<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps"><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">Thank you for</span> <span class="hps">answers</span></span><br><br>I</span> <span class="hps">think the problem</span> <span class="hps">was resolved</span> <span class="hps">after</span> <span class="hps">increasing the size</span> <span class="hps">of the</span> <span class="hps">cell</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">2</span> <span class="hps">borh</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">so I</span> <span class="hps">understand the</span> <span class="hps">possible</span> <span class="hps">cause</span> <span class="hps">of the problem</span><span>:</span> <span class="hps">somehow the molecules</span> <span class="hps">were interacting</span> <span
 class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">its own</span> <span class="hps">image</span> <span class="hps">(that</span> <span class="hps">makes sense</span><span>?</span><span>)</span><span>,</span></span><span class="hps"> when I</span> <span class="hps">used a</span> <span class="hps">non-free program</span> <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps atn">(</span><span class="">HyperChem</span> <span class="hps">::::</span> <span class="hps">he performed</span> <span class="hps atn">a pre-</span><span class="">optimization</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">periodic</span> <span class="hps">boundary</span> <span class="hps">conditions</span><span class="hps"></span><span class="">) this problem has</span> <span class="hps">not</span> <span class="hps">happened</span><span class=""></span></span><span></span>. <span class="hps">Now, the question</span> <span class="hps">is to maintain</span> <span class="hps">a more
 realistic</span> density. <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""></span><span class="hps">However</span><span class="">, I'm</span> <span class="hps">relieved</span></span><br><br>Best regards<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Muito obrigado a todos.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
 background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Alex W. F.  Borges</span><br><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">Theoretical</span> <span class="hps">chemistry</span> <span class="hps">student</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Goiânia - Brazil</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted">
 <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Em Quinta-feira, 28 de Novembro de 2013 14:16, Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it> escreveu:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">  <div class="y_msg_container">Just in case: try with other pseudopotentials. I haven't <br clear="none">heard any complaints about HGH pseudopotentials, but I <br clear="none">cannot rule out problems in the conversion to UPF format.<br clear="none">have you tried simple systems first?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Paolo<br clear="none"><div class="yqt3034316734" id="yqtfd35884"><br clear="none">On Thu, 2013-11-28 at 05:43
 -0800, Alex wrote:<br clear="none">> Dear user QE.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I'm using cp.x to perform molecular dynamics of one of bulk water<br clear="none">> molecules with asparagine.<br clear="none">> Following protocol, I minimized the function of wave electronics with<br clear="none">> stationary nuclei.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> However, in the second stage, during the optimization of the geometry<br clear="none">> (with damp for electrons and ions) <br clear="none">> the water molecules take a non-real geometry, in which one side of the<br clear="none">> molecule, the OH distance becomes 1.98 angstrorn (A).<br clear="none">> The opposite side, has the normal size of the bond which is 0.97 A. I<br clear="none">> confess that since I started using it very often, <br clear="none">> and sometimes does not, but do not know why that. Sometimes
 change is<br clear="none">> functional and that resolved, sometimes not.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Incoherent bond distances of water after geometry optmization  >>>>><br clear="none">> H------------------O -----------H<br clear="none">> (sorry by bad graphic)<br clear="none">>                                    | 1.98 A|       |0.97 A|<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Can someone help me? <br clear="none">> Put my input to be analyzed.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> &CONTROL<br clear="none">>   title = 'Asp0s'<br
 clear="none">>   calculation = 'cp',<br clear="none">>   restart_mode = 'restart',<br clear="none">>   ndr = 51      !already minimized wf with sd for electrons and<br clear="none">> ions=none.<br clear="none">>   ndw = 52, <br clear="none">>   nstep  = 50000,<br clear="none">>   iprint = 1, <br clear="none">>   isave  = 10,<br clear="none">>   tstress = .TRUE.,<br clear="none">>   tprnfor = .TRUE.,<br clear="none">>   dt    = 5.0d0,<br clear="none">>   etot_conv_thr = 1.d-8,<br clear="none">>   ekin_conv_thr = 1.d-4,<br clear="none">>   forc_conv_thr = 1.d-4,<br clear="none">>   prefix = 'asp'<br clear="none">>   pseudo_dir = 'pseudo/'<br clear="none">>   outdir = './'<br clear="none">> /<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> &SYSTEM<br
 clear="none">>   ibrav = 1, <br clear="none">>   celldm(1) = 20, <br clear="none">>   celldm(2) = 0.0, <br clear="none">>   celldm(3) = 0.0, <br clear="none">>   celldm(4) = 0.0, <br clear="none">>   celldm(5) = 0.0, <br clear="none">>   celldm(6) = 0.0, <br clear="none">>   nat  = 122,<br clear="none">>   ntyp = 4,<br clear="none">>   ecutwfc = 70.0,<br clear="none">> /<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> &ELECTRONS<br clear="none">>   emass = 400.d0,<br clear="none">>   emass_cutoff = 2.5d0,<br clear="none">>   orthogonalization = 'ortho',<br clear="none">>   electron_dynamics = 'damp',<br clear="none">>   electron_damping = 0.1<br clear="none">>   ortho_max = 500,<br clear="none">>   !electron_temperature = 'not_controlled',<br clear="none">>   !electron_velocities =
 'zero'<br clear="none">> /<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> &IONS<br clear="none">>   ion_dynamics = 'damp',<br clear="none">>   ion_damping = 0.01,<br clear="none">>   !ion_nstepe = 10,<br clear="none">>   !ion_temperature = 'nose',<br clear="none">>   !tempw = 350,<br clear="none">>   !fnosep = 70,<br clear="none">>   !ion_velocities = 'zero'<br clear="none">> /<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> ATOMIC_SPECIES<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>  O 16.0d0  O.pbe-hgh.UPF<br clear="none">>  H 1.0d0   H.pbe-hgh.UPF <br clear="none">>  C 12.0d0  C.pbe-hgh.UPF <br clear="none">>  N 14.0d0  N.pbe-hgh.UPF<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}<br
 clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">>    C     -0.244144     1.783022    -1.335832 <br clear="none">>    C     -2.567204    -0.241389     5.783803 <br clear="none">>    N     -1.038197    -1.652589     5.418683 <br clear="none">>    C     -6.336078    -1.532299    -1.532562 <br clear="none">>    O     -5.122808    -0.424258    -2.279843 <br clear="none">>    N      3.987336     0.412822    -1.692063 <br clear="none">>    C      0.552282    -0.043486     0.368085 <br clear="none">>    O      1.73575      0.043368     0.476670 <br clear="none">>    O   
   1.126133    -1.181319     1.757325 <br clear="none">>    H     -0.844512    -1.781630    -0.580034 <br clear="none">>    H     -1.992345    -1.968023     0.581635 <br clear="none">>    H     -1.547999    -0.018973     1.618910 <br clear="none">>    H     -1.017864     1.793541     0.067225 <br clear="none">>    H     -2.180408     0.669590    -0.675764 <br clear="none">>    H      1.490782     1.185685    -2.387313 <br clear="none">>    H      1.070763     1.992771    -0.909308 <br clear="none">>    H      0.490233    -1.888235     1.458829 <br clear="none">>   
 O      5.160929     1.400891    -4.018523 <br clear="none">>    H      5.585303     1.845186    -4.767840 <br clear="none">>    H      5.903707     1.074826    -3.488501 <br clear="none">>    O      6.523016    -2.630620    -1.333026 <br clear="none">>    H      6.731773    -1.730291    -1.624223 <br clear="none">>    H      6.238875    -2.519196    -0.413345 <br clear="none">> ( ........)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Alex.<br clear="none">> Thanks to all.</div><br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Pw_forum mailing list<br clear="none">> <a
 shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Pw_forum@pwscf.org" href="mailto:Pw_forum@pwscf.org">Pw_forum@pwscf.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum" target="_blank">http://pwscf.org/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"> Paolo Giannozzi, Dept. Chemistry&Physics&Environment, <br clear="none"> Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br clear="none"> Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222 <div class="yqt3034316734" id="yqtfd27289"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote>  </div> </div>   </div> </div></body></html>