[QE-users] Problem with constraint optimization

Levin Rojas, Natalia natalia.levin at cec.mpg.de
Mon Aug 16 10:03:25 CEST 2021


Dear All,

I am using v. 6.7 and would like to perform a geometry optimization with a constraint distance. The job runs but directly at the first step, the desired constraint distance is changed from the chosen value. Could you please let me know what mistake I am doing? I send you here below my input.

Thank you very much in advance,
All the best,

Dr. Natalia Levin Rojas

Molecular Catalysis
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany



&CONTROL
    calculation   = 'relax' ! atoms relax
    forc_conv_thr =  1.00000e-03 ! default is 1.0e-3
    etot_conv_thr =  1.0e-3 ! default is 1.0e-4
    max_seconds   =  1.3e+07
    nstep         = 200
    tprnfor       = .true. ! default for vc relax. calculates forces
    tstress       = .true. ! default for vc relax. calculates stress
    pseudo_dir    = '/home/levin-rojas/pseudopot'
/

&SYSTEM
    a                                               =  1.10912e+01
    c                               =  3.71834e+01
    ecutrho                   =  448
    ecutwfc                   =  36
    ibrav                     = 4
    nat                       = 77
    nspin                     = 2
    ntyp                      = 4
    degauss                   =  0.04
    occupations               = 'smearing'
    smearing                  = 'marzari-vanderbilt'
    starting_magnetization(1) =  2.00000e-01
/

&ELECTRONS
    conv_thr         =  1.00000e-06 ! default is 1.0e-6
    electron_maxstep = 300
    mixing_beta      =  0.7
    mixing_mode      = 'local-TF'
    startingpot      = "atomic"
    startingwfc      = "atomic+random"
/

&IONS
    ion_dynamics = "damp" ! necessary to do the constraint opt
/

&CELL
cell_dofree = "ibrav"
/

K_POINTS {automatic}
3  3  1  0 0 0

ATOMIC_SPECIES
Pd   106.42000  Pd.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF.txt
C     12.011     C.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF.txt
O     15.999     O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF.txt
H     1.0079     H.pbe-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF.txt

ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}
Pd       1.386432200      0.800457744     21.809313990 0 0 0
Pd       4.159235351      0.800467089     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd       6.931951648      0.800467089     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd       9.704754800      0.800457744     21.809313990 0 0 0
Pd       0.000000000      3.201786068     21.809302318 0 0 0
Pd       2.772842367      3.201770400     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      3.201750000     21.809283258 0 0 0
Pd       8.318345632      3.201770400     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386407086      5.603057754     21.809296351 0 0 0
Pd       1.386407086      5.603057754     21.809296351 0 0 0
Pd       4.159200016      5.603013509     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd       6.931986984      5.603013509     21.809295672 0 0 0
Pd      -2.772765764      8.004356966     21.809302318 0 0 0
Pd      -0.000000000      8.004385491     21.809296351 0 0 0
Pd       2.772765764      8.004356966     21.809302318 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      8.004335509     21.809313990 0 0 0
Pd      -0.000000000      1.600894986     19.526857278 0 0 0
Pd       2.772834299      1.600896535     19.526825114 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      1.600896794     19.526796516 0 0 0
Pd       8.318353700      1.600896535     19.526825114 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386420505      4.002198314     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd       1.386420505      4.002198314     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd       4.159213874      4.002177102     19.526796516 0 0 0
Pd       6.931973126      4.002177102     19.526796516 0 0 0
Pd      -2.772799320      6.403475352     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd      -0.000000000      6.403500000     19.526824890 0 0 0
Pd       2.772799320      6.403475352     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      6.403456929     19.526825114 0 0 0
Pd      -4.159177692      8.804803007     19.526857278 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386377815      8.804827333     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd       1.386377814      8.804827333     19.526822830 0 0 0
Pd       4.159177691      8.804803007     19.526857278 0 0 0
Pd       0.000000000      0.000000000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      0.000000000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       8.318391000      0.000000000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386398000      2.401313000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       1.386398000      2.401313000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       4.159195000      2.401313000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       6.931992000      2.401313000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd      -2.772797000      4.802625000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       0.000000000      4.802625000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       2.772797000      4.802625000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      4.802625000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd      -4.159195000      7.203938000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386398000      7.203938000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       1.386398000      7.203938000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       4.159195000      7.203938000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd      -2.772797000      9.605250000     17.263979000 0 0 0
Pd       1.386398000      0.800438000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       4.159195000      0.800438000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       6.931992000      0.800438000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       9.704789000      0.800438000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       0.000000000      3.201750000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       2.772797000      3.201750000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      3.201750000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       8.318391000      3.201750000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd      -1.386398000      5.603063000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       1.386398000      5.603063000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       4.159195000      5.603063000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       6.931992000      5.603063000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd      -2.772797000      8.004375000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       0.000000000      8.004375000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       2.772797000      8.004375000     15.000000000 0 0 0
Pd       5.545594000      8.004375000     15.000000000 0 0 0
C        2.569581274      4.262015096     23.911043698
C        1.916693140      2.992142102     23.888676106
C        0.481232086      3.261641254     23.902443593
O        0.303341684      4.617992215     24.265783041
C        1.513628397      5.253724504     23.970352699
H        3.596662689      4.460196821     24.209001720
H        2.345491651      2.045541651     24.215478972
H       -0.235852934      2.608065467     24.402826828
C        1.570447427      6.695203635     24.148240883
O        2.633688322      7.375338373     24.052603816
H        0.605783872      7.168661910     24.434508797
H        3.876825848      7.047254226     23.498555186
H        5.664056192      4.668696675     22.676035843

CONSTRAINTS
1
'distance', 74, 76, 1.400
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