[Pw_forum] temperature rescaling for vc-md

[Giovanni La Penna]

I would suggest to heat the system slowly.
restart='from_scratch'
means that previous velocities are not loaded.
So going from zero (for a hopefully relaxed system) to 300 K,
with a time-step of 1 fs (if a remember correctly), may imply
a huge time to converge at each time step.
Even CP would not work properly this way: it runs, but temperature
oscillations become huge and the fake electron
kinetic energy would quickly increase, providing
an uncontrolled dynamics.
Other codes may have hidden controls on temperature,
time-steps, etc..

             Giovanni

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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Huiqun Zhou wrote:

> ...
> but the SCF convergence is always failed to reach after 20 or so ion steps
> no matter
> how I change mixing_beta from 0.5 to 0.05. One thing I noticed is that the
> temperature
> controling may be not in effect as the temperature remains as high as 6
> digits. I used
> ...