[CPMD-list] Use of KOHN-SHAM energies

John Kofi Dogbe dogbe at unr.nevada.edu
Tue May 25 12:32:47 CEST 2004


Thank you. I'm running my job right now and seemed to be working (at
least, it hasn't died yet).

John
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ari P Seitsonen wrote:
>
> APS>
> APS> Dear John,
> APS>
> APS>   Please provide the number of empty ("virtual") states on the subsequent
> APS> line, e.g.
> APS>
> APS> # &CPMD
> APS> #   KOHN-SHAM ENERGIES
> APS> #      5
>
> and don't forget that you need run a wavefunction optimization first
> and load the converged wavefuntion with, e.g.
>
>      RESTART WAVEFUNCTION COORDINATES LATEST
>
>
> axel.
>
> APS> #   RHOOUT
> APS> #   ...
> APS> # &END
> APS>
> APS> You can also set it to zero if you only want to study the occupied
> APS> ("valence") orbitals).
> APS>
> APS>     Greetings,
> APS>
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> APS> On Tue, 25 May 2004, John Kofi Dogbe wrote:
> APS>
> APS> > Dear CPMD users,
> APS> >
> APS> > I have been trying to use the KOHN-SHAM keyword without success. CPMD
> APS> > terminates with an error that it has a problem reading the input file. I
> APS> > then tried it on the water molecule tutorial with the same error.
> APS> > Here's the first few lines of the input file:
> APS> >
> APS> > &CPMD
> APS> >   KOHN-SHAM ENERGIES
> APS> >   RHOOUT
> APS> >   ...
> APS> > &END
> APS> >
> APS> > The program only reads the first two lines and dies! Passing options to
> APS> > the keyword doesn't help either.
> APS> >
> APS> > Is there anything more to how to specify this keyword than what the manual
> APS> > says? By the way, when I use OPTIMIZE WAVEFUNCTION in place of KOHN-SHAM,
> APS> > the program runs without any problem!
> APS> >
> APS> > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> APS> > Thank you.
> APS> > John
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