I encountered several problems when I calcuated epsilon(omega) using ALGO=CHI.
The version of VASP I used is 5.3.3.
(1). According to the manual, LRPA=F is defaut with local feild effects (LFE) in DFT. However, if I do not designate LRPA in INCAR, when I grep DIELEC OUTCAR, I get the following:
INVERSE MACROSCOPIC DIELECTRIC TENSOR (including local field effects
in RPA (Hartree))
This is the same with LRPA=T, but it's strange. ONLY when I put LRPA=F explicitly in INCAR can I get
INVERSE MACROSCOPIC DIELECTRIC TENSOR (test charge-test charge, local field effects
in DFT)
(2). Even if I put LRPA=F in INCAR, the calculated values of INVERSE MACROSCOPIC DIELECTRIC TENSOR are identical to the results of LRPA=T.
I'm confused with the results! Are these bugs?
The INCAR files I used are as following
INCAR for LOPTICS
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ISTART=0
ENCUT=300
EDIFF=1e-6
PREC=High
ISMEAR=-5
LOPTICS=T
NBANDS=64
NPAR=4
INCAR for CHI
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System = Si
ISTART=1
ICHARG=1
ENCUT=300
EDIFF=1e-6
PREC=High
ISMEAR=-5
NBANDS=64
ALGO=CHI
Either no LRPA or LRPA=T or LRPA=F
NKRED=5
(3). BTW, another question is about the LOPTICS=T calculation. There are data named "conductivity" in the output vasprun.xml. I am confused with the data. Do the data mean the optical conductivity? Do they have the relation with epsilon(omega) like the one in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_conductivity ? If no, what's the meaning of them? If yes, I'm confused because: <1> The optical conductivity sigma(omega) should have the same frequency points as epsilon(omega) but the first column of "dielectricfunction" in vasprun.xml differs from the first column of "conductivity" . <2> There are two blocks for the "dielectricfunction" data, one for the real part and the other for the imag part, but there is only one block of data for "conductivity" implying these data are real numbers, not complex numbers. However the optical conductivity should be complex numbers according to relation in the wiki. I cannot attach a figure, so please see the figure at
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1slHxtRf