[Pw_forum] Langevin dynamics

Paolo Giannozzi p.giannozzi at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 11:24:26 CEST 2015


Langevin dynamics was implemented many years ago in QE, but I have never
heard of anybody using it, nor seen any evidence that it works (or that it
doesn't).

Paolo

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Venkataramana Imandi <
venkataramana.imandi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Sir/ Madam,
>
> I am using quantum espresso (version:5.1.2) for doing Langevin dynamics on
> Ethene molecules were kept top and bottom of silver oxide surface (total
> atoms: 37) running on Red Hat machine with serial and parallel process. In
> the output file, the coordinates of some of the atoms getting starred(***).
> In order to understand more about results, I tried with simple systems
> containing 2 Si atoms, the results shows that Langevin dynamics is working
> fine but the distance between two Si atoms goes on increasing (at the end
> of 100 md steps, the distance is 560 Angstroms). Moreover, herein Langevin
> dynamics is over-damped and the parameter of gamma (friction coefficient)
> is not mentioned anywhere in the input file description of pw.x related
> manual. Hence, I request you kindly suggest me how to perform Langevin
> calculations on my original system. Input file and starred(**) coordinates
> of my original system (output file) were attached.
>
>  &control
>     calculation='md',
>     prefix='ag_eth',
>     dt=20.D0,
>     nstep=50,
>   etot_conv_thr=1.0D-6,
>    forc_conv_thr=1.0D-5,
>    pseudo_dir = '/home/venkat/ORR1/PPS1'
>  /
> &system
>        ibrav=0,
>         nat=37,
>         ntyp=4,
>       ecutwfc = 30.0,
>     nosym=.true.,
>     occupations='smearing',
>     smearing='m-p',
>      degauss=0.03,
>     tot_charge=1.0
> /
> &electrons
>        electron_maxstep=2000,
>       diagonalization='david',
>        mixing_beta = 0.3,
>         conv_thr =  1.0D-6,
>        scf_must_converge=.false.
> /
> &ions
> pot_extrapolation = 'second_order',
> wfc_extrapolation = 'second_order',
> ion_dynamics='langevin',
> tempw=300.D0,
> nraise=1
>  /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
> C       12.0107 C.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
> H       1.00794 H.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
> O       15.9994 O.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
> Ag     107.8682 Ag.pbe-d-rrkjus.UPF
>
> CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}
> 7.8980000000     0.0000000000     0.0000000000
> 0.0000000000     7.8980000000     0.0000000000
> 0.0000000000     0.0000000000     9.7479000000
>
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}
>
>  C     3.674759         2.942993        -3.493103
>  H     4.121990         3.816735        -4.007690
>  H     4.121990         2.069251        -4.007690
>  C     2.211227         2.942993        -3.493103
>  H     1.763996         3.816735        -4.007690
>  H     1.763996         2.069251        -4.007690
>  O     0.000000         0.000000        -2.719012
> Ag     4.448147         4.449893        -1.919012
> Ag     4.448147         1.436093        -1.919012
> Ag     1.437838         4.449893        -1.919012
> Ag     1.437838         1.436093        -1.919012
> Ag     2.942993         2.942993         0.000000
> Ag     2.942993         0.000000         0.000000
> Ag     0.000000         2.942993         0.000000
> Ag     0.000000         0.000000         0.000000
> Ag     1.437838         1.436093         1.919012
> Ag     1.437838         4.449893         1.919012
> Ag     4.448147         1.436093         1.919012
> Ag     4.448147         4.449893         1.919012
>  O     0.000000         0.000000         2.719012
>  C     3.674759         2.942993         3.493103
>  H     4.121990         3.816735         4.007690
>  H     4.121990         2.069251         4.007690
>  C     2.211227         2.942993         3.493103
>  H     1.763996         3.816735         4.007690
>  H     1.763996         2.069251         4.007690
>  O     0.000000         5.885983        -2.719012
> Ag     2.942993         5.885983         0.000000
> Ag     0.000000         5.885983         0.000000
>  O     0.000000         5.885983         2.719012
>  O     5.885983         0.000000        -2.719012
> Ag     5.885983         2.942993         0.000000
> Ag     5.885983         0.000000         0.000000
>  O     5.885983         0.000000         2.719012
>  O     5.885983         5.885983        -2.719012
> Ag     5.885983         5.885983         0.000000
>  O     5.885983         5.885983         2.719012
>
> K_POINTS {gamma}
>
> A BIT of OUTPUT FILE
>
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)
> C       23.936881089   5.854758432   2.384283563
> H        5.319738992   3.101932011  -2.806230409
> H        5.032723666   3.366896985  -3.263624443
> C      -19.193958442  -0.839672619  -8.633281572
> H        2.840673809   3.320817821  -3.598829264
> H        2.259010092   3.506469010  -4.024573435
> O        3.200827481   3.891444136  -5.674056522
> Ag      -2.799093034   8.698187934   0.392246441
> Ag       6.216802688   0.615454519  -1.827886947
> Ag      -1.094861601   5.714331653  -3.826763750
> Ag      -0.821908140  -7.523290040  -8.937996255
> Ag       7.394141127   8.391763262   7.199208896
> Ag      66.2293865871065.326804153 192.584344197
> Ag    4515.057117298 369.600932228 188.645687521
> Ag     395.079974228 976.555500510  23.641381229
> Ag      -0.868373165   1.254442767  -0.725095564
> Ag       0.598543920   4.290748028   1.130598433
> Ag       3.451303546   0.003835176  -2.147641351
> Ag       4.967046204   4.664900169   1.274377193
> O        4.154896086   3.538399188   4.404896973
> C      399.041692489-175.281493613-563.071390643
> H        3.281002088   3.892508380   4.191590229
> H        5.590682748   1.083007852   4.528641700
> C     -206.161786136-122.423501782 -55.021382542
> H        0.246549207   5.329189077   3.491183253
> H        1.659499381   1.418695757   3.087580955
> O      -19.384256566  28.168644116  11.242605036
> Ag     -75.320660159**************-197.570811974
> Ag     561.119359654-921.736664610  96.273929826
> O        0.652654857   4.794099697   2.674333108
> O        0.725736992   1.497121799  -3.145265492
> Ag    ************** -53.851744674 435.559732159
> Ag     -59.3881630261875.893021868 -68.801534006
> O        4.092070388   0.327775217   7.087480811
> O        1.475113672   4.942700103  -3.552674785
> Ag    -847.347981606************** -58.746720826
> O        5.344579864   2.986191369   5.581658260
>
>
>
> Best,
> Venkataramana
> PhD student
>
>
> --
> venkataramana
>
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Paolo Giannozzi, Dept. Chemistry&Physics&Environment,
Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy
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