[Pw_forum] silver graphene interface

Paolo Giannozzi p.giannozzi at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 10:57:06 CEST 2017


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Ubaid Mohd <onlymubaid at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am running the relax calculation for silver graphene interface. After
> calculation my atomic positions was completely changed.
> [...] Is it right?

it is the expected behavior. Likely, your system is a layered system,
bound by van der Waals forces. Simple GGA does not account for van der
Waals forces so the layers are not bound.

Paolo

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