<div dir="ltr">Dear Kondrin<div>Thank you for your suggestion. I actually followed the S Ponce lecture notes from the following link to calculate el-ph coupling constant. </div><div><a href="https://indico.ictp.it/event/8301/session/96/contribution/534/material/0/0.pdf">https://indico.ictp.it/event/8301/session/96/contribution/534/material/0/0.pdf</a>. But in your message here <a href="https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2022-September/049463.html">https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/pipermail/users/2022-September/049463.html</a> you suggest to include la2f = .true for q2r, matdyn.x files as well. After that we should post process the files to get lambda value without using lambda.x. Am I right in understanding your message clearly. ?? <br></div><div>Regards</div><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><div><br></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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