[CP2K:4010] Energy conservation NVT/NVE simulation

Matt W MattWa... at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 08:39:07 UTC 2012


Hi,

as a test, try running with PBE instead. BLYP can be numerically difficult.

Matt

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 8:58:15 AM UTC+1, albe... at virgilio.it wrote:
>
> Dear Juerg,
>
> thank you very much.
>
> I changed the functional to BLYP and I used ASPC interpolator.
> I carried out different tests where I tried different values of the
> EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER (up to 6), I increased the EPS_SCF and used defaults
> for most of the other parameters.
> Unfortunately, I still observe either drifts or jumps in the total energy.
>
> I think that there is still a problem in the input, reported below.
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> Alberto 
>
> ************
>
> &FORCE_EVAL
>   METHOD QS
>   &DFT
>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME GTH_BASIS_SETS
>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME GTH_POTENTIALS
>     &MGRID
>       CUTOFF 300
>       REL_CUTOFF 40
>     &END MGRID
>     &QS
>       EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-12
>       WF_INTERPOLATION ASPC
>       EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3
>     &END QS
>     &SCF
>       SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
>       EPS_SCF 1.0E-6
>       &OT T
>       &END OT
>       &PRINT
>         &RESTART OFF
>         &END
>       &END
>     &END SCF
>     &XC
>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL BLYP
>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>     &END XC
>     &PRINT
>       &MOMENTS MEDIUM
>       &END
>     &END PRINT
>   &END DFT
>   &SUBSYS
>     &CELL
>       ABC 9.8528 9.8528 9.8528
>     &END CELL
>     # 32 H2O (TIP5P,1bar,300K) a = 9.8528
>     &COORD
>    O       2.280398       9.146539       5.088696
>    O       1.251703       2.406261       7.769908
>    O       1.596302       6.920128       0.656695
>    O       2.957518       3.771868       1.877387
>    O       0.228972       5.884026       6.532308
>    O       9.023431       6.119654       0.092451
>    O       7.256289       8.493641       5.772041
>    O       5.090422       9.467016       0.743177
>    O       6.330888       7.363471       3.747750
>    O       7.763819       8.349367       9.279457
>    O       8.280798       3.837153       5.799282
>    O       8.878250       2.025797       1.664102
>    O       9.160372       0.285100       6.871004
>    O       4.962043       4.134437       0.173376
>    O       2.802896       8.690383       2.435952
>    O       9.123223       3.549232       8.876721
>    O       1.453702       1.402538       2.358278
>    O       6.536550       1.146790       7.609732
>    O       2.766709       0.881503       9.544263
>    O       0.856426       2.075964       5.010625
>    O       6.386036       1.918950       0.242690
>    O       2.733023       4.452756       5.850203
>    O       4.600039       9.254314       6.575944
>    O       3.665373       6.210561       3.158420
>    O       3.371648       6.925594       7.476036
>    O       5.287920       3.270653       6.155080
>    O       5.225237       6.959594       9.582991
>    O       0.846293       5.595877       3.820630
>    O       9.785620       8.164617       3.657879
>    O       8.509982       4.430362       2.679946
>    O       1.337625       8.580920       8.272484
>    O       8.054437       9.221335       1.991376
>    H       1.762019       9.820429       5.528454
>    H       3.095987       9.107088       5.588186
>    H       0.554129       2.982634       8.082024
>    H       1.771257       2.954779       7.182181
>    H       2.112148       6.126321       0.798136
>    H       1.776389       7.463264       1.424030
>    H       3.754249       3.824017       1.349436
>    H       3.010580       4.524142       2.466878
>    H       0.939475       5.243834       6.571945
>    H       0.515723       6.520548       5.877445
>    H       9.852960       6.490366       0.393593
>    H       8.556008       6.860063      -0.294256
>    H       7.886607       7.941321       6.234506
>    H       7.793855       9.141028       5.315813
>    H       4.467366       9.971162       0.219851
>    H       5.758685      10.102795       0.998994
>    H       6.652693       7.917443       3.036562
>    H       6.711966       7.743594       4.539279
>    H       7.751955       8.745180      10.150905
>    H       7.829208       9.092212       8.679343
>    H       8.312540       3.218330       6.528858
>    H       8.508855       4.680699       6.189990
>    H       9.742249       1.704975       1.922581
>    H       8.799060       2.876412       2.095861
>    H       9.505360       1.161677       6.701213
>    H       9.920117      -0.219794       7.161006
>    H       4.749903       4.186003      -0.758595
>    H       5.248010       5.018415       0.403676
>    H       3.576065       9.078451       2.026264
>    H       2.720238       9.146974       3.273164
>    H       9.085561       4.493058       9.031660
>    H       9.215391       3.166305       9.749133
>    H       1.999705       2.060411       1.927796
>    H       1.824184       0.564565       2.081195
>    H       7.430334       0.849764       7.438978
>    H       6.576029       1.537017       8.482885
>    H       2.415851       1.576460       8.987338
>    H       2.276957       0.099537       9.289499
>    H       1.160987       1.818023       4.140602
>    H       0.350256       2.874437       4.860741
>    H       5.768804       2.638450       0.375264
>    H       7.221823       2.257514       0.563730
>    H       3.260797       5.243390       5.962382
>    H       3.347848       3.732214       5.988196
>    H       5.328688       9.073059       5.982269
>    H       5.007063       9.672150       7.334875
>    H       4.566850       6.413356       3.408312
>    H       3.273115       7.061666       2.963521
>    H       3.878372       7.435003       6.843607
>    H       3.884673       6.966316       8.283117
>    H       5.918240       3.116802       5.451335
>    H       5.355924       2.495093       6.711958
>    H       5.071858       7.687254      10.185667
>    H       6.106394       7.112302       9.241707
>    H       1.637363       5.184910       4.169264
>    H       0.427645       4.908936       3.301903
>    H       9.971698       7.227076       3.709104
>    H      10.647901       8.579244       3.629806
>    H       8.046808       5.126383       2.213838
>    H       7.995317       4.290074       3.474723
>    H       1.872601       7.864672       7.930401
>    H       0.837635       8.186808       8.987268
>    H       8.314696      10.115534       2.212519
>    H       8.687134       8.667252       2.448452
>     &END COORD
>     &KIND H
>       BASIS_SET TZV2P-GTH
>       POTENTIAL GTH-BLYP-q1
>     &END KIND
>     &KIND O
>       BASIS_SET TZV2P-GTH
>       POTENTIAL GTH-BLYP-q6
>     &END KIND
>   &END SUBSYS
> &END FORCE_EVAL
> &GLOBAL
>   PROJECT H2O-32
>   RUN_TYPE MD
>   PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
>   &TIMINGS
>      THRESHOLD 0.000001
>   &END
> &END GLOBAL
> &MOTION
>   &MD
>     ENSEMBLE NVT
>     STEPS 30000
>     TIMESTEP 0.5
>     TEMPERATURE 300.0
>     &THERMOSTAT
>       TYPE CSVR
>       &CSVR
>         TIMECON 100.0
>       &END CSVR
>     &END THERMOSTAT
>   &END MD
>   &PRINT
>     &VELOCITIES LOW
>     &END
>   &END PRINT
> &END MOTION
>
> **************
>
>
> Il giorno mercoledì 5 settembre 2012 09:56:16 UTC+2, jgh ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi 
>>
>> the main problem is 
>>
>>      &QS 
>>       EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-12 
>>       WF_INTERPOLATION PS 
>>       EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3 
>>     &END QS 
>>
>> change to WF_INTERPOLATION ASPC (the default) and maybe 
>> increase the EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER slightly. 
>> See 
>> J. Hutter, Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics 
>> Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 2 (4) , 
>> pp. 604-612 
>> for an explanation. 
>>
>> You should also change to a more reasonable DFT functional. 
>> LDA (PADE) will lead to an extremly overstructured system. 
>> See 
>> J. Schmidt et al., 
>> Isobaric-isothermal molecular dynamics simulations utilizing density 
>> functional theory: An assessment of the structure and density of water at 
>> near-ambient conditions 
>> Journal of Physical Chemistry B Volume 113, Issue 35, 3 September 2009, 
>> Pages 11959-11964 
>>
>> regards 
>>
>> Juerg 
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> Juerg Hutter                         Phone : ++41 44 635 4491 
>> Physical Chemistry Institute   FAX   : ++41 44 635 6838 
>> University of Zurich               E-mail:  hut... at pci.uzh.ch 
>> Winterthurerstrasse 190 
>> CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland 
>> --------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> -----cp... at googlegroups.com wrote: ----- 
>> To: cp... at googlegroups.com 
>> From: "albe... at virgilio.it" 
>> Sent by: cp... at googlegroups.com 
>> Date: 09/05/2012 09:44AM 
>> Subject: [CP2K:4010] Energy conservation NVT/NVE simulation 
>>
>> Dear all, 
>>
>> I'm carrying out some tests to reproduce the VDOS of water and I used as 
>> starting points the input files 'H2O-32.inp' and 'H2O-64.inp' in 
>> tests/QS/benchmark directory. 
>>
>> In both cases I ran a NVT simulation at 300K for 15 ps followed by an NVE 
>> simulation on the equilibrated system. 
>>
>> I'm puzzled about the results in the energies: in both NVT and NVE  the 
>> plot of 
>> "Cons Qty" show a constant and linear drift while temperature, kinetic 
>> and 
>> potential energy are equilibrated and stable. 
>>
>> Since "Cons Qty" should be conserved and this is not the case I think 
>> that 
>> there are some problems in the setup of the simulation. 
>> I did not modify the parameters of the benchmark inputs but I just added 
>> the 
>> thermostat section in NVT and I modified only the printing option. 
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help and suggestions, 
>>
>> Alberto 
>>
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