Dear Vicky!<div> Check the convergence of energy of isolated atoms also. Normally convergence threshold for energy for isolated species is higher than the crystal system. Check for different values of ecut and use the converged value. And next thing is you are doing calculations for bulk system so all the degrees of freedom should be relaxed for geometry optimization so instead of flag "relax" use "vc-relax".. The former one will converge the forces but not the stress and latter one converges the stress also...<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, vicky singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kirtinandan07@gmail.com">kirtinandan07@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi<br><br>I am trying to calculate the cohesive energy for tungsten. the code is attached. I am able to get the lattice parameter of 3.19 ang while experimental is 3.16 angs. Then i calculated the cohesive energy of w by calculating the energy of isolated w atom by changing lattice parameter up to 25. I got the cohesive energy of 11.1 ev/atom while reported value is 8.9 ev/atom. This is way too high. can anybody help me. I have varied the K point as well as The E_cut but no advantage.<br>
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<br>vicky singh<br>research student<br>Bangalore <br>
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