<div dir="auto"><div>In my case, I have a system of 54 zrcu atoms. i want to melt it at higher temperatures above 2000K and then i will do quenching to get amorphorse metallic alloys state.</div><div dir="auto">But shorter time step in cg method give more time consuming. So i choose dt = between 30 to 60 and in order to get equilibrium at high temperatures i took nstep = above 500.</div><div dir="auto">For equilibrium i have to run continue till 3 to 5 ps to get randomisation so it took large time to complete. </div><div dir="auto">Any suggestions ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you</div><div dir="auto">Jayraj Anadani</div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 15 Sep, 2022, 1:28 pm Kazume NISHIDATE, <<a href="mailto:nisidate@iwate-u.ac.jp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nisidate@iwate-u.ac.jp</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear, Jayraj Anadani<br>
<br>
> According to the user guide of cp.x we can use a larger time step<br>
> "dt" for electron dynamics = "cg" but for my system of 54 atoms<br>
> (metallic) at 2000 K temperature, it takes a lot of time to take 500<br>
> steps for 36 core, 72 nodes.<br>
<br>
The temperature 2000 K is very high and the ions must have high<br>
velocities. It means that the ionic positions at the next time step<br>
will largely different from the current ones. The convergence of the<br>
wave functions will need many 'cg' steps accordingly.<br>
<br>
So, you should set short 'dt' to ensure the first convergence of the<br>
wave functions.<br>
<br>
> 1) is there any way to balancing between timestep "dt" and number of<br>
> CP-MD steps "nstep" to achieve fast simulation ?,<br>
<br>
It is worth to try the shorter time intervals (dt) with fixing other<br>
parameters such as the total time steps.<br>
<br>
> 2) In comparison with VASP most of the simulation like NVT, NPT, NVE<br>
> took 3 to 5 ps to equilibrate at a certain temperature so is there<br>
> any strategy to speed up the calculation ?<br>
<br>
Generally, 3 to 5 ps is enough to achieve equilibrium state. But I do<br>
not understand your system and not sure if it is appropriate to your<br>
case.<br>
<br>
> 2022/09/15 16:18、Jayraj Anadani <<a href="mailto:jayrajanadani@spuvvn.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">jayrajanadani@spuvvn.edu</a>>のメール:<br>
> <br>
> Hello QE Community,<br>
> According to the user guide of cp.x we can use a larger time step "dt" for electron dynamics = "cg" but for my system of 54 atoms (metallic) at 2000 K temperature, it takes a lot of time to take 500 steps for 36 core, 72 nodes. <br>
<br>
西館数芽<br>
Kazume NISHIDATE Ph.D<br>
<br>
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