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    <p>CP dynamics requires the existence of a gap in the electronic
      spectrum.</p>
    <p>you can force cp.x to minimize the electronic state by using 
      "cg" as electron_dynamics method.  I would use pw.x to perform
      BOMD but if you are more familiar with cp.x you can try that.</p>
    <p>stefano<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/08/22 15:47, Jayraj Anadani
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAFZg28sj8qjYrbi5RVN4jdtFW14TJuddgcfwjmPX=j-7M9GoYw@mail.gmail.com">
      
      <div dir="ltr">Hello sir,
        <div>I have one more question regarding this : can I perform the
          cpmd simulation method using cp.x in quantum espresso to
          simulate the metallic glass system ? I did this cpmd but I
          couldn't control the kinetic energy of the
          electrons because my system is amorphorse metallic and
          according to CP user guide the cpmd is not performing well
          with amorphous metallic systems. or is BOMD using pwscf by
          doing the reduce-T option is good for studying metallic glass
          ?</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>kindly suggest a feasible method to do DFT study of
          metallic glass alloys using quantum espresso package.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>thank you</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>regards</div>
        <div>jayraj anadani</div>
      </div>
      <br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 10:04
          PM Jayraj Anadani <<a href="mailto:jayrajanadani@spuvvn.edu" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">jayrajanadani@spuvvn.edu</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="auto">I appreciate your help
            <div dir="auto">Thank you very much sir.</div>
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          <br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Aug, 2022, 7:16
              pm Stefano de Gironcoli, <<a href="mailto:degironc@sissa.it" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">degironc@sissa.it</a>>
              wrote:<br>
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                <p>I would take out small clusters from your 10000 cells
                  (possibly saturate with H atoms if you cut covalent
                  bonds), not relax (with the exception of relaxing the
                  extra H atoms you added to saturate), compute atomic
                  PDOS of the central atom(s) and verify that for
                  increasing number of atoms in the clusters these
                  quantities stabilize and converge.</p>
                <p>if a significant size dependence results you may want
                  to play with the environ feature (<a href="http://www.quantum-environ.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.quantum-environ.org/</a>) 
                  to minimize boundary effects<br>
                </p>
                <p>stefano<br>
                </p>
                <div>On 26/08/22 15:01, Jayraj Anadani wrote:<br>
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                  <div dir="auto">I have one amorphorse metallic system
                    of 10000 atoms in which several clusters are in it.
                    I want to calculate atomic bonding and electronic
                    interaction through finding DOS/PDOS and Charge
                    analysis of a small cluster part of a large
                    amorphorse metallic system.
                    <div dir="auto">My cluster size is upto 13 to 25
                      atoms which is part of large md simulation.</div>
                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto">So can i have to do relaxation or i
                      can directly do scf calculation with restricted
                      parameter ?</div>
                    <div dir="auto"><br>
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto">Thank you </div>
                  </div>
                  <br>
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Aug,
                      2022, 6:04 pm Stefano de Gironcoli, <<a href="mailto:degironc@sissa.it" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">degironc@sissa.it</a>>
                      wrote:<br>
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                        <p>I dont think that a 10-20 atom cluster
                          configuration extracted from a 10000 condensed
                          phase has anything to do with the same system
                          at 300 K.</p>
                        <p>possibly some electronic properties of the
                          central molecule may be similar to the
                          corresponding properties in the condensed
                          phase but no guarantee. <br>
                        </p>
                        <p>if you relax or perform md for the cluster
                          you loose your (tiny) connection with the
                          original cell. <br>
                        </p>
                        <div>I fail to understand what is your problem
                          and what you would like to compute/understand
                          <br>
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                        <div><br>
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                        <div>stefano<br>
                        </div>
                        <div><br>
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                        <div>On 26/08/22 13:52, Jayraj Anadani wrote:<br>
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                          <div dir="ltr">Thank you sir, for your reply
                            <div>but <span>I have one particular
                                molecular system of 10-20 atoms which I
                                am getting from a simulation of a large
                                atom (around 10000 atoms) at a 300K
                                temperature from a molecular dynamic
                                simulation (LAMMPS). and I also did
                                optimization of that MD structure which
                                is amorphous metallic glass. Now,</span>
                              <div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif"> Can I do dft study of a
                                    small part of a single molecule of a
                                    large MD simulation(~10000 atoms) ?</font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">till now i did below
                                    things but i am bit confused which
                                    way is best way to study DFT . i
                                    also dis AIMD/CPMD but for metallic
                                    glass CPMD doesn't work good with
                                    PAW PP.</font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">so,</font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">1. Can I do direct SCF
                                    calculation(without relax) by giving
                                    a condition of <b>forc_conv_thr</b> and <b>tot_conv_thr</b> with
                                    creating a vacuum</font><span>(for a
                                    non-periodic system)</span><span> of
                                    around 15 Angstrom to converge
                                    properly. </span><b>OR</b></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">2. I should do the RELAX
                                    calculation with vacuum and then go
                                    to the <b>scf</b> calculation to
                                    find the total energy and then <b>nscf</b>. </font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif"><br>
                                  </font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">***questions:</font></div>
                                <div><font face="arial narrow,
                                    sans-serif">1. what if I relax a
                                    system and position is changed a
                                    bit(which is obvious) to minimize
                                    the total energy but that energy is
                                    at zero kelvin dft calculation and I
                                    want to study the system at 300K. So
                                    how can small parts of a
                                    structure reflect large MD
                                    simulation structural properties?</font></div>
                                <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></div>
                                <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you</span></div>
                              </div>
                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">regards </span></div>
                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></div>
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                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">jayraj anadani</span></div>
                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Ph.D. Research scholar
Department of physics</span></div>
                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">sardar patel university</span></div>
                              <div><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">india</span></div>
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                            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri,
                              Aug 26, 2022 at 5:00 PM Stefano de
                              Gironcoli <<a href="mailto:degironc@sissa.it" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">degironc@sissa.it</a>>
                              wrote:<br>
                            </div>
                            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
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                              rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear
                              JAYRAJ ANADANI,<br>
                              <br>
                                calculation="scf"  corresponds to a
                              minimization of the total energy <br>
                              at fixed atomic positions. you chose where
                              to put the ions. the code <br>
                              does its best to return the corresponding
                              energy.<br>
                              <br>
                                calculaiton="relax" corresponds to a
                              series of scf calculations, <br>
                              followed by forces evaluation and geometry
                              update to minimize the energy <br>
                              of the system. The code does its best to
                              converge to a minimum (non <br>
                              necessarily the global minimum) in the GS
                              potential energy surface.<br>
                              <br>
                                there is no temperature in any of these
                              calculations.<br>
                              <br>
                                if you want to simulate the system at
                              finite (classical) temperature <br>
                              for the atoms you should perform MD
                              simlations<br>
                              <br>
                              stefano<br>
                              <br>
                              On 26/08/22 05:02, Jayraj Anadani wrote:<br>
                              > Dear QE<br>
                              >               I put H2O molecular
                              atoms small far apart from each <br>
                              > other within large supercell so that
                              the periodic image of the H2O do <br>
                              > not interact with each other and run
                              a scf calculation my convergence <br>
                              > done successfully with good amount of
                              accuracy upto 10^-9. But it is <br>
                              > not reflecting original H2O molecule
                              at 300 Kelvin...but when i <br>
                              > relaxing these atoms and then did scf
                              calculation they are reflecting <br>
                              > H2O at 300k by observing bond angel
                              and length.. how ? And my question is<br>
                              > 1) scf is also doing calculation
                              using iteration method algorithm by <br>
                              > using electronic densities at ground
                              state so why they converge when <br>
                              > two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen
                              atom are not at appropriate <br>
                              > distance.still scf converge how ?<br>
                              > 2) also by doing relax calculation
                              all of sudden two hydrogen and one <br>
                              > oxygen come closer and they formed a
                              bond and bond angel which is <br>
                              > reflect 300k H2O molecule structure.
                              So how two hydrogen and one <br>
                              > oxygen atoms knows during relaxation
                              that i have to make structure at <br>
                              > a room temperature?<br>
                              ><br>
                              ><br>
                              > Thank you<br>
                              > Regards<br>
                              ><br>
                              > JAYRAJ ANADANI<br>
                              > Ph.D Research scholar<br>
                              > Department of physics<br>
                              > Sardar Patel University<br>
                              > Anand,Gujarat,<br>
                              > India<br>
                              ><br>
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              people and expresses its concerns about the devastating<br>
              effects that the Russian military offensive has on their<br>
              country and on the free and peaceful scientific, cultural,<br>
              and economic cooperation amongst peoples<br>
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The Quantum ESPRESSO community stands by the Ukrainian
people and expresses its concerns about the devastating
effects that the Russian military offensive has on their
country and on the free and peaceful scientific, cultural,
and economic cooperation amongst peoples
_______________________________________________
Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.max-centre.eu">www.max-centre.eu</a>)
users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org">users@lists.quantum-espresso.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users">https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a></pre>
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