<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I want to let the structure reach the desired temperature, i.e., 300 K, and then get the trajectory from constant MD based on the thermal equilibrium structure. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">How should I do that?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Do I just need to set the IONS tag in the QE input like this:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"> &IONS</div><div class="gmail_default"> ion_dynamics='verlet',</div><div class="gmail_default"> ion_temperature='rescale-v',</div><div class="gmail_default"> tempw=300,</div><div class="gmail_default"> nraise=4,</div><div><br></div><div>Then I need to disregard the initial part of the trajectory, and use the trajectory with temperature equilibrated around 300 K?</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any other points I need to pay attention to?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Wei</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" size="2">Wei Li</font></b><br>PhD student</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">State Key Lab of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry<br>Institute of Theoretical Chemistry<br>Jilin University<br>Changchun, 130023<br>P.R. China<br></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:liwei0099@gmail.com" target="_blank">liwei0099@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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