[Pw_forum] vc-relax

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at democritos.it
Wed Mar 21 09:16:31 CET 2012


On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 10:23 +0800, Cao TF wrote:

> I want to do the 'vc-relax' calculation of bilayer structure of graphene and BN. And only the lattice constant a, b are allowed to change in the relaxation. So I set cell_dofree = 'xy' , but when the calculation finished, the distance of of the vacuum between different by layers also changed. 

I am not sure that the constraints are implemented for all minimization
algorithms. Could you please provide an input and the corresponding 
output?

P.

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Paolo Giannozzi, IOM-Democritos and University of Udine, Italy





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