[CPMD-list] the problem of MD simulation of H2O molecular

Axel Kohlmeyer axel.kohlmeyer at theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Wed Dec 8 14:56:57 CET 2004


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Nevil wrote:

hello nevil,

your time step is too large, so your CP-MD diverges after a while.
try using

TIMESTEP
  3.0

or less. alternatively you can increase the fictitious electron
mass, but that may take you further away from the BO-surface
and give a larger 'dragging' effect.

btw: it has to be

TEMPCONTROL IONS
 300.0 30.0

or so (i.e. 'TEMP' and not 'TEMO', and two numbers, the target
temperature and the delta for when to rescale the velocities.)

btw^2: you won't really need a cutoff of 120ry for those 
pseudopotentials for MD. about 85ry should do about as well.
the 120ry was mainly needed to get nicer/smoother cubefiles.

regards,
	axel.



N> Hi everyone:
N> 
N>      I download the input file of H2O molecular at this website:
N> 
N> http://www.theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~axel.kohlmeyer/cpmd-vmd/part5.html#chap7_sect1
N> 
N>      After the wavefuntion optimization, I wanted to continue the MD simulation of the H2O molecular. But I failed to get the result. The program seemed it couldn't converge.
N> 
N>      Is there anybody who have met this kind of problem? Please give me some advise.
N> 
N>     Thank you all very much. Good luck and happy new year. ^^
N> 
N> The input file of MD simulation and the output are following:
N> 
N> Input file:
N> 
N> &CPMD
N>   MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CP
N>   RESTART WAVEFUNCTION COORDINATES LATEST
N>   TRAJECTORY XYZ
N>   MAXSTEP
N>   100
N>   TIMESTEP
N>   4.0
N>   TEMOCONTROL IONS
N>   300
N>   ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL
N>   RHOOUT
N> &END
N> 
N> &DFT
N>   FUNCTIONAL PBE
N> &END
N> 
N> &SYSTEM
N>   SYMMETRY
N>    0
N>   CUTOFF
N>   120.0
N>   ANGSTROM
N>   CELL
N>    6.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
N> &END
N> 
N> &ATOMS
N> 
N> *O_MT_PBE  KLEINMAN-BYLANDER
N>  LMAX=P
N>  1
N>  2.904516     3.000000     2.926732
N> 
N> *H_MT_PBE  KLEINMAN-BYLANDER
N>  LMAX=S
N>  2
N>  2.900437     3.000000     3.897528
N>  3.841176     3.000000     2.671532
N> 
N> &END
N> 
N> And the output file:
N> 
N>       NFI    EKINC   TEMPP           EKS      ECLASSIC          EHAM         DIS    TCPU
N>          1  0.00000     0.0     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.108E-09    1.89
N>          2  0.00000     0.0     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.171E-08    1.87
N>          3  0.00000     0.1     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.857E-08    1.88
N>          4  0.00000     0.1     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.267E-07    1.88
N>          5  0.00000     0.2     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.643E-07    1.87
N>          6  0.00000     0.3     -17.21135     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.131E-06    1.88
N>          7  0.00000     0.3     -17.21136     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.240E-06    1.88
N>          8  0.00000     0.4     -17.21136     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.403E-06    1.88
N>          9  0.00000     0.5     -17.21136     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.635E-06    1.87
N>         10  0.00000     0.6     -17.21136     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.952E-06    1.88
N>         11  0.00000     0.8     -17.21136     -17.21135     -17.21135   0.137E-05    1.87
N>         12  0.00000     0.9     -17.21134     -17.21134     -17.21133   0.191E-05    1.88
N>         13  0.00002     1.0     -17.21127     -17.21127     -17.21125   0.260E-05    1.88
N>         14  0.00009     1.1     -17.21089     -17.21088     -17.21079   0.343E-05    1.88
N>         15  0.00050     1.2     -17.20877     -17.20876     -17.20826   0.447E-05    1.88
N>         16  0.00278     1.5     -17.19707     -17.19705     -17.19428   0.563E-05    1.88
N>         17  0.01544     1.4     -17.13222     -17.13221     -17.11676   0.719E-05    1.89
N>         18  0.08574     2.0     -16.77173     -16.77171     -16.68598   0.851E-05    1.90
N>         19  0.47317     0.8     -14.76271     -14.76270     -14.28953   0.112E-04    1.90
N>         20  2.51965     2.6      -3.39605      -3.39602      -0.87638   0.109E-04    1.90
N>         21  9.54015    77.3      68.11950      68.12023      77.66038   0.154E-04    1.91
N>         22 NaN      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN             0.685E-05  403.49
N>         23 NaN      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN          410.48
N>         24 NaN      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN          410.67
N> 
N> 

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