<div dir="ltr"><div>You already solved the "issue": the variable-cell optimization is done with the plane-wave basis set for the starting cell, while the last step is done with the plane-wave basis set for the final cell. The two differ by a little bit (unless the cutoff is so high to guarantee perfect convergence in both cases). Search for "Pulay stress"in the literature.<br><br></div>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Subhodip Chatterjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subhopcqc@gmail.com" target="_blank">subhopcqc@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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Paolo,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I want to add few more informations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">After the vc-relax calculation, the magnitude of pressure is -<b>0.02 kbar</b>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default">And what I mentioned in my last post (i.e. <b>3.61 kbar</b>) is the pressure after the final SCF calculation.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It will be a big help if you can guide me to solve this issue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Subhodip</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Subhodip Chatterjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subhopcqc@gmail.com" target="_blank">subhopcqc@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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">INPUT<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>press = 0.001<br></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>press_conv_thr = 0.0001</b><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">OUTPUT<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b>P (kbar) = 3.61</b><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Subhodip <br></div></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.giannozzi@gmail.com" target="_blank">p.giannozzi@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"><div>"A lot" = how much? the default tolerance on pressure convergence is 0.5 KBar<br><br><br></div>Paolo</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Subhodip Chatterjee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subhopcqc@gmail.com" target="_blank">subhopcqc@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><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear PWSCF developers,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Is there any restriction in the code for the "press" (target pressure) input?<br><br>I successfully get my vc-relax calculations converged to desired pressure values as high as several terapascal, however, when I set a low enough value, e.g. 1 bar (i.e. press = 0.001), the final pressure in the output differs a lot!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Best regards<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Subhodip<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subhodip Chatterjee</b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Senior Research Fellow<br></b></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Department of Chemistry<br></b></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>University of Calcutta</b><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Kolkata, India</b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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