TDDFT 'bootstrap' kernel: arXiv:1107.0199v1 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] -added the scissor correction to the RPA inverse dielectric function in EPSINV_RPA.OUT -fixed a problem with running geometry optimisation with MPI; thanks to Arkady Davydov and Antonio Sanna for discussions -geometry optmimisation has changed: now the geometry, interatomic distances, final total energies and forces are stored for each optimisation step in GEOMETRY_OPT.OUT, IADIST_OPT.OUT, TOTENERGY_OPT.OUT and FORCES_OPT.OUT -removed geometry optmisation from the ground-state calculation and put it in a separate subroutine -reduced pseudocharge density constant (lnpsd) because the spherical bessel function order could be too large; may change total energies slightly -q-points and weights written to QPOINTS.OUT -minor changes and optimisations elk-1.3.15 -fixed serious bug introduced in the last version affecting some tasks (for example DOS plots) for crystals with non-symorphic symmetries; thanks to Vladimir Nazarov and Daniel Rohr for pointing this out -VM also fixed the graphene example, in which the atomic coordinates were (embarrassingly) incorrect; also included a high-precision DOS plot to demonstrate the Dirac-like band structure -SS, JKD, Antonio Sanna and Hardy Gross added a new TDDFT functional, called the 'bootstrap' kernel, which produces remarkably good linear optical response functions (article currently in preparation); see the example 'LiF-TDDFT' -Antonio Sanna added the Eliashberg equations for finding the superconducting gap as a function of temperature; see the example 'Al-Eliashberg' -improved the electron-phonon coupling calculation (task=240); this is faster, more accurate and now works for spin-spirals; now also parallelised with MPI -removed packed matrix format everwhere in the code, along with the variable 'tpmat'; the first-variational matrices are now stored in upper triangular format; this takes more memory, but is faster -Anton Kozhevnikov fixed a small problem with calculating the nuclear-nuclear energy -various optimisations, simplifications and minor bug fixes -this version of the code with be used in the CECAM Tutorial Notes for developers -the order of indeices for the q- and w-dependent inverse dielectric function, epsinv, have changed from (w,G,G') to (G,G',w) elk-1.3.2 -linear response time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) now available for calculating the q->0 dielectric response; see the example 'LiF-TDDFT' (experimental) -fixed a problem with the BSE calculation which made the response function too large -added the possibility of using arbitrary states in the BSE kernel thanks to discussions with Markus Meinert; this enables the calulation of core state BSE spectra; see the example 'CaO-BSE-core' (experimental) -MM also added an X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) example: 'Fe-XMCD' -BSE calculations are now faster, thanks to discussions with MM -Alexey Baranov made several changes to the structure factor code, including adding an energy window, 'wsfac', for the calculations; see the example 'MnO-str-factors' -Tyrel McQueen suggested a way to speed up the Hartree-Fock calculation; this has been implemented and also considerably speeds up OEP and RDMFT -TMcQ also made some ongoing changes to the hybrid functional code -made the radial Dirac and Schrodinger integrators yet more stable; thanks to AB and Frank Wagner for discussions -fixed a problem with the ordinary RPA dielectric function; only affects calculations which have a scissor shift which made epsilon slightly too small -real symmetric diagonalisation now used for the first-variational eigenvalue problem for crystals with inversion symmetry; this can speed up the calculation by a factor of three; this is thanks to discussions with Lars Nordstrom; Important: the atomic basis may be shifted to a different position and old output files may need to be reconverged -fixed a stability problem which occurs when using GGA functionals by removing G-vector truncation of the effective potential introduced in version 1.0.16; thanks to Greg Walker for discovering this -LDA+U calculations are now faster thanks to fast evaluation of the atomic density matrix -Broyden mixing scheme now available: this seems to be both fast and stable (use 'mixtype=3') -removed Anderson mixing -improved starting guess for the density in ground-state calculations -upgraded to LAPACK 3.3.1 -various optimisations and simplifications Notes for developers -the arrays haa, halo, hlolo, oalo, ololo are now smaller and the indexing has been rearranged elk-1.2.20 -the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for linear optics now works beyond the Tamm-Dankoff approximation -RPA and BSE calculations now use full wavefunctions instead of plane waves -removed the Coulomb regulator from the calculation of RPA dielectric function, instead used the analytic results for the head and the wings of the matrix (thanks to Vladimir Nazarov for discussions) -improved the stability of radial Dirac and Schrodinger integrators (thanks to Alexei Baranov, Frank Wagner and Ondrej Certik for discussions) -added more block descriptions to the manual (thanks to various people for pointing out omissions) -various optimisations elk-1.2.15 -SS and JKD added the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) for linear optics calculations. This feature works with LDA+U, magnetism and spin-orbit coupling. It is also parallelised with MPI and can be run across a cluster. See the 'LiF-BSE' and 'Si-BSE' examples. Currently an experimental feature -Alexey Baranov added density and magnetic structure factors: see the 'MnO-str-factors' example -AB also fixed a problem with output of the spacegroup code -full frequency and G vector dependent RPA inverse dielectric function now available with 'task=180'. Works with metals, insulators, magnetism and SOC, and can be calculated for arbitrary complex frequencies. Also parallelised with OpenMP and MPI. Thanks to Anton Kozhevnikov for discussions -added lots more MPI parallelism and made the code more MPI-friendly -many optimisations across the whole code -Simone Chiesa, Anton Kozhevnikov and Adolfo Eguiluz found a problem in the plotting of the partial DOS which has now been fixed -the first-variational eigenvalue matrices can now be stored and diagonalised in non-packed storage mode: use 'tpmat=.false.'. This can speed up calculations at the expense of memory -Tyrel McQueen found a bug in the 'findprim' routine, now fixed -TMcQ also suggested a change to how the code connects the points of the 'plot1d' vertices -Martin Stankovski suggested that 'ecvcut' be made into an input variable, allowing the core-valence cut-off to be adjusted -added the phonon calculation of Ni to the examples -Jerzy Goraus contributed a script for calculating VB-XPS spectra from PDOS* files; and also one for converting the Wien2K struct file to spacegroup.in -modified some species files thanks to tests done by J. Goraus -Henning Glawe suggested including the version number in the release directory -upgraded to LAPACK 3.3.0 -made tolerance for finding the linearisation energies (epsband) much smaller: this improves the overall stability of the self-consistent loop Notes for developers -arguments to 'genppts' have changed; also the non-reduced k-points are now stored in the remaining part of the reduced k-point arrays elk-1.1.4 -message passing interface (MPI) parallel runs now available; scalable to hundreds of cores across a cluster; can also be used as hybrid OpenMP+MPI parallelism for maximum efficiency; with thanks to Bhagawan Sahu for help with testing; see manual for compilation and running instructions -S. Sharma added susceptibility tensor for non-linear optical second-harmonic generation (SHG); see example 'GaAs-NLO' for details -added spin-orbit correction to momentum matrix elements; affects linear and non-linear optics -optical calculations now work in combination with spin-spirals -updated interface to version 1.0 of the ETSF exchange-correlation library, libxc; thanks to M. Marques and T. McQueen for assistance -fixed bug spotted by T. McQueen involving using multiple tasks in conjunction with 'primcell=.true.' -A. Kozhevnikov fixed bug in 'xc_pwca.f90' -A. Kozhevnikov also fixed serious bug in 'getevecfv.f90' -F. Cricchio changed the order of lattice vector angles in 'spacegroup' utility to 'bc, ac, ab' which corresponds to the convention alpha, beta, gamma -removed scissor correction from eigenvalue solver; now it is used, as before, only in optics calculations -T. McQueen suggested an improvement to the routine which generates the path in reciprocal space for bandstructure plots, 'connect.f90', which has been implemented -fixed problem with XCrysDen Fermi surface plots, spotted by FC -various optimisations and simplifications Notes for developers -arguments to 'zpotcoul' have changed in anticipation of linear-response phonons; should now be called in conjunction with 'genzvclmt' elk-1.0.17 -fixed problem with Fermi surface generation introduced in the last version -E. K. U. Gross added to list of main developers -no other changes elk-1.0.16 -fixed problem in linear optics calculations for metals - thanks to Antonio Sanna, Fabio Bernardini and Sandro Massida for pointing this out -FC and LN added option for automatic determination of APW linearisation energies (use 'autolinengy=.true.') -Marty Blaber made a script which allows for semi-automatic labeling of the vertex locations with gnuplot (found in the 'elk/utilities' directory) -FC and LN fixed problem with some compilers when writing FERMISURF.OUT -FC and LN fixed problem with writing XCrysDen Fermi surface plots -Anton Kozhevnikov found and fixed a problem with the generation of the irreducible representation file 'ELMIREP.OUT' -Torbjörn Björkman added a new routine which automatically determines the smearing width from the k-point density. See 'autoswidth' in the manual and the example 'Nb-autoswidth' for details -added a constant electric field E in the form of a saw-tooth potential: set the vector 'efieldc' (experimental) -added a constant vector potential A to the Hamiltonian to generate constant currents: set the variable 'afieldc' (experimental) -FC and LN fixed problem with a spin-polarised GGA routine -FC and LN pointed out that the energy term associated with the excess charge compensating background should be zero. This term has now been removed -code now more memory efficient thanks to smarter array allocation -the variable 'rgkmax' can now be made arbitrarily large without risk of instability -removed variable 'cfdamp' -Anton Kozhevnikov pointed out that the radial functions were being redundantly calculated for equivalent atoms -- now fixed -Anton Filanovich added several questions to the FAQ -scissors correction (given by the variable 'scissor') now applied consistently immediately after the generation of the eigenvalues -FC and LN removed the spherical harmonic transform matrices with rank lmmaxapw -added dielectric function calculation for arbitrary q-vector, see 'LiF-Yambo' example (experimental) -by setting 'gmaxvr=0', the G-vector cut-off for the potential and density is automatically determined from 'gmaxvr=2*gkmax+epslat' -various bug fixes, simplifications and optimisations