[QE-users] under pressure PbTaSe2 vc-relax calculation

连云龙 lianyl at ihep.ac.cn
Wed May 26 03:48:46 CEST 2021


Dear Rencong,

I had similar experiences when I use QE pw.x to relax structures under pressure and I want to follow this conversation. 

My experience is that, the behaviour and result of relaxation depend largely on the pesudopotential. 

It is also helpful to investigate the energy and pressure during the relaxation. 

In order for other experts to help you, could you please provide:
(1) the pseudopotentials used in the calculation
(2) the entire output file of pw.x, or at least the section contains the final coordinates? (search "End of BFGS" in the output file)
(3) your name and affiliation (this is the rule of the mailing list)

Best,
Yunlong 



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Yunlong LIAN ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9474-2181 CSNS, Dongguan Neutron Science Center Dongguan, Guangdong, P. R. China 连云龙 中国散裂中子源 中子科学部 A1-629 (内线 303) 中国广东省东莞市
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Subject: [QE-users] under pressure PbTaSe2 vc-relax calculation


Dear QE developer


I did the structural relaxation calculation for Pb at pressure of 3kbar, this is relax.in


&CONTROL
  prefix='PbTaSe2',
  calculation='vc-relax', pseudo_dir='../../', outdir='./tmp', verbosity='high',
  tprnfor=.true., tstress=.true., forc_conv_thr=1.0d-4, nstep=100,
/
&SYSTEM
  ibrav= 0, nat= 4, ntyp= 3,
  occupations = 'smearing', smearing = 'gauss', degauss = 1.0d-2,
  ecutwfc = 50, ecutrho = 500,
/
&ELECTRONS
  conv_thr = 1.0d-8
  mixing_beta = 0.7d0
/
&IONS
/
&CELL
  cell_dynamics  = "bfgs"
  press          =  2.70000e+00
  press_conv_thr =0.1
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
  Ta 180.9479 Ta.UPF
  Pb 207.2 Pb.UPF
  Se 78.96 Se.UPF
CELL_PARAMETERS (angstrom)
   3.4834700000  0.0000000000  0.0000000000
  -1.7417350000  3.0167735133  0.0000000000
   0.0000000000  0.0000000000  9.4755300000
ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)
  Pb  0.0000000000  0.0000000000  0.0000000000
  Se  0.0000000000  0.0000000000  0.3246710000
  Ta  0.3333330000  0.6666670000  0.5000000000
  Se  0.0000000000  0.0000000000  0.6753290000
K_POINTS {automatic}
  15 15 5 0 0 0


In relax.in, press=3.0kbar. But after pw.x is done, relax.out show that total stress  (Ry/bohr**3)  (kbar)     P=-0.83, and This is inconsistent with press=3. this is part of relax.out


[rencong at mu01 phonon]$ grep 'Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure' -A 15 relax.out


....


     Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure


          total   stress  (Ry/bohr**3)                   (kbar)     P=        2.93
   0.00002030  -0.00000000   0.00000000            2.99       -0.00        0.00
  -0.00000000   0.00002030  -0.00000000           -0.00        2.99       -0.00
  -0.00000000   0.00000000   0.00001921           -0.00        0.00        2.83


     kinetic stress (kbar)  26877.23      0.00      0.00
                                0.00  26877.23     -0.00
                                0.00      0.00  26796.57


     local   stress (kbar)-103340.53      0.03      0.00
                                0.03-103340.50      0.00
                                0.00      0.00  89394.48


     nonloc. stress (kbar)   7797.15      0.00      0.00
--
     Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure


          total   stress  (Ry/bohr**3)                   (kbar)     P=        2.96
   0.00002009  -0.00000000   0.00000000            2.96       -0.00        0.00
  -0.00000000   0.00002009  -0.00000000           -0.00        2.96       -0.00
   0.00000000  -0.00000000   0.00002028            0.00       -0.00        2.98


     kinetic stress (kbar)  26879.49      0.00      0.00
                                0.00  26879.49     -0.00
                                0.00     -0.00  26798.86


     local   stress (kbar)-103299.75      0.03      0.00
                                0.03-103299.72      0.00
                                0.00      0.00  89348.84


     nonloc. stress (kbar)   7797.79     -0.00      0.00
--
     Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure


          total   stress  (Ry/bohr**3)                   (kbar)     P=       -0.83
  -0.00000653  -0.00000000  -0.00000000           -0.96       -0.00       -0.00
   0.00000000  -0.00000653   0.00000000            0.00       -0.96        0.00
   0.00000000   0.00000000  -0.00000384            0.00        0.00       -0.56


     kinetic stress (kbar)  26883.07      0.00     -0.00
                                0.00  26883.07     -0.00
                               -0.00     -0.00  26802.38


     local   stress (kbar)-103303.36      0.03      0.00
                                0.03-103303.33      0.00
                                0.00      0.00  89345.22


     nonloc. stress (kbar)   7795.83     -0.00      0.00
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