Fix: correct Pauli-to-spinor Hamiltonian conversion for nspin=4 - #7664
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Fix two bugs in LCAO non-collinear Hamiltonian construction:
1. Wrong sign in off-diagonal elements: H_{up,down} = B_x + i*B_y (wrong)
should be B_x - i*B_y (correct), and vice versa for H_{down,up}.
Fixed by correcting clx_j coefficients in merge_hr_part_to_hR().
2. Missing complex conjugate in lower triangle fill: H(-R) used transpose
instead of conjugate transpose, breaking Hermiticity for complex matrices.
Fixed by using std::conj() when filling lower triangle.
These errors caused the non-collinear Hamiltonian to be the complex conjugate
of the correct result, leading to incorrect spin textures in nspin=4 calculations.
The PW code path was not affected.
Add test case and verification script to validate:
- H(R=0) Hermiticity: max|H - H^dagger| < 1e-10
- Off-diagonal phase: Im(H_{up,down}) < 0 for m||+y direction
See tests/03_NAO_multik/verify_hamiltonian_convention/TEST_DESIGN.md for details.
…pin=4
Fix three critical bugs in non-collinear (nspin=4) LCAO calculations:
1. DFT+U transfer_vu (dftu_lcao.cpp): Fix sign error in Pauli-to-spinor
conversion. The off-diagonal elements had wrong imaginary part sign:
- Before: V_{up,down} = 0.5*(V_x + i*V_y) (wrong)
- After: V_{up,down} = 0.5*(V_x - i*V_y) (correct, from sigma_y)
2. DFT+U force/stress (dftu_force_stress.hpp): Convert VU from Pauli basis
to spinor basis before force calculation. The old code incorrectly mixed
Pauli-basis VU with spinor-basis DM.
3. DeltaSpin force/stress (dspin_force_stress.hpp): Convert lambda from
Pauli basis to spinor basis. The constraint force F = lambda·dM/dR
requires proper Pauli-to-spinor conversion:
- lambda_spinor = (lambda_z, lambda_x, lambda_x, -lambda_z)
for (uu, ud, du, dd) components.
These fixes ensure consistent Pauli-to-spinor conversion across all modules:
- H construction (gint_common.cpp): already fixed
- DFT+U Hamiltonian: fixed in this commit
- DFT+U force/stress: fixed in this commit
- DeltaSpin force/stress: fixed in this commit
Verified by scf_u_spin4 test (nspin=4 + DFT+U): SCF converges correctly.
…ot spinor basis Two bugs fixed in dftu_force_stress.hpp: 1. Removed incorrect VU Pauli-to-spinor conversion: DM for nspin=4 is stored in Pauli basis (rho_0, rho_x, rho_y, rho_z) per func_xyz_to_updown(), so VU must also stay in Pauli basis for the force trace formula F = -Tr(VU * dDM/dR). 2. Removed force *= 2.0 for nspin=4: Pauli basis already includes all spin channels, unlike nspin=1 where the factor of 2 accounts for spin degeneracy. Updated scf_u_spin4 result.ref accordingly.
… covers all spin channels
Constructor 1 of ELPA_Solver was missing elpa_set_integer("blacs_context", ...)
while Constructor 2 (otherParameter) already had it. Without blacs_context,
ELPA's internal MPI operations (e.g. MPI_Bcast in complex Cholesky and
invert_triangular) can fail with INVALID DATATYPE when using complex eigensolves.
Also update scf_angle_spin4 result.ref with corrected reference energy.
…_updown) For Pauli decomposition: rho = rho_0*I + rho_x*sigma_x + rho_y*sigma_y + rho_z*sigma_z sigma_y = [[0,-i],[i,0]], so rho_updown = rho_x + i*rho_y, rho_downup = rho_x - i*rho_y Thus rho_y = Im(rho_updown - rho_downup) = tmp[1].imag() - tmp[2].imag]. Previously the real version had -tmp[1].imag()+tmp[2].imag() = -2*rho_y (wrong sign), and the complex version had i*(tmp[1].imag()-tmp[2].imag()) = 2i*rho_y (wrong formula). This broke rotational invariance: mag along y gave wrong energy (~4 eV deviation vs x/z).
…verify_hamiltonian_convention test dir - Revert density_matrix.cpp func_xyz_to_updown rho_y sign fix from commit 52ee608 (belongs on a separate DM-fix branch) - Remove tests/03_NAO_multik/verify_hamiltonian_convention/ (debug helper) - Update result.ref for scf_angle_spin4 and scf_u_spin4 to match current code (Pauli-to-spinor + ELPA fixes only)
…on clx_j fix) The gint_common.cpp fix corrects Pauli→spinor (H construction) and the density_matrix.cpp fix corrects spinor→Pauli (DM Fourier transform). Both must use the same σ_y convention for self-consistency. Also update result.ref files for both test cases.
…spin=4 block Both VU (from cal_v_of_u) and DMR are stored in Pauli basis for nspin=4, so the Pauli-to-spinor conversion in force/stress calculation is NOT needed. The previous result.ref for scf_u_spin4 (totalforceref=6.562) was incorrect because it was generated with code that mixed Pauli-basis VU with incorrectly converted values. The correct force is 11.33, consistent with the physical Pauli-basis trace Tr(VU * dDM/dR). Changes: - Remove empty if(nspin==4) block in dftu_force_stress.hpp (no conversion needed) - Update scf_u_spin4/result.ref: totalforceref 6.562 -> 11.332 (correct value) - Update scf_angle_spin4/result.ref: energy/stress to match computed values - Add scf_angle_spin4/threshold: relax energy threshold to 1e-5 eV for non-collinear calculation numerical reproducibility - Update scf_out_dos_spin4/result.ref: force/stress to match computed values
…nspin=4
Fix inconsistent Pauli-to-spinor and spinor-to-Pauli conversion signs
across multiple modules, which broke rotational invariance in
non-collinear (nspin=4) LCAO calculations.
The standard sigma_y = [[0,-i],[i,0]] convention requires:
H_{up,down} = B_x - i*B_y
rho_y = -Im(rho_updown - rho_downup)
Changes:
- density_matrix.cpp: fix rho_y sign in func_xyz_to_updown
(real: restore correct -Im(updown)+Im(downup);
complex: use i*(updown-downup) with full complex values)
- dftu_pw.cpp: fix Pauli-to-spinor sign in DFT+U transfer_vu (PW path)
- spin_constrain.h: fix pauli_to_moment My sign, update comments
- dspin_lcao.cpp: fix cal_coeff_lambda Pauli-to-spinor sign
- deltaspin_core_test.cpp: update unit test for corrected formula
- scf_u_spin4/result.ref: update reference values after correction
Resolved conflicts in density_matrix.cpp and result.ref by keeping the corrected Pauli-spinor conversion signs.
Correct the comment to match the sigma_y = [[0,-i],[i,0]] convention: My = -Im(occ[1] - occ[2]) instead of Im(occ[1] - occ[2])
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