[Pw_forum] Lower limit of target pressure

Paolo Giannozzi p.giannozzi at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 21:15:28 CEST 2016


"A lot" = how much? the default tolerance on pressure convergence is 0.5
KBar


Paolo

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Subhodip Chatterjee <subhopcqc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear PWSCF developers,
>
> Is there any restriction in the code for the "press" (target pressure)
> input?
>
> I successfully get my vc-relax calculations converged to desired pressure
> values as high as several terapascal, however, when I set a low enough
> value, e.g. 1 bar (i.e. press = 0.001), the final pressure in the output
> differs a lot!
>
> Best regards
> Subhodip
>
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>
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>
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