<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:degliesposti@bo.imm.cnr.it">degliesposti@bo.imm.cnr.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear developers,<br>
<br>
I have a very basic question, that I had never realized so far and has<br>
been asked by a students of mine...<br>
<br>
If I set to .TRUE. the logical fields tstress and tprnfor in the<br>
&CONTROL stanza of the pw.x input during a pure scf calculation,<br>
how are the forces on the ions calculated? What do the displayed<br>
values represent if only a scf calculation is performed and<br>
the ionic coordinates are not allowed to change?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>since stefano already answered the first part, here an answer</div><div>to the second part. the forces and stress reported represent</div>
<div>the instantaneous forces and stress of the given conformation.</div><div>no more, no less. they are uniquely defined by the atom positions</div><div>and the electronic structure method (and its parameters) and </div>
<div>that is it. no motion needs to be considered.</div><div><br></div><div>ciao,</div><div> axel.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Thanks for your time.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer <br><a href="mailto:akohlmey@gmail.com" target="_blank">akohlmey@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/1wk0" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/1wk0</a><br>
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