<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Because of your question without any details, I can only answer it generally. For getting convergency lattice parameter by energy-volume method, you can read the paper, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Acta Materialia 54 (2006) 1641-1657</span>, in which the author discussed that issue by Wien2k code. Or, if you want to use "vc-relax", you'd better decrease the convergence threshold to very small number with convergence cutoff energy, k-mesh and so on.<br>One more to be noted is that the minimum energy configuration corresponds to zero force, but minimum enthalpy corresponds to zero force and stress. In "vc-relax" case, we try to find zero both for force and stress instead of only for total energy.<br><br><div>--<br>GAO Zhe<br>CMC Lab, MSE, SNU, Seoul, S.Korea<br>
</div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2011-09-14 17:14:08,"kondaiah samudrala" <konda.physics@gmail.com> wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Dear all,<br><br> I am doing test calculations for orthorhombic
layered compounds having van der waals forces. i calculated the volume
by varying c/a, b/a and a with energy and taken the minimum values of
c/a, b/a and a. But my volume change is surprisingly 2% with
experimental ( even van der waals forces having). I tried with the
"vc-relax" for same system i found 12% volume change with experimental.I
tried with psedopotentials also and the results are same. <br>
<br>I am very thankful any to solve this problem. <br><br>Thanks in advance<br><br>S.Appalakondaiah<br>Research Scholar<br>University of hyderabad<br>Hyderabad<br>India<br>
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