<div dir="ltr">Thank you a lot , David Foster, <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Giovanni Cantele. Appreciate your response </span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Anik Kumar Mondol</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Giovanni Cantele <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" target="_blank">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi, if you want to study a nanowire, I do not see the reason why to optimise the unit cell along x and y directions.<div>Either freeze these two degrees of freedom in vc-relax or, much simpler, change c parameter (lattice parameter along the z direction)</div><div>and evaluate E(c) (total energy as a function of c). A parabolic fit will help you in finding the lowest energy configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>Generally speaking, to establish whether the vacuum is enough, calculate in at least one case the property you are interested in for two different</div><div>values of the vacuum and see if any appreciable change is observed. Another check is that the band structure should be flat (no dispersion)</div><div>along x and y</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 29 Nov 2017, at 06:28, Anik Mondol <<a href="mailto:anikmondol1206@gmail.com" target="_blank">anikmondol1206@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1988088013737124077Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Users,<br></div>I am doing a DFT calculation of GaN nanowires, While designing the nanowire (approximately 10 A diameter) , I had added around 10 A of vacuum on x and y direction. Now I have performed a vc-relax calculation before band calculation, the cell volume has shrunk . The vacuum has decreased . Now to make sure the results don't be affected by the identical replicas , at least how much vacuum is needed ? Now, that the vacuum has shrunk, will that impose any effect on results in this respects. I mean, How can I be sure this vacuum is enough?<br><br></div>Mondol Anik Kumar <br></div>Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology <br></div></div></div><span class="">
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