<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear QE community,<div>I apologize if this topic has been already discussed in the past.</div><div>I'm using QE 6.4.1.</div><div>I'd like to perform vc-relax calculations, but keeping strictly fixed the symmetry of the crystal.</div><div>I supposed that the keyword</div><div>cell_dofree='volume'</div><div>should be the right option to use, but pw.x exit complaining that cell_dofree='volume' can be used only if ibrav=1.</div><div>Is there any technical reasons for this?</div><div>I was supposing that simply changing only celldm(1) should work.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried, as alternative, cell_dynamics='damp-w', which apparently keep almost the symmetry (but not strictly), but it shows an extremely slow convergence (in my molecular crystal vc-relax converge in 17 bfgs steps, while the damp-w vc-relax calculation is currently running the 127th step).</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Carlo</div><div><br></div><div>P.S.: I suppose that simple deleting the below bold rows in cell_base.f90 (subroutine init_dofree) would not work..</div><div><br></div><div><div> CASE ( 'volume' )</div><div> !CALL errore(' init_dofree ', &</div><div> ! ' cell_dofree = '//TRIM(cell_dofree)//' not yet implemented ', 1 )</div><div> <b> IF ( ibrav /= 1 ) THEN</b></div><div><b> CALL errore('cell_dofree', 'Isotropic expansion is only allowed for ibrav=1; i.e. for simple cubic', 1)</b></div><div><b> END IF</b></div><div> iforceh = 0</div><div> iforceh(1,1) = 1</div><div> iforceh(2,2) = 1</div><div> iforceh(3,3) = 1</div><div> isotropic = .TRUE.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><pre>------------------------------------------------------------
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