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

mkondrin mkondrin at hppi.troitsk.ru
Wed May 26 09:40:02 CEST 2021


Dear Rencong,

I believe that the last step in vc-relax calculations is made in 
slightly different Brillouin zone (calculated in relaxed variable cell 
parameters), so the pressure calculated in the last step may be 
different from whose obtained in the previous step (where Brillouin zone 
of the original cell was used convergence criteria with desired pressure 
is checked).

It also seems to me that your pressure is rather small. May be it has 
sense to increase the pressure to at least 10 kbar.

Sincerely yours,
M. V. Kondrin


On 26.05.2021 05:48, 连云龙 wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> 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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