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<div>I sucsessfully calculated equation of state for CaF2 by varying celldm(1) in a loop.</div>
<div>then fitting the EV data to murnaghan EOS to get a parabola like plot.</div>
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<div>Now I try to calculate EV data for CaTiO3 (Pnma space group) by the same method.</div>
<div>But, no matter how large the celldm(1) is (keeping the b/a and c/a fixed), the energy still goes down instead of going up, with no parabola like behavior.</div>
<div>I assume this is wrong, because when distances between atoms are large (expansion of unit cell), this state should be higher</div>
<div>in energy than the equilibrium volume state, just like when compressing the unitcell the energy goes up because of repulsion. </div>
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<div>Can anybody tell me why is this happening ? Could it be a bug ?</div>
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<div>P.S</div>
<div>The pseudopotentials i'm using are all PBE and verified with other systems so they should be OK.</div>
<div>There are 20 atoms in the primitive unit cell. I'm using a 8x8x8 k-point grid with 180 Ry cutoff for wavefunction.</div>
<div>I've opened the structure in Xcrysden and it looks OK, no weird things.</div>
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