Some questions in the NEB example.

Chris K. Lee lksz... at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 23:31:52 UTC 2017


Hello, anybody home?

Is there nobody to explain the keywords of the inputs?

2017년 6월 29일 목요일 오후 3시 4분 37초 UTC+9, Chris K. Lee 님의 말:

> Dear CP2K users,
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> I have some questions in the NEB example.
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> (*https://www.cp2k.org/exercises:2015_cecam_tutorial:neb* 
> <https://www.cp2k.org/exercises:2015_cecam_tutorial:neb>)
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> It’s so hard to understand only with the Input reference.
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> (*https://manual.cp2k.org* <https://manual.cp2k.org/>)
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> At ./NEB/EX2/neb_GPW.inp
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> 1. line 2
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> &MULTIPLE_FORCE_EVALS
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> FORCE_EVAL_ORDER 2 3
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> “FORCE_EVAL_ORDER {Integer} ...” : Specify the orders of the different 
> force_eval.
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> What does ‘orders’ mean? What I guess for ‘2 3’ is 
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> There are three FORCE_EVAL sections and 1st one only contains the 
> information.
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> The 2nd and 3rd ones act as usual ‘FORCE_EVAL’. Am I right?
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> 2. line 9
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> &FORCE_EVAL / &MIXED
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> GROUP_PARTITION 2 16 
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> “GROUP_PARTITION {Integer} ...” : gives the exact number of processors for 
> each group
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> Is this mean that using 2 cpu processors for the 2nd FORCE_EVAL and 16 for 
> the 3rd one?
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> At ./NEB/EX2/neb.inp ‘GROUP_PARTITION 1 1’ means it only use total 2 
> processors?
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> 3. line 12, 13
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> &FORCE_EVAL / &MIXED / &GENERIC
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> MIXING_FUNCTION E1+E2
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> VARIABLES E1 E2
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> What does these two terms mean and how it works?
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> Is this ‘VARIABLES’ only for energy?
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> Does the CP2K understands that the variables as energy of 2nd and 3rd 
> FORCE_EVAL?
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> Which energy would be printed on the output?
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> 4. line 24, 27
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> &FORCE_EVAL / &MIXED / &MAPPING
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> &FORCE_EVAL 1 , &FORCE_EVAL 2
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> Does it mean that the 2nd FORCE_EVAL would treated as ‘1’ and the 3rd one 
> as ‘2’ ?
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> 5. line 33
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> &FORCE_EVAL / &SUBSYS
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> &COLVAR
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> Does this ‘COLVAR’ make automatically its own output without PRINT options?
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> 6. line 72
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> &FORCE_EVAL / &MM / &FORCEFIELD / &NONBONDED / &GENPOT
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> atoms Cu C
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> FUNCTION A*exp(-av*r)+B*exp(-ac*r)-C/(r^6)
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> VARIABLES r
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> “VARIABLES {Word} ... “ : Defines the variable of the functional form.
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> It shows they are trying to use ‘r’ as variable but that’s all.
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> Does CP2K understand that ‘r’ as distance between Cu and C?
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> Only the distance should be the ‘variables’ here?
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> 7. line 213
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> &MOTION / &BAND
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> NPROC_REP 18
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> Is this option useless for the serial run like ssmp?
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> 8. REPLICAs
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> What I under stand is that they used the intermediate coordinates as 
> replica.
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> They already optimized geometry for starting materials and final products.
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> How they get the optimized intermediate coordinates of the replica?
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