<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear Paolo,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Thanks for the information. The input velocities seem to be OK when we use the units of bohr/Rytime when Ry=hbar/Ry. Hopefully this is correct. After I sent the email I finally read the code more carefully and realized that the velocity is calculated internally as vel(t)=(tau(t+dt)-tau(t-dt)/(2dt). Since the tau values are in the output, we could then find the velocity values in postprocessing. Thanks again. Natalie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">N. A. W. Holzwarth email: <a href="mailto:natalie@wfu.edu" target="_blank">natalie@wfu.edu</a><div>Department of Physics web: <a href="http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie" target="_blank">http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie</a></div><div>Wake Forest University phone: 1-336-758-5510 </div><div>Winston-Salem, NC 27109 USA office: Rm. 300 Olin Physical Lab</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:31 PM Paolo Giannozzi <<a href="mailto:p.giannozzi@gmail.com">p.giannozzi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Natalie</div><div><br></div><div>I am not aware of any way to monitor the velocities during a MD run with the PWscf code. It uses plain Verlet (not velocity Verlet) and this is likely the reason why velocities are a little bit neglected. Thank you for the info about the existence of "ion_velocities='from_input'". I just added it to the documentation. Does anybody know about the units for velocities? Should be Ry a.u., can anybody confirm?</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 3:29 AM Holzwarth, Natalie <<a href="mailto:natalie@wfu.edu" target="_blank">natalie@wfu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dear quantum espresso community,</div><div class="gmail_default"> We would like to monitor the ion velocities during an MD run of pw.x and cannot find appropriate key words for that in the documentation. Would we need to modify the code in order to output the velocities at each time step or is there another way? Similarly, we think that we figured out how to set initial velocities in the input file by adding " ion_velocities = 'from_input'", in the &IONS section and adding " ATOMIC_VELOCITIES" followed by a list for each ion. We could not find this in the documentation, so hopefully it is correct. It is a very nice feature (just in case you are tracking subroutine popularities). Thanks kindly for advice on this. Sincerely, Natalie</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">N. A. W. Holzwarth email: <a href="mailto:natalie@wfu.edu" target="_blank">natalie@wfu.edu</a><div>Department of Physics web: <a href="http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie" target="_blank">http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie</a></div><div>Wake Forest University phone: 1-336-758-5510 </div><div>Winston-Salem, NC 27109 USA office: Rm. 300 Olin Physical Lab</div></div></div></div>
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