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<p>Hello all,</p>
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<p>I am trying to understand the ESM example in the QE github repo.
It says in the description that the example is divided in three
parts but it doesn't mention it the parts depend on oneanother. Is
this the case? I.e. if you don't do the first part of the example
then the rest cannot be done?</p>
<p>Another point of confusion if the FCP part of the calculation. Is
this a 'relax' type of calculation or can it be performed on a
regular 'scf' run? <br>
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<p>Also this requirement of a slab to be centered in z=0. It would
have been very informative if the example didn't use a 1 atom thin
layer of Al for the slab. What is the vacuum region requirement
for such a calculation?</p>
<p>I am trying to study a large 1x1xN structure consisting of
SrRuO3/PbTiO3/SrTiO3/PbTiO3/SrRuO3 layers of different
thicknesses. I would like to consider the 'bc1' case where the
structure is surrounded by semi infinite metal electrodes. Do I
still need a vaccum region for this case? Or I just construct a
1x1xN supercell centered around z=0 and se the esm_w parameter to
0.</p>
<p>Since my structure involves PbTiO3 which is a ferroelectric with
a large bulk polarization, can I use FCP to obtain a correct
Hartree potential for this case?</p>
<p>A simple 'scf' calculation on this 1x1xN structure surrounded by
vacuum regions, does not converge even after hundreds of steps and
no combination of cutoff, k points, mixing beta etc solves this
problem. I suspect the problem lies with the effect of
polarization and a possible solution would be ESM method (although
I expect will take quite a long time).<br>
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<p>Regards,</p>
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<p>Lucian</p>
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<p>P.S.: since the structure is quite large I am not including here
an input file but I can provide it upon request. <br>
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<div class="moz-signature"><b>Dr. Lucian Dragos Filip</b><br>
National Institute of Materials Physics<br>
Atomistilor str. 405A, PO Box MG. 7<br>
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Bucharest, Romania<br>
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