[CP2K:7152] MD calculation water on Pt

[Sergey Doronin]

Dear Dorothea, thanks for your comments.


I think water at SPC model + Siepmann potential cannot be dissociated. The 
Siepmann terms are affected only on Pt-O iterations. Dissociation can occur 
with the separate iterations (Pt-O and Pt-H) and a flexible water models 
(or dissociations model). Previous calculations (graphite slab+water, metal 
ions+water) doesn’t show any bugs with the SPC model in cp2k, all 
intermolecular distance was fixed during calculation.


The problem of temperature jumps was fixed by adding REGION MOLECULE in 
&TERMOSTAT. Now energies and temperature seems quite plausible. 


Main tendency of previous calculation is a drift Cons Qty. Often the 
terminations are caused by atoms of water on peripheries of cell. Probably, 
the termination of all tasks is associated with boundary conditions. On 
cp2k forum I found useful theme: *Energy conservation NVT/NVE simulation* 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cp2k/ZNEiZIFMbKM This topic has 
comprehensive information about stability of the calculation. Dorothea, you 
were really right at the expense of the MD setup and parameters.


Mention above problems is fixed by adding:

-     -  in &constraint

SHAKE_TOLERANCE … (more than the default values)

ROLL_TOLERANCE …

-     -  in &ewald

ALPHA should be increased >0.5

 

Now all calculations with the siepmann potential are stable.


пятница, 13 ноября 2015 г., 0:04:19 UTC+3 пользователь Dorothea Golze 
написал:
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> Hi Sergey,
>
> the Siepmann-Sprik potential assumes intact water molecules at the 
> interface. In your case, some dissociation seems to take place. It is 
> checked with a simple distance criterion if we have 2 hydrogens per oxygen. 
> You get the error message:  *Error in Siepmann-Sprik part: too many H 
> atoms, *i.e. more than 2 hydrogen per oxygen found. 
> The keyword ALLOW_OH_FORMATION ignores that and doesn't calculate the T3 
> term of the Siepmann-Sprik potential for this MD step. So the program won't 
> stop. This keyword was actually intended for cases where water is described 
> at the QM level, but you can try it as well. 
> It's  strange that you have this behavior at the SPC level. However, the 
> temperature development of your MD is very weird and has extreme jumps. So 
> it's maybe not surprising that your O-H bonds are strangely stretched. So 
> better control your MD setup and parameters. 
> btw: examples for the Siepmann-Sprik potential can be found in the 
> regtests: /cp2k/tests/Fist/regtest-6/
>
> Best regards,
> Dorothea
>
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