<div dir="ltr"><div>Forces are forces, that is, -dE/dR. You can easily verify that by taking fcc Si, displacing one atom (or both atoms) along (111) and looking at the direction of forces<br><br></div>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Jiqiang Li <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jqli14@fudan.edu.cn" target="_blank">jqli14@fudan.edu.cn</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div><span></span>Dear all,</div><div> Physically force can be denoted by F(R)= - dE/dR, and Helleman-Feyman theory is employed in DFT to evaluate force. <font color="#ff0000">In numerical routine of Pwscf code</font>, does force equal -dE/dR or dE/dR?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jiqiang Li</div>
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