[Pw_forum] virtual.x and VCA problem

Yue-Wen Fang yuewen.fang at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 01:52:19 CET 2013


Dear Prof. Dr. Paolo,

Thank you for your reply. In fact, I want to  conduct some phonon
calculations using VCA. In quantum espresso, what is determined by atomic
weight? In others words, why the atomic weight can be set freely by users.

Thank you.


2013/11/18 Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it>

> On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 19:03 +0800, Yue-Wen Fang wrote:
>
> > Additionally, when using mixed PPs generated by virtual.x,
> > how to determine the atomic weight?
>
> atomic weights are used only for molecular dynamics
> and phonon calculations. Unless you want to perform
> such calculations using VCA (likely not a good idea)
> you may choose whatever atomic weight you like
>
> P.
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