[CPMD-list] Use of KOHN-SHAM energies
Ari P Seitsonen
Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi
Tue May 25 12:40:39 CEST 2004
Dear John,
Please see page 74 in the manual:
"Kohn-Sham energies The calculation of canonical Kohn-Sham orbitals
requires a restart. ..."
Thus you do have to restart from a previous run.
Greetings from the Sunny Zurich,
apsi
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Ari Paavo Seitsonen / Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi / http://www.iki.fi/~apsi/
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On Tue, 25 May 2004, John Kofi Dogbe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did set it to zero and the error was that it requires a restart file.
> I could reproduce that error with h2o tutorial and send it to you if you
> want ...
>
> Thank you.
> John
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ari P Seitsonen wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear John,
> >
> > Please provide the number of empty ("virtual") states on the subsequent
> > line, e.g.
> >
> > # &CPMD
> > # KOHN-SHAM ENERGIES
> > # 5
> > # RHOOUT
> > # ...
> > # &END
> >
> > You can also set it to zero if you only want to study the occupied
> > ("valence") orbitals).
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > apsi
> >
> > -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-
> > Ari Paavo Seitsonen / Ari.P.Seitsonen at iki.fi / http://www.iki.fi/~apsi/
> > Tel +41 1 635 44 97 / Fax +41 1 635 68 38 / GSM +41 79 719 09 35
> > Anschrift: Physikalisch Chemisches Institut (PCI), Universität Zürich (UniZh)
> > Indirizzo: Winterthurerstraße 190, CH-8057 Zürich
> > Address: Schweiz / Svizzera / Suisse / Svizra / Switzerland
> >
> > On Tue, 25 May 2004, John Kofi Dogbe wrote:
> >
> > > Dear CPMD users,
> > >
> > > I have been trying to use the KOHN-SHAM keyword without success. CPMD
> > > terminates with an error that it has a problem reading the input file. I
> > > then tried it on the water molecule tutorial with the same error.
> > > Here's the first few lines of the input file:
> > >
> > > &CPMD
> > > KOHN-SHAM ENERGIES
> > > RHOOUT
> > > ...
> > > &END
> > >
> > > The program only reads the first two lines and dies! Passing options to
> > > the keyword doesn't help either.
> > >
> > > Is there anything more to how to specify this keyword than what the manual
> > > says? By the way, when I use OPTIMIZE WAVEFUNCTION in place of KOHN-SHAM,
> > > the program runs without any problem!
> > >
> > > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> > > Thank you.
> > > John
> > > --
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> > >
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> > > but if well, why smitest thou me?"
> > > -- Jesus Christ (John, 18:23)
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> >
>
> --
> **The first is not necessarily the Leader**
>
> "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil:
> but if well, why smitest thou me?"
> -- Jesus Christ (John, 18:23)
>
>
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