Tutorials

How to analyze an atomic structure

Atomic structure act as an input to multiple simulations such as for density functional theory, molecular dyanmics, Monte Carlo, atomistic graph neural network etc. So, we provide a very bried introduction to the atomic structure here. For more general information, refer to solid-state physics or introduction to materials-science books.

An atomic structure can consist of atomic element types, corresponding xyz coordinates in space (either in real or reciprocal space) and lattice matrix used in setting periodic boundary conditions.

An example of constructing an atomic structure class using jarvis.core.Atoms is given below. After creating the Atoms class, we can simply print it and visualize the POSCAR format file in a software such as VESTA. While the examples below use Silicon elemental crystal creation and analysis, it can be used for multi-component systems as well.

from jarvis.core.atoms import Atoms
box = [[2.715, 2.715, 0], [0, 2.715, 2.715], [2.715, 0, 2.715]]
coords = [[0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25]]
elements = ["Si", "Si"]
Si = Atoms(lattice_mat=box, coords=coords, elements=elements, cartesian=False)
print (Si) # To visualize
Si.write_poscar('POSCAR.vasp')
Si.write_cif('POSCAR.vasp')

The Atoms class here is created from the raw data, but it can also be read from different file formats such as: ‘.cif’, ‘POSCAR’, ‘.xyz’, ‘.pdb’, ‘.sdf’, ‘.mol2’ etc. The Atoms class can also be written to files in formats such as POSCAR/.cif etc.

Note that for molecular systems, we use a large vaccum padding (say 50 Angstrom in each direction) and set lattice_mat accordingly, e.g. lattice_mat = [[50,0,0],[0,50,0],[0,0,50]]. Similarly, for free surfaces we set high vaccum in one of the crystallographic directions (say z) by giving a large z-comonent in the lattice matrix while keeping the x, y comonents intact.

my_atoms = Atoms.from_poscar('POSCAR')
my_atoms.write_poscar('MyPOSCAR')

Once this Atoms class is created, several imprtant information can be obtained such as:

print ('volume',Si.volume)
print ('density in g/cm3', Si.density)
print ('composition as dictionary', Si.composition)
print ('Chemical formula', Si.composition.reduced_formula)
print ('Spacegroup info', Si.spacegroup())
print ('lattice-parameters', Si.lattice.abc, Si.lattice.angles)
print ('packing fraction',Si.packing_fraction)
print ('number of atoms',Si.num_atoms)
print ('Center of mass', Si.get_center_of_mass())
print ('Atomic number list', Si.atomic_numbers)

For creating/accessing dataset(s), we use Atoms.from_dict() and Atoms.to_dict() methods:

d = Si.to_dict()
new_atoms = Atoms.from_dict(d)

The jarvis.core.Atoms object can be converted back and forth to other simulation toolsets such as Pymatgen and ASE if insyalled, as follows

pmg_struct = Si.pymatgen_converter()
ase_atoms = Si.ase_converter()

In order to make supercell, the following example can be used:

supercell_1 = Si.make_supercell([2,2,2])
supercell_2 = Si.make_supercell_matrix([[2,0,0],[0,2,0],[0,0,2]])
supercell_1.density == supercell_2.density

How to get RDF, ADF, DDF

Nearest-neighbor analysis one of the most important tools in atomistic simulations. Quantities such as radial (RDF), angle (ADF) and dihedral (DDF) distribution functions can be obtained using jarvis.analysis.structure.neighbors.NeighborsAnalysis class as shown in the following example using the Si Atoms class obtained above. Different cut-off parameters for angle and sihedral distribution are used to narrow down the number of neighbors. For details, please look into respective modules.

nb = NeighborsAnalysis(Si)
bins_rdf, rdf, nbs = nb.get_rdf() #Global Radial distribution function
adfa, bins_a = nb.ang_dist_first() #Angular distribution function upto first neighbor
adfb, bins_b = nb.ang_dist_second() #Angular distribution function upto second neighbor
ddf, bins_d = nb.get_ddf() #Dihedral distribution function upto first neighbor
import matplotlib
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.gridspec import GridSpec

the_grid = GridSpec(2, 2)
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 24})
plt.figure(figsize=(16,14))

plt.subplot(the_grid[0, 0])
plt.title('(a) RDF')
plt.plot(bins_rdf, rdf)
plt.xlabel(r'Distance bins ($\AA$)')

plt.subplot(the_grid[0, 1])
plt.title('(b) ADF-a')
plt.plot(bins_a[:-1], adfa)
plt.xlabel(r'Angle bins ($^\circ$)')

plt.subplot(the_grid[1, 0])
plt.title('(c) ADF-b')
plt.plot(bins_b[:-1], adfb)
plt.xlabel(r'Angle bins ($^\circ$)')

plt.subplot(the_grid[1, 1])
plt.title('(d) DDF')
plt.plot(bins_d[:-1], ddf)
plt.xlabel(r'Angle bins ($^\circ$)')
plt.tight_layout()

How to get XRD paterns

X-ray diffraction patterns act as one of the most important experimental methods for determining atomic structure. Using Cu-K alpha wavelength, the theoretical XRD patterns (two-theta and d_hkl dependence) for Si class above can be obatined as follows.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.gridspec import GridSpec

Si = Atoms(lattice_mat=box, coords=coords, elements=elements)
a, b, c = XRD().simulate(atoms=atoms)

the_grid = GridSpec(1,2)
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 24})
plt.figure(figsize=(10,5))

plt.subplot(the_grid[0])
plt.bar(a,c)
plt.xlabel('2$\Theta$')
plt.ylabel('XRD intensity')
plt.subplot(the_grid[1])
plt.bar(a,b)
plt.xlabel('d$_{hkl}$')
plt.ylabel('XRD intensity')
plt.tight_layout()

How to make defects

While the above Si atomic structure generated above is perfect/defect free, in reality there can be several defects present in an atomic structure such as point defects (vacancies, interstitials, substituions), line defects (dislocations), surface-defects (free-surfaces, grain boundaries, stacking faults, interfaces), volume-defects (voids/pores) etc.

An example of creating vacancy structures using unique Wycoff positions is shown below:

Similarly, an example of creating, free surfaces is shown below:

from jarvis.analysis.defects.surface import wulff_normals, Surface

# Let's create (1,1,1) surface with three layers, and vacuum=18.0 Angstrom
# We center it around origin so that it looks good during visualization
surface_111 = (
    Surface(atoms=Si, indices=[1, 1, 1], layers=3, vacuum=18)
        .make_surface()
        .center_around_origin()
)
print(surface_111)

While the above example makes only one surface (111), we can ask jarvis-tools to provide all symmetrically distinct surfaces as follows:

from jarvis.analysis.structure.spacegroup import (
    Spacegroup3D,
    symmetrically_distinct_miller_indices,
)
spg = Spacegroup3D(atoms=Si)
cvn = spg.conventional_standard_structure
mills = symmetrically_distinct_miller_indices(max_index=3, cvn_atoms=cvn)
for i in mills:
    surf = Surface(atoms=Si, indices=i, layers=3, vacuum=18).make_surface()
    print ('Index:', i)
    print (surf)

Heterostructures of a film and a substrate can be created using ZSL algorithm as shown in the following example:

How to setup/analyze DFT calculations using VASP

The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a package for performing ab initio quantum mechanical calculations using either Vanderbilt pseudopotentials, or the projector augmented wave method, and a plane wave basis set. Manual for VASP is available at: https://www.vasp.at/wiki/index.php/The_VASP_Manual .

Running a VASP calculation requires the following files: INCAR, POSCAR, KPOINTS, POTCAR as well as additional files such as vdw_kernel.bindat for specific types of calculations. While setting up calculations for one or a few systems/setups should be straight forward, setting up calculations for thousands of materials and most importantly making a database out of all those calculations require automated calculations script collections such as JARVIS-Tools.

Gievn an atomic structure in 1) jarvis.core.Atoms format, JARVIS-Tools 2) prepares input files such as INCAR etc. as mentioned above and 3) submits the calculations to your queuing system such as SLURM/PBS using jarvis.tasks.vasp and jarvis.tasks.queue_jobs. After a calculations get completed, 4) automated analysis can be carried out and plots and webpages are generated. The input file generation and output file parsing modules for VASP can be found in jarvis.io.vasp.inputs and jarvis.io.vasp.outputs modules. The automated analyis and XML generation for webpages can be found in jarvis.db.vasp_to_xml module. After the xml page creation they are converted using html using XSLT scripts.

Additionally, a JSON file is created with metadata from all the XML pages for thousands of materials to easily use in data-analytics/machine learning applications.The JARVIS-DFT (https://jarvis.nist.gov/jarvisdft/) database primarily uses such a workflow. Make sure VASP_PSP_DIR is declared as a PATH to VASP pseudopotential directory i.e.

$ export VASP_PSP_DIR=YOUR_PATH_TO_PSUEDOPTENTIALS

in your ~/.bashrc file.

How to setup a single calculation

We start by setting up and submitting a single VaspJob:

from jarvis.tasks.vasp.vasp import VaspJob, write_vaspjob
from jarvis.io.vasp.inputs import Potcar, Incar, Poscar
from jarvis.db.jsonutils import dumpjson
from jarvis.core.atoms import Atoms
from jarvis.core.kpoints import Kpoints3D
from jarvis.tasks.queue_jobs import Queue
import os

# Load/build crystal structure
mat = Poscar.from_file('POSCAR')
# coords = [[0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25]]
# elements = ["Si", "Si"]
# box = [[2.715, 2.715, 0], [0, 2.715, 2.715], [2.715, 0, 2.715]]
# atoms = Atoms(lattice_mat=box, coords=coords, elements=elements)
# mat = Poscar(atoms)
# mat.comment = "Silicon"

# Build INCAR file
data = dict(
    PREC="Accurate",
    ISMEAR=0,
    SIGMA=0.01,
    IBRION=2,
    ISIF=3,
    GGA="BO",
    PARAM1=0.1833333333,
    PARAM2=0.2200000000,
    LUSE_VDW=".TRUE.",
    AGGAC=0.0000,
    EDIFF="1E-7",
    EDIFFG="-1E-3",
    NELM=400,
    ISPIN=2,
    LCHARG=".FALSE.",
    LVTOT=".FALSE.",
    LVHAR=".FALSE.",
    LWAVE=".FALSE.",
)
inc = Incar(data)
# Build POTCAR info
# export VASP_PSP_DIR = 'PATH_TO_YOUR_PSP'
pot = Potcar.from_atoms(mat.atoms)
#pot = Potcar(elements=mat.atoms.elements)

# Build Kpoints info
kp = Kpoints3D().automatic_length_mesh(
    lattice_mat=mat.atoms.lattice_mat, length=20
)

vasp_cmd = "PATH_TO vasp_std"
copy_files = ["PATH_TO vdw_kernel.bindat"]
jobname = "MAIN-RELAX@JVASP-1002"
job = VaspJob(
    poscar=mat,
    incar=inc,
    potcar=pot,
    kpoints=kp,
    vasp_cmd=vasp_cmd,
    copy_files=copy_files,
    jobname=jobname,
)

dumpjson(data=job.to_dict(), filename="job.json")
write_vaspjob(pyname="job.py", job_json="job.json")

The job.py can now be run on a cluster or on a PC as a python script. For running this job on a PBS cluster,

submit_cmd = ["qsub", "submit_job"]
# Example job commands, need to change based on your cluster
job_line = (
    "source activate my_jarvis \n"
    + "python job.py"
)
name = "TestJob"
directory = os.getcwd()
Queue.pbs(
    job_line=job_line,
    jobname=name,
    directory=directory,
    submit_cmd=submit_cmd,
    )

How to setup high-throughput calculations

Currently, JARVIS-Tools can be used to submit job with SLURM and PBS clusters only. For high-throughput automated submissions one can use pre-build JobFactory module that allows automatic calculations for a series of properties.

# List of materials to run high-throughput calculations on
ids = ['POSCAR-1.vasp','POSCAR-2.vasp','POSCAR-3.vasp']

from jarvis.tasks.vasp.vasp import (
    JobFactory,
    VaspJob,
    GenericIncars,
    write_jobfact,
)
from jarvis.io.vasp.inputs import Potcar, Incar, Poscar
from jarvis.db.jsonutils import dumpjson
from jarvis.db.figshare import data
from jarvis.core.atoms import Atoms
from jarvis.tasks.queue_jobs import Queue
import os
vasp_cmd = "mpirun PATH_TO vasp_std"
copy_files = ["PATH_TO vdw_kernel.bindat"]
submit_cmd = ["qsub", "submit_job"]

# For slurm
# submit_cmd = ["sbatch", "submit_job"]

steps = [
    "ENCUT",
    "KPLEN",
    "RELAX",
    "BANDSTRUCT",
    "OPTICS",
    "MBJOPTICS",
    "ELASTIC",
]
incs = GenericIncars().optb88vdw().incar.to_dict()

for id in ids:
    mat = Poscar.from_file(id)
    cwd_home = os.getcwd()
    dir_name = id.split('.vasp')[0] + "_" + str("PBEBO")
    if not os.path.exists(dir_name):
        os.makedirs(dir_name)
    os.chdir(dir_name)
    job = JobFactory(
        vasp_cmd=vasp_cmd,
        poscar=mat,
        steps=steps,
        copy_files=copy_files,
        use_incar_dict=incs,
    )

    dumpjson(data=job.to_dict(), filename="job_fact.json")
    write_jobfact(
        pyname="job_fact.py",
        job_json="job_fact.json",
        input_arg="v.step_flow()",
    )

    # Example job commands, need to change based on your cluster
    job_line = (
        "source activate my_jarvis \n"
        + "python job_fact.py"
    )
    name = id
    directory = os.getcwd()
    Queue.pbs(
        job_line=job_line,
        jobname=name,
        #partition="",
        walltime="24:00:00",
        #account="",
        cores=12,
        directory=directory,
        submit_cmd=submit_cmd,
    )
    os.chdir(cwd_home)
    """
    # For Slurm clusters
    Queue.slurm(
        job_line=job_line,
        jobname=name,
        directory=directory,
        submit_cmd=submit_cmd,
    )
    os.chdir(cwd_home)
    """

We provide modules to convert the calculation informato to XML which can be converted to HTML using XSLT. An example is give below:

from jarvis.db.vasp_to_xml import VaspToApiXmlSchema
from jarvis.db.restapi import Api
folder="jarvis/jarvis/examples/vasp/SiOptB88vdW"
filename = "JVASP-1002.xml"
VaspToApiXmlSchema(folder=folder).write_xml(filename=filename)

How to plot electronic bandstructure and DOS

If you use the workflow used above, the density of states plot can be obtained using thr vasprun.xml file in MAIN-RELAX folder while the band-structure plot is obtained using vasprun.xml in MAIN-BAND folder.

from jarvis.io.vasp.outputs import Vasprun
vrun = Vasprun('vasprun.xml')
%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 22})

# Bandstructure plot
vrun.get_bandstructure(kpoints_file_path='KPOINTS')

# DOS plot
energies, spin_up, spin_dn=vrun.total_dos
plt.rcParams.update({'font.size': 22})
plt.plot(energies,spin_up,label='Spin-up')
plt.plot(energies,spin_dn,label='Spin-down')
plt.xlabel('Energy(E-Ef)')
plt.ylabel('DOS(arb.unit)')
plt.xlim(-4,4)
plt.legend()

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How to run BoltzTrap for transport properties

How to make heterostructures/interfaces

How to get IR/Raman spectra

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How to get work-function of a surface

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How to run/analyze MD static/dynamic calculation using LAMMPS

Molecular dynamics/classical force-field calculations can be carried out with LAMMPS software as in JARVIS-FF. An example for running LAMMPS is given below. Here, a LammpsJob module is defined with the help of atoms, pair-style, coefficient, and template file (*.mod file) to control the calculations.

How to run calculation

from jarvis.tasks.lammps.lammps import LammpsJob, JobFactory
from jarvis.core.atoms import Atoms
from jarvis.db.figshare import get_jid_data
from jarvis.analysis.structure.spacegroup import Spacegroup3D


# atoms = Atoms.from_poscar('POSCAR')
# Get Aluminum FCC from JARVIS-DFT database
tmp_dict = get_jid_data(jid="JVASP-816", dataset="dft_3d")["atoms"]
atoms = Atoms.from_dict(tmp_dict)

# Get conventional cell
spg = Spacegroup3D(atoms)
cvn_atoms = spg.conventional_standard_structure

# Set-up path to force-field/potential file, .mod file. and lammps executable
ff = "/users/knc6/Software/LAMMPS/lammps-master/potentials/Al_zhou.eam.alloy"
mod = "/users/knc6/Software/Devs/jarvis/jarvis/tasks/lammps/templates/inelast.mod"
cmd = "/users/knc6/Software/LAMMPS/lammps-master/src/lmp_serial<in.main>out"
parameters = {
    "pair_style": "eam/alloy",
    "pair_coeff": ff,
    "atom_style": "charge",
    "control_file": mod,
}


# Test LammpsJob
lmp = LammpsJob(
    atoms=cvn_atoms, parameters=parameters, lammps_cmd=cmd, jobname="Test"
).runjob()

# Test in a high-throughput
job_fact = JobFactory(pair_style="eam/alloy", name="my_first_lammps_run")
job_fact.all_props_eam_alloy(atoms=cvn_atoms, ff_path=ff, lammps_cmd=cmd)

How to analyze data

An example to parse LAMMPS calculation folder using the above workflow is shown below:

from jarvis.io.lammps.outputs import parse_material_calculation_folder
folder = '/home/users/knc6/Software/jarvis/jarvis/examples/lammps/Aleam'
data = parse_material_calculation_folder(folder)
print (data)

The calculation data can now be converted into XML files as follows. The XML with the help of XSLT is converted into an HTML page.

from jarvis.db.lammps_to_xml import write_xml
write_xml(data=data,filename='JLMP-123.xml')

How to run/analyze DFT static calculation using Quantum espresso

Quantum ESPRESSO is a suite for first-principles electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling, distributed for free and as free software under the GNU General Public License. It is based on density-functional theory, plane wave basis sets, and pseudopotentials.

How to setup a single calculation

An example for running QE simulation is shown below:

from jarvis.core.kpoints import Kpoints3D
from jarvis.core.atoms import Atoms
box = [[2.715, 2.715, 0], [0, 2.715, 2.715], [2.715, 0, 2.715]]
coords = [[0, 0, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25]]
elements = ["Si", "Si"]
Si = Atoms(lattice_mat=box, coords=coords, elements=elements)
print(Si)
kp = Kpoints3D().automatic_length_mesh(
    lattice_mat=Si.lattice_mat, length=20
)
qe = QEinfile(Si, kp)
qe.write_file()
kp = Kpoints3D().kpath(atoms=Si)
qe = QEinfile(Si, kp)
qe.write_file("qe.in2")
sp = qe.atomic_species_string()
sp = qe.atomic_cell_params()
print("sp", sp)
print(qe.input_params['system_params']['nat'])
$PATH_TO_PWSCF/pw.x -i qe.in

How to setup high-throughput calculations

How to traing JARVIS-CFID ML models using sklearn/lightgbm

There are several methods to train atomistic property ML models such as based on hand-crafted descritprs and graph neural network. Examples of such methods are: JARVIS-CFID (Classical Force-Field Inspired Descriptors) for descriptors based training and JARVIS-ALIGNN (Atomistic Line Graph Neural Network) based on GNNs. In this section we discuss the JARVIS-CFID ( jarvis.ai.descriptors.cfid), which can be used for training models with only chemical formula or chemical formula+structure information.

How to train chemical formula only datasets

For each chemical formula, we can obtain 438 descriptors consisting of features such as avergae electronegativity, average boiling points of elements etc. An example of getting descriptors isshown below:

import numpy as np
from jarvis.core.composition import Composition
from jarvis.core.specie import Specie
from jarvis.ai.pkgs.lgbm.regression import regression
from jarvis.ai.descriptors.cfid import get_chem_only_descriptor

# Load a dataset, you can use pandas read_csv also to generte my_data
# Here is a sample dataset
my_data = [
    ["CoAl", 1],
    ["CoNi", 2],
    ["CoNb2Ni5", 3],
    ["Co1.2Al2.3NiRe2", 4],
    ["Co", 5],
    ["CoAlTi", 1],
    ["CoNiTi", 2],
    ["CoNb2Ni5Ti", 3],
    ["Co1.2Al2.3NiRe2Ti", 4],
    ["CoTi", 5],
    ["CoAlFe", 1],
    ["CoNiFe", 2],
    ["CoNb2Ni5Fe", 3],
    ["Co1.2Al2.3NiRe2Fe", 4],
    ["CoFe", 5],
]


# Convert my_data to numpy array
X = []
Y = []
IDs = []
for ii, i in enumerate(my_data):
    X.append(get_chem_only_descriptor(i[0]))
    Y.append(i[1])
    IDs.append(ii)

X = np.array(X)
Y = np.array(Y).reshape(-1, 1)
IDs = np.array(IDs)

Now, we can use different ML algorithms on the descriptors and dataset such as linear regression, random forest, gradient boosting etc.

An example, for using LightGBM with jarvis-tools wrapper code is shown below:

# Train a LightGBM regression model
config = {"n_estimators": 5, "learning_rate": 0.01, "num_leaves": 2}
# The regression module does feature pre-processing as well
# Change config settings to improve model such as by hyper-parameter tuning
info = regression(X=X, Y=Y, jid=IDs, feature_importance=False, config=config)


# Print performance metrices
# Print performance metrices
print(
    'r2=',info["reg_scores"]["r2"],
    'MAE=',info["reg_scores"]["mae"],
    'RMSE=',info["reg_scores"]["rmse"],
)

How to train regression model

Suppose we have 60000 materials, and we get 1557 descriptor for each material (438 chemical as above as well as structure and charge descriptors), we will have a 60000x1557 matrix. Let’s call this matrix as ‘x’ or input matrix. Next, we can get target (‘y’) data either from DFT, FF calculations or experiments. For example, we can choose formation energies of 60000 materials in the JARVIS-DFT as the dtarget data giving 60000x1 matrix.

Now, we can use a ML/AI algorithm to establish statistical relation between the x and y data. Once trained we get a trained model, which can be stored in say pickle or joblib format.

For a new material now, it can be converted into CFID i.e. 1x1557 matrix which when fed to the model will give 1x1 prediction hence the ML prediction. We can use a range of ML algorithms such as linear regression, decision trees, Gaussian processes etc. We find with CFID descriptors, gradient boosting decision trees (especially in LightGBM) gives one of the most accurate results. We provide tools to run with major ML packages such as scikit-learn, tensorflow, pytorch, lightgbm etc. Example-1:

# An example of JARVIS-ML training
from jarvis.ai.pkgs.utils import get_ml_data
from jarvis.ai.pkgs.utils import regr_scores
X,y,jid=get_ml_data()
#Formation energy for 3D materials, you can choose other properties/dataset as well
import lightgbm as lgb
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
lgbm = lgb.LGBMRegressor(device= 'gpu',n_estimators= 1170,learning_rate= 0.15375236057119931,num_leaves= 273)
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test, jid_train, jid_test = train_test_split(X, y, jid, random_state=1, test_size=.1)
lgbm.fit(X_train,y_train)
pred = lgbm.predict(X_test)
reg_sc = regr_scores(y_test, pred)
print (reg_sc['mae'])

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How to use quantum computation algorithms using Qiskit/Tequila/Pennylane

Quantum chemistry is one of the most attractive applications for quantum computations. Predicting the energy levels of a Hamiltonian is a key problem in quantum chemistry. Variational quantum eigen solver (VQE) is one of the most celebrated methods for predicting an approximate ground state of a Hamiltonian on a quantum computer following the variational principles of quantum mechanics.VQE utilizes Ritz variational principle where a quantum computer is used to prepare a wave function ansatz of the system and estimate the expectation value of its electronic Hamiltonian while a classical optimizer is used to adjust the quantum circuit parameters in order to find the ground state energy. A typical VQE task is carried out as follows: an ansatz/circuit model with tunable parameters is constructed and a quantum circuit capable of representing this ansatz is designed. In this section, we show a few examples to apply quantum algorithms for solids using Wannier-tight binding Hamiltonians (WTBH). WTBHs can be generated from several DFT codes. Here, we use JARVIS-WTBH database.

How to generate circuit model

Developing a heuristic quantum circuit model is probably the most challenging part of applying quantum algorithms. Fortunately, there are few well-known generalized models that we can use or generate ourselves. There are several circuit models (for a fixed number of qubits and repeat units) available in jarvis.core.circuits.. In the following example, we use circuit6/EfficientSU2 model and use it to predict electronic energy levels (at a K-point in the Brillouin zone) of FCC Aluminum using a WTBH.

from jarvis.db.figshare import get_wann_electron, get_wann_phonon, get_hk_tb
from jarvis.io.qiskit.inputs import HermitianSolver
from jarvis.core.circuits import QuantumCircuitLibrary
from qiskit import Aer

backend = Aer.get_backend("statevector_simulator")
# Aluminum JARVIS-ID: JVASP-816
wtbh, Ef, atoms = get_wann_electron("JVASP-816")
kpt = [0.5, 0., 0.5] # X-point
hk = get_hk_tb(w=wtbh, k=kpt)
HS = HermitianSolver(hk)
n_qubits = HS.n_qubits()
circ = QuantumCircuitLibrary(n_qubits=n_qubits).circuit6()
en, vqe_result, vqe = HS.run_vqe(var_form=circ, backend=backend)
vals,vecs = HS.run_numpy()
# Ef: Fermi-level
print('Classical, VQE (eV):', vals[0]-Ef, en-Ef)
print('Show model\n', circ)

How to run cals. on simulators

In the above example, we run simulations on statevector_simulator. Qiskit provides several other simulators, which can also be used.

How to run cals. on actual quantum computers

To run calculations on real quantum computers, we just replace the backend parameter above such as the following:

token='Get Token from your IBM account'
qiskit.IBMQ.save_account(token)
provider = IBMQ.load_account()
backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_5_yorktown')

Your job will put in a queue and as the simulation complete result will be sent back to you. Note that there might be a lot of jobs in the queue already, so it might take a while. You may run simulations using IBM GUI or use something like Jupyter notebook/Colab notebook.