[Pw_forum] ecut dependence of symmetry operations(?)
Madhura Marathe
madhura at jncasr.ac.in
Tue Jan 5 17:04:23 CET 2010
Thanks Kun Yin and Lorenezo.
I checked the output files and saw the warnings related to FFT at the
start of the output file for which I get less number of symmetry
operations.
Best wishes for new year,
Madhura.
> Quoting Madhura Marathe <madhura at jncasr.ac.in>:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> While performing convergence calculations w.r.t energy cut-off for a
>> bulk
>> system, I found that the number of symmetry operations detected by a
>> code
>> is different depending on the value of ecut. This is very surprising
>> because for the same system, the symmetries should not depend on the
>> ecut
>> value.
>
>
> Dear Madhura,
> your question is the complementary one to a Frequentedly-Asked
> Question (FAQ), when the code suppresses some symmetry operation
> because they are incompatible with the FFT grid a warning is issued.
> See this page <http://quantum-espresso.org/user_guide/node57.html> for
> more details.
>
> regards
>
>
>
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