<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your response.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 6:59 PM Kazume NISHIDATE <<a href="mailto:nisidate@iwate-u.ac.jp">nisidate@iwate-u.ac.jp</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">Dear Jayraj;<br>
<br>
> the temperature fluctuations are too high compared to the other<br>
> literature.<br>
<br>
Because you are using "thousands of atoms" in LAMMPS while you are using<br>
only the 128 atoms in QE.<br>
<br>
> MD simulation of thousands of atoms in LAMMPS<br>
…….<br>
> On my metallic system, which has 128 atoms,<br>
<br>
<br>
You must understand the concept of ensemble average.<br>
A good text was introduced by Nicola:<br>
<br>
> 3) not sure where to start - you need to learn and understand MD - a<br>
> good start is if you google "ercolessi md primer"<br>
<br>
<br>
In addition to his elemental comments, I want to add some trivial<br>
things.<br>
<br>
> "conv_thr" (i.e. ecutwfc=5 or 10) below a minimum cutoff of<br>
> pseudopotential? So that I can get the next ionic position very<br>
<br>
Suppose you have a potential curvature having a shape like a cup and <br>
a ball is falling along its curvature from its edge. The ball will<br>
perform oscillating behavior continually if there is no energy loss by<br>
a friction (energy conservation).<br>
<br>
In a primitive molecular dynamics calculation (MD), total energy<br>
(kinetic+potential) must be preserved in the long time scale (say<br>
10000 time steps) when the system does not have a restriction on its<br>
kinetics (like temperature regulation). <br>
<br>
The "ecutwfc=5" apparently insufficient to evaluate the potential<br>
curvature and hence your MD calculation will collapse. It is <br>
equivalent to a MD in LAMMPS with random interaction potentials.<br>
<br>
Use the default cutoff energy and monitor the fluctuation of total<br>
energies in the MD runs with changing the dt (time increment value) to<br>
find the appropriate (largest) dt with preserving the total energies.<br>
<br>
And you can also consider a gamma-point only calculation if your <br>
system is large enough.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
西館数芽<br>
Kazume NISHIDATE Ph.D<br>
<br>
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