cp2k calculation error
chun
chun... at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 20:21:48 UTC 2007
Thanks Teo
Chun-Min
On Oct 5, 5:36 pm, Teodoro Laino <teodor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Chun-Min,
>
> cp2k is a mixed gaussian-plane wave code. Though in principle
> calculations, with PW based codes, are translational invariant, in
> practice they are not because of the resolution of the GRID and the
> corresponding representation of the density on the grid (have a look
> at the paper on QS (Comp. Phys. Comm.) cited at the end of the run of
> cp2k if you want more technical details). The difference is generally
> small (as you've seen 0.5 mH) and in your case you're also using a
> pretty small cutoff. If you use a larger cutoff this difference
> should become smaller.
>
> As I said this behavior is not peculiar of cp2k but is common to all
> PW based codes.
>
> Teo
>
> On 5 Oct 2007, at 22:34, chun wrote:
>
>
>
> > &MGRID
> > CUTOFF 158
> > &END MGRID- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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