[Pw_forum] adding vacuum

[Nicola Marzari]

On 16/11/2015 21:17, Jaret Qi wrote:
> but that will cost time!

you are right! just keep the 4 angstroms, no one will notice.

(actually, skip the calculations altogether, and make up some
plausible numbers in your paper - that will be even faster).

			nicola

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> On Monday, November 16, 2015 9:26 AM, Pascal Boulet
> <pascal.boulet at univ-amu.fr> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 4 angstroms wide seems to be very small for the vacuum. As a rule of
> thumb you should use at least 2.5 times the thickness of your slab. This
> is what we observed in the calculations of semiconductor slabs. This has
> to be tested.
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> Pascal
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> Le 16 nov. 2015 à 16:40, Jaret Qi <jaretqi at yahoo.com
> <mailto:jaretqi at yahoo.com>> a écrit :
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>> Hello all,
>> I am trying to minimize the interaction between my system and its
>> periodic images. To do so, I introduced a layer of vacuum along the
>> z-axis by increasing the lattice vector along the z-axis by 4A. At the
>> same time, I fixed it by using this parameter: cell_dofree='2Dxy',
>> But I have noticed atoms that are close to the vacuum move along the
>> z-axis and vacuum is decreasing, is this wrong or I should use
>> different cell_dofree?
>> note:relaxation still ongoing, not relaxed yet.
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>>
>> JARET,
>> ASU
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