<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Ehsan,<br></div>As <span name="Sanjeev Gupta" class="">Sanjeev pointed out, it is a good to attach your error message when asking for help.<br><br></span></div><span name="Sanjeev Gupta" class="">After running your example, I get the following error message:<br>
</span><br><span name="Sanjeev Gupta" class=""><span name="Sanjeev Gupta" class="">.....................................................................................................<br></span> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>
     Error in routine  read_namelists (1):<br>      reading namelist cell<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>     stopping ...<br>.....................................................................................................<br>
</span><div><div><div><br></div><div>Which raises due to the fact that you are performing a cell relax calculation, but you have not included the &CELL section (an empty one is OK too). You can skip it for a normal "relax" or "scf" calculation, but not for "vc-relax".<br>
</div><div>So modify your input as:<br>.....................................................................................................<br>...<br>&IONS<br>/<br>&CELL<br>/<br>CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}<br> 9.83804859    0.00000000    0.00000000<br>
 4.91902429    8.52000000    0.00000000<br> 0.00000000    0.00000000   12.00000000<br>...<br>.....................................................................................................<br><br></div><div>Let me add you a couple of suggestions for your input.<br>
<br></div><div>- Your conv_thr is way too big. 1.D-6 should be enough for a relaxation, and if you want higher accuracy for the electronic properties, just run an scf on the last structure with 1.D-8.<br><br></div><div>- When you run a cell relaxation, you should use about 3 times the recommended ecutwfc and ecutrho, so yours is way too small in any case.<br>
<br></div><div>- The pseudo potential file in the QE website you are using does not provide any suggestions for minimum ecutwfc and ecutrho, so I just used a simple script to check it:<br><br><br> -10.7675 ++-----+------+-------+------+------+------+-------+------+-----++<br>
              +      +     './energies.ecutwfc.C.pw91-van_ak.UPF' u 1:2 ****** +<br>              ****                                                                       |<br>  -10.768 ++  **                                                                 ++<br>
              |        *                                                                  |<br>-10.7685 ++      **                                                              ++<br>              |           *                                                               |<br>
              |             **                                                            |<br>  -10.769 ++             *                                                        ++<br>              |                 *                                                         |<br>
              |                                                                            |<br>-10.7695 ++               ****                                                   ++<br>              |                       ***                                                 |<br>
              |                          *                                                 |<br>   -10.77 ++                        **************                              ++<br>              |                                          *******                          |<br>
 -10.7705 ++                                              ********              ++<br>              |                                                           *******         |<br>               +      +      +       +      +      +      +       +       ********<br>
  -10.771 ++-----+------+-------+------+------+------+-------+------+-----++<br>            30     40     50      60     70     80     90     100    110    120<br><br></div><div>(It does not look very clear, but you can run this script by yourself and check it in better quality, it only takes a few minutes to run. <a href="http://www.larrucea.eu/checking-optimum-cutoff-qe/">http://www.larrucea.eu/checking-optimum-cutoff-qe/</a>)<br>
<br></div><div>So, you should use an ecutwfc of around 110 Ry for your normal calculations and about 330 Ry for the cell relaxations.<br><br></div><div>  Best regards<br><br></div><div>   Julen<br></div><div><br><br><br><br>
<br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:physics.skgupta@gmail.com" target="_blank">physics.skgupta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">can you post the error?<div><br></div><div>bests</div><div>sanjeev</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, ehsan targholi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:targholi@gmail.com" target="_blank">targholi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><b>hi<br></b></font><span><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><b>dear all, thanks  for reply to my earlier question. i want to optimize graphene , but i have problem in vc-relax calculation. my input is :<br>



<br><br style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><font style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">&control<br>  calculation = 'vc-relax' ,<br>  restart_mode='from_scratch'<br>  prefix='gs32'<br>  wf_collect =.true<br>  pseudo_dir = '/home/ehsan/espresso/upf_files/',<br>



  outdir ='/home/ehsan/espresso/tmp/'<br>/<br>&system<br>  ibrav=0<br>  nat=32<br>  ntyp=1<br>  nbnd=128<br>  ecutwfc=45<br>  ecutrho=450<br>/<br>&electrons<br>  mixing_beta=0.7<br>  conv_thr = 1.0e-12<br>



/<br>&IONS<br>/<br>CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}<br> 9.83804859    0.00000000    0.00000000<br> 4.91902429    8.52000000    0.00000000<br> 0.00000000    0.00000000   12.00000000<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>C 12.011 C.pw91-van_ak.UPF<br>



ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}<br> C                  3.07439018    1.77499927    0.00160788<br> C                  0.61487804    0.35499985    0.00032158<br> C                  5.53390233    1.77499927    0.00160788<br> C                  7.99341448    1.77499927    0.00160788<br>



 C                 10.45292662    1.77499927    0.00160788<br> C                  3.07439018    0.35499985    0.00032158<br> C                  5.53390233    0.35499985    0.00032158<br> C                  7.99341448    0.35499985    0.00032158<br>



 C                  4.30414626    3.90499840    0.00353734<br> C                  5.53390233    6.03499752    0.00546680<br> C                  6.76365840    8.16499665    0.00739626<br> C                  1.84463411    2.48499898    0.00225103<br>



 C                  3.07439018    4.61499811    0.00418049<br> C                  4.30414626    6.74499723    0.00610995<br> C                  6.76365840    3.90499840    0.00353734<br> C                  7.99341448    6.03499752    0.00546680<br>



 C                  9.22317055    8.16499665    0.00739626<br> C                  9.22317055    3.90499840    0.00353734<br> C                 10.45292662    6.03499752    0.00546680<br> C                 11.68268270    8.16499665    0.00739626<br>



 C                 11.68268270    3.90499840    0.00353734<br> C                 12.91243877    6.03499752    0.00546680<br> C                 14.14219484    8.16499665    0.00739626<br> C                  4.30414626    2.48499898    0.00225103<br>



 C                  5.53390233    4.61499811    0.00418049<br> C                  6.76365840    6.74499723    0.00610995<br> C                  6.76365840    2.48499898    0.00225103<br> C                  7.99341448    4.61499811    0.00418049<br>



 C                  9.22317055    6.74499723    0.00610995<br> C                  9.22317055    2.48499898    0.00225103<br> C                 10.45292662    4.61499811    0.00418049<br> C                 11.68268270    6.74499723    0.00610995<br>



K_POINTS {automatic}<br>16 16 1 0 0 0</font><br><br></b></font></span></div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><b>but espresso give error. please help me to insert correct input for variable relax calculation.<span><font color="#888888"><br>



<br></font></span></b></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><font><span><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>ehsan targholi <br></b></font></span></font></div>
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