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Quantum Espresso, Wannier 90, and HDF5 Download and Installation

PERTURBO uses a few subroutines from the PWSCF and Phonon packages of Quantum Espresso (QE). Therefore, it needs to be compiled on top of QE. PERTURBO needs the output files from Wannier 90 (W90). In addition, PERTURBO uses the HDF5 format to store data. For the detailed instructions on the installation of these packages, please refer to their official websites: QE, W90, HDF5. If you run the calculations on a cluster or a supercomputer, these packages might be already pre-installed. Here we provide some brief instructions on the installation of these packages. Please note that these instructions can be different for your computing environement.

Quantum Espresso

Note: The supported versions of QE is 7.0. For compatibility with the 6.4 and 6.5 QE versions, read here.

To download QE, one can use the wget command:

wget https://github.com/QEF/q-e/archive/qe-7.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf qe-7.0.tar.gz
cd q-e-qe-7.0

or to clone the package from the QE GitHub repository, specifying the version:

git clone https://github.com/QEF/q-e.git
cd q-e
git checkout qe-7.0

Once the package is downloaded run the configure command:

./configure

one can run ./configure --help to get additional configure options (for the C, C++, Fortran compilers, etc.). Compile QE:

make pw ph pp

Wannier 90

We suggest to install Wannier 90 inside the QE folder.

Download the package with wget:

wget https://github.com/wannier-developers/wannier90/archive/v3.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf v3.0.0.tar.gz
cd wannier90-3.0.0

or clone from the GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/wannier-developers/wannier90.git
cd wannier90

Compile Wannier 90:

cp ./config/make.inc.xxx ./make.inc
make

HDF5

To compile the HDF5 library, please download its source code from the official website. Once the source code is downloaded, please create an empty directory where the HDF5 library will be installed.

For example, the current directory is called ‘mylib’. We download the source code inside the directory called ‘hdf5-1.12.0-source-codes’. Now we are going to install the HDF5 library into a directory called ‘hdf5-1.12.0’. Create the empty directories:

mkdir hdf5-1.12.0

Generate a Makefile for compiling the HDF5 library using the fortran option: --enable-fortran. Please modify the 'prefix' path to fit your case. Here we compile the serial HDF5 library:

cd hdf5-1.12.0-source-codes
./configure --prefix=mylib/hdf5-1.12.0 --enable-fortran 

One can specify the compilers running the ./configure command with the additional options: CC=<c compiler>, CXX=<c++ compiler>, FC=<fortran compiler>. For more information, run ./configure --help. Compile HDF5:

make
make install

To check whether HDF5 was compiled correctly, one can run the test suite:

make test

Now we have the compiled HDF5 library inside the directory ‘hdf5-1.12.0’. Please use the directory path when compiling PERTURBO (IFLAGS and HDF5_LIB parameters in the PERTURBO make.sys file, see below).

Warning: On some systems, one may need to disable the file locking by executing the following command:
export HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING=FALSE

Note: Quantum Espresso can be also compiled with the HDF5 library. If you would like to do so, please add the option --with-hdf5=<your-hdf5-directory> when configuring QE (more details here).

PERTURBO Download and Installation

Download

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To help us keep track of user number, we encourage each individual user to submit a separate request for code download. For example, research groups with multiple users should also have each user submit a request.

If the the form does not work, see here the intructions.

Clone from GitHub (or extract .tar.gz) into the QE directory. There are three subdirectories inside the directory “perturbo”:

“config” contains the system-dependent makefiles make.sys.XXX
“pert-src” contains the source code of perturbo.x to compute electron dynamics
“qe2pert-src” contains the source code of the interface program qe2pert.x

The source code is supplemented by the tutorial examples input and output files. More details about the examples can be found in the Organization section.

Installation

There are two files in the “perturbo” directory, Makefile and make.sys. PERTURBO uses the config file make.inc of QE for most of the compiler options. The config file make.sys inside the directory “perturbo” specifies additional options required by PERTURBO. Modify make.sys to make it suitable for your system:

vim make.sys

specify the path to your HDF5 library:

IFLAGS += -L<path-to-hdf5-dir>/hdf5-1.12.0/include -lhdf5 -lhdf5_fortran
HDF5_LIB = -L<path-to-hdf5-dir>/hdf5-1.12.0/lib -lhdf5 -lhdf5_fortran

Modify the two flags FFLAGS and LDFLAGS for your compilers, for example:

#for intel compiler
FFLAGS += -qopenmp -cpp
LDFLAGS += -qopenmp

#for gfortran compiler
FFLAGS += -fopenmp -x f95-cpp-input
LDFLAGS += -fopenmp

Once the file make.sys has been modified, you are ready to compile PERTURBO:

make

After the compilation, a directory called ‘bin’ is generated, which contains two executables, perturbo.x and qe2pert.x.

Click here to see a video tutorial on this topic.

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