<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear all,<br><br>I would like to study MD with NPT ensemble. I am learning example 18 in QE 4.2.1 which uses cp.x to perform molecular dynamics simulation of SiO2.<br><br>For the vc-cp simulation, input file specify tempw=300 and press=1.0. However, the Averaged Physical Quantities<br> accomulated this run<br> ekinc : 0.00001 0.00001 (AU)<br> ekin : 94.60238 94.60238 (AU)<br>
epot : -343.05127 -343.05127 (AU)<br> total energy : -211.98234 -211.98234 (AU)<br> temperature : 0.75835 0.75835 (K )<br> enthalpy : -211.93045 -211.93045 (AU)<br> econs : -211.93020 -211.93020 (AU)<br> pressure : -2.19645 -2.19645 (Gpa)<br> volume : 1526.61474 1526.61474 (AU)<br><br>Why the averaged temperature and
pressure in the output file are far away from the target value set in the input? <br>One more question, what is the purpose of using cp, cp-restart, vc-cp, and vc-cp-restart together? Is this a routine to study MD, i.e. combing these four? In other words, could we just get the vc-cp part for investigating NPT ensemble?<br><br>Best regards<br>Jingyun<br><br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>