<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am using neb to calculate activation energy of hydrogen in unit cell of nickel. I have placed hydrogen in octahedral position and I am moving it to another octahedral position as shown below. My question is whether neb can calculates transition state which is tetrahedral site?. I have used a path_thr of 0.01eV with 7 images. I have calculated the activation energy which I am getting is 1.05 eV as shown in output, whereas the experiments indicate 0.42. </div><div><br></div><div><b>input </b></div><div><br></div><div><div>FIRST_IMAGE</div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal</div><div> Ni 0 0 0</div><div> Ni 0 0.5 0.5</div><div> Ni 0.5 0 0.5</div><div> Ni 0.5 0.5 0</div><div> H 0.5 0.5 0.5</div><div>LAST_IMAGE</div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal</div><div> Ni 0 0 0</div><div> Ni 0 0.5 0.5</div><div> Ni 0.5 0 0.5</div><div> Ni 0.5 0.5 0</div><div> H 0.0 0.5 0.0</div><div>END_POSITIONS</div><div><b>output</b></div><div><div> ------------------------------ iteration 56 ------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div> tcpu = 6675.4 self-consistency for image 1</div><div> tcpu = 6683.4 self-consistency for image 2</div><div> tcpu = 6764.1 self-consistency for image 3</div><div> tcpu = 6846.9 self-consistency for image 4</div><div> tcpu = 6948.8 self-consistency for image 5</div><div> tcpu = 7031.7 self-consistency for image 6</div><div> tcpu = 7113.1 self-consistency for image 7</div><div><br></div><div> activation energy (->) = 1.024248 eV</div><div> activation energy (<-) = 1.024248 eV</div><div><br></div><div> image energy (eV) error (eV/A) frozen</div><div><br></div><div> 1 -4690.3920838 0.000000 F</div><div> 2 -4690.3237895 0.006072 F</div><div> 3 -4689.7348781 0.005158 F</div><div> 4 -4689.3678358 0.006904 F</div><div> 5 -4689.7349752 0.004005 F</div><div> 6 -4690.3237535 0.006484 F</div><div> 7 -4690.3920838 0.000000 F</div><div><br></div><div> path length = 5.711 bohr</div><div> inter-image distance = 0.952 bohr</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Thanks<div>Ravi</div><div>Research assistant, univ of saskatchewan canada</div></div>
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