[CPMD-list] NAN trajectory for 32 water simulation

Holger Hesske holger.hesske at gmx.de
Tue Dec 11 14:02:21 UTC 2007




> Dear CPMD users, 
> 
Dear Chang,

Even I´m not an expert in CPMD, it seems that you are using a much to aggressive timestep. With hydrogen atoms (if you don´t substitute this by deuterium with the isotope keyword ) it is suggested to use TIMESTEP 3 or 5 at max.
Hope this helps.

Holger


Holger Hesske
Department of coordination chemistry
TU Dresden
Germany 


> I'm running CPMD with 32 water for a test case. 
> I get NAN in TRAJEC.xyz for my water simulation. I found some posting
> about NAN problem in the CPMD mailing-list. My case is little different. Now
> I'm trying to follow published work: JCP 120, 300 (2004). Since the paper
> didn't specify temperature coupling, I took Nose-hoover parameters from JPCB
> 108, 12990 (2004). 
> I don't know why I'm getting NAN. 
> 
> Please help me if anyone knows.  Thanks a lot in advance!
> 
> Chang 
> Here is my input file. 
> 
> &CPMD
>   MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CP
>   RESTART WAVEFUNCTION COORDINATES LATEST
>   TRAJECTORY XYZ 
>   TEMPERATURE
>   300
>   TIMESTEP 
>   7.0 
>   MAXSTEP 
>   100 
>   EMASS
>    760
>   NOSE IONS
>   298 2000
>   NOSE ELECTRONS
>   0.04 10000
> &END
> 
> &DFT
>   FUNCTIONAL BLYP
> &END
> 
> &SYSTEM
>   SYMMETRY
>   1
>   CELL
>   18.6251  1.0  1.0  0  0  0
>   CUTOFF
>   80.0
> &END
> 
> &ATOMS
> *O_GO_BLYP.psp  KLEINMAN-BYLANDER
>    LMAX=P
>  32 
>   0.3590     6.9542     12.2265 
>   2.8157     13.2848     13.5493 
>   12.9446     0.4913     12.5667 
>   11.4517     18.2170     2.3244 
>   11.3006     13.7761     5.1023 
>   0.0945     7.7479     4.8377 
>   1.0393     13.2470     8.1069 
>   10.3935     3.7039     16.7241 
>   7.2188     13.2281     9.0707 
>   17.4233     9.5053     16.9886 
>   10.1856     1.2094     9.6754 
>   10.6014     4.1952     3.0425 
>   13.3226     1.2094     6.9542 
>   10.6958     10.1478     16.3461 
>   4.2141     9.9211     5.1967 
>   13.8328     11.9809     1.4740 
>   5.8015     1.1905     11.6785 
>   0.6992     14.4753     18.2548 
>   6.0282     15.3068     17.9335 
>   6.4062     9.6187     0.3779 
>   15.4013     10.8092     6.1416 
>   8.9384     9.4486     3.6094 
>   5.9715     16.1572     5.8393 
>   1.5685     5.1401     0.6803 
>   17.0642     1.6252     2.5133 
>   4.9700     6.1605     13.6060 
>   17.3099     17.1965     5.4991 
>   1.3606     3.1369     6.0093 
>   4.5164     6.1416     8.4849 
>   11.2250     14.0785     12.3210 
>   16.2327     18.0658     16.2705 
>   8.0880     8.0124     9.8266 
> *H_MT_BLYP.psp 
>    LMAX=S
>   64 
>   -1.1905     7.7668     12.9635 
>   -0.1701     5.5747     11.0360 
>   3.8928     14.7588     13.0769 
>   1.6819     13.7761     14.9855 
>   14.2485     0.1890     13.8895 
>   11.5651     1.5685     13.2848 
>   11.5840     19.8043     1.3039 
>   12.3210     18.4626     3.9873 
>   11.7541     15.0800     3.8172 
>   9.8266     14.3997     6.1227 
>   -1.3606     8.3904     5.8582 
>   -0.5480     6.7841     3.3448 
>   1.5307     13.1714     9.9211 
>   -0.5669     12.2832     7.8424 
>   10.2990     3.6094     18.6138 
>   10.4313     5.5180     16.1761 
>   8.0691     11.5273     9.0140 
>   5.4424     13.0202     9.6943 
>   16.9508     9.3352     15.1745 
>   18.3303     7.9557     17.5745 
>   8.6549     1.2283     10.7714 
>   10.2423     2.7779     8.6360 
>   11.3195     2.6078     3.7417 
>   8.9384     4.5542     3.8739 
>   13.0580     1.3417     8.8250 
>   14.9099     0.2457     6.6140 
>   10.9226     11.3950     14.9477 
>   11.5651     10.7903     17.9146 
>   4.4598     8.3337     6.2172 
>   3.6661     11.3195     6.3306 
>   14.9477     11.4895     0.0378 
>   13.3037     13.7950     1.2661 
>   5.5936     2.9669     12.3021 
>   5.7070     0.0000     13.1336 
>   0.9827     14.8721     20.0689 
>   0.1323     12.6801     18.0847 
>   7.7857     15.9871     18.0280 
>   5.9148     13.7005     18.9162 
>   5.4235     8.0502     0.0567 
>   7.8613     9.7132     -0.8315 
>   15.5335     9.1274     5.2723 
>   13.6249     11.4517     5.9904 
>   10.0911     10.9604     3.6850 
>   7.1432     10.0344     3.7417 
>   4.3464     15.5713     6.6329 
>   5.8959     15.8926     3.9684 
>   1.4740     5.1212     2.5700 
>   0.0000     4.3653     -0.0378 
>   18.0280     1.6441     0.8882 
>   18.1225     0.8315     3.8550 
>   3.4771     7.1243     12.9635 
>   4.7999     5.8770     15.4580 
>   18.5004     17.9146     4.2141 
>   18.0658     15.6280     6.2361 
>   1.0393     4.7054     4.9889 
>   3.0614     2.4377     5.5936 
>   5.7448     4.7432     8.2770 
>   4.8944     7.0865     10.0722 
>   12.1698     15.6847     11.9620 
>   9.5620     14.1163     11.4139 
>   17.2532     16.7619     17.1776 
>   15.6280     19.3697     17.5178 
>   8.6549     6.6518     8.6549 
>   7.3510     7.2565     11.3950 
> &END
> 
> 
> Chang Yeon Won
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