<div dir="ltr">Dear Xavier<div><font face="georgia, serif">Thank you for the detailed information. Yes I have already used pseudo potential from the </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">PseudoDojo library and observed exactly what you have described. After the VC-relax the verification the verification scf calculation showed a completely different pressure tensor. I did not increase the cut-off till 200 Ry as you suggested but stopped at 90 Ry. Will give it a try with 200 Ry. Thanks. Regards</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">K Ramesh Kumar</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">Assistant Professor</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">GITAM, University</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">Vizag, India</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:53 PM Ramesh Kumar Kamadurai <<a href="mailto:rkamadur@gitam.edu">rkamadur@gitam.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">Dear users<div>I am trying to calculate el-Ph coupling constant and other properties for a superconductor. The input file is attached. I am a bit stuck with VC-Relax calculation as the system is not able to stabilize at 0.0 kbar. I followed all the suggestions given in forum</div><div>1. Increased Cut-off to maximum</div><div>2. Tried USPP,NC, Mixed and currently running with PBE-Sol</div><div>3. Sequentially done 2 VC Relax calculation but i am not able to sort out the issue.</div><div>&CONTROL<br> calculation = "vc-relax"<br> etot_conv_thr = 4.00000e-05<br> forc_conv_thr = 1.00000e-04<br> max_seconds = 1.72800e+05<br> nstep = 100<br> outdir = "/home/sjacobs/tmp/"<br> prefix = "PDZ-VCRELAX"<br> pseudo_dir = "C:\Users\RAMESH\.burai\.pseudopot"<br> tprnfor = .TRUE.<br> tstress = .TRUE.<br> verbosity = "high"<br>/<br><br>&SYSTEM<br> a = 6.36512e+00<br> degauss = 7.34986e-03<br> ecutrho = 6.40000e+02<br> ecutwfc = 8.00000e+01<br> ibrav = 2<br> nat = 4<br> nosym = .FALSE.<br> nspin = 1<br> ntyp = 3<br> occupations = "smearing"<br> smearing = "marzari-vanderbilt"<br>/<br><br>&ELECTRONS<br> conv_thr = 8.00000e-10<br> electron_maxstep = 80<br> mixing_beta = 4.00000e-01<br> startingpot = "atomic"<br> startingwfc = "atomic+random"<br>/<br><br>&IONS<br> ion_dynamics = "bfgs"<br>/<br><br>&CELL<br> cell_dofree = "all"<br> cell_dynamics = "bfgs"<br> press = 0.00000e+00<br> press_conv_thr = 5.00000e-01<br>/<br><br>K_POINTS {automatic}<br>12 12 12 0 0 0<br><br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>Ga 69.72300 Ga.pbesol-dnl-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>Pd 106.42000 Pd_ONCV_PBEsol-1.0.upf<br>Zr 91.22400 zr_pbesol_v1.uspp.F.UPF<br><br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS {crystal}<br>Zr 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000<br>Ga 0.493162 0.493162 0.493162<br>Pd 0.739743 0.739743 0.739743<br>Pd 0.246581 0.246581 0.246581<br><br>The output stress is given below</div><div>entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= 2.67<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.41<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.82<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= 0.56<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= 0.13<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.08<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.23<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.35<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.50<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.63<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.77<br> entering subroutine stress ...<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.83<br></div><div>My question is </div><div>What is the optimal pressure value to avoid negative frequencies for electron phonon calculation ? </div><div>Is there any mistake in my input file ?</div><div>Thanks in advance</div><div>Regards</div><div>Ramesh</div><div>Asst. Professor</div><div>GITAM University</div><div>Vizag, India</div><div><br></div></div>
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