Dear Prasenjit and Nicola,<br><br>Thank you for the comment on smearing. I was not paying attention to it. A quick look on some logs I have here show that this contribution is not that much negligible in some calculations (around 0.00364895 Ry, for example). Thus I'll evaluate the total energy as "! total energy - smearing contribution(-TS)" from now on and see what I get.<br>
<br>I'm finishing a test battery based on another suggestion from the forum. Once I report it, I'll take the best result from there and experiment with smearing to see what we get from it.<br><br>Thanks again!<br>
<br>Giovani<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/15 Nicola Marzari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicola.marzari@materials.ox.ac.uk">nicola.marzari@materials.ox.ac.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thanks Prasenjit - a further comment, to be careful about.<br>
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In molecules/clusters, you could end up with a situation where<br>
the HOMO is degenerate, and you have fractional occupations,<br>
so the entropy term S is constant, and -TS is linear (T is deguass);<br>
this supposing the other states below the homo are separated<br>
from the HOMO by at least 2 or 3 times degauss.<br>
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What you want is the total energy - that is obtained by<br>
subtracting the term "-TS" to the "total energy" printed<br>
by the code (since the "total energy" printed by the code,<br>
when you use a smearing, is not the total energy, but the<br>
total free energy E-TS).<br>
<br>
nicola<br>
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On 2/14/11 5:22 AM, Prasenjit Ghosh wrote:<br>
> A small suggestion, try changing the smearing type, instead of using<br>
> mp, try using m-v or even simple gaussian is fine for small clusters.<br>
> Also, you should check the value of the contribution to total energy<br>
> from smearing (printed in the output after your calculations have<br>
> converged).......ideally for small clusters as yours, this should be<br>
> zero. This tells you that your smearing is physically small enough so<br>
> that the spurious effect of broadening becomes negligible.<br>
><br>
> With regards,<br>
><br>
> Prasenjit<br>
><br>
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