[CP2K-user] The cutoff unit in CP2K

[msha...@gmail.com]

Dear Marcella,

Thank you very much for your response. I have another question about this, 
what is the effect of NGRIDS keyword on the calculations. I see increasing 
the NGRIDS increase the speed of calculations but there are small 
differences in the total energy calculations. How does NGRIDS affect the 
calculations?

Thank you so much again.
On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 12:29:29 PM UTC+3:30 Marcella Iannuzzi 
wrote:

>
> In GPW the electron density, and not the wave functions, is expanded in PW.
> Therefore the PW cutoff is four time as large as a the one you would use 
> to expand the wave functions, as it is done in Quantum ESPRESSO.
> Whether or not the grids and PW parts of one GPW calculation become 
> expensive and dominant depends on the system and on the method you are 
> using. Hence increasing the PW cutoff, within a reasonable range, is often 
> not too problematic.
> Regards
> Marcella
>
> On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 8:46:10 AM UTC+1 msha... at gmail.com 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I wanted to ask a question about the cutoff value unit. The unit in the 
>> manual is in Ry and the default value is 280 Ry and for some systems, we 
>> may need to increase this value. I wanted to know why would we need such 
>> huge values? In Quantum ESPRESSO 60-80 Ry is fine for some calculations and 
>> adopting higher values is computationally expensive. Can you please explain 
>> a bit more about the unit of the cutoff in CP2K? and why in CP2K a larger 
>> value is required than QE?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>
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