[CP2K-user] [CP2K:17459] Different values of stress tensor from FORCE_EVAL and MOTION sections duing MD

Abhishek Sharma asharma.ms.in at gmail.com
Thu Aug 11 09:44:59 UTC 2022


Many thanks Matthias for your reply

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 4:04 PM Krack Matthias (PSI) <matthias.krack at psi.ch>
wrote:

> Hi Abhishek
>
>
>
> The total stress tensor including the contributions from the kinetic
> energy and the constraints (e.g. during a NpT run) is written to the
> .stress file whereas only the (zero-T) stress tensor is written to the CP2K
> output file, which are basically the derivatives of the total energy wrt to
> the cell parameters as needed during a CELL_OPT run.
>
>
>
> HTH
>
>
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
> *From: *"cp2k at googlegroups.com" <cp2k at googlegroups.com> on behalf of
> Abhishek Sharma <asharma.ms.in at gmail.com>
> *Reply to: *"cp2k at googlegroups.com" <cp2k at googlegroups.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 16:12
> *To: *"cp2k at googlegroups.com" <cp2k at googlegroups.com>
> *Subject: *[CP2K:17456] Different values of stress tensor from FORCE_EVAL
> and MOTION sections duing MD
>
>
>
> Dear CP2K users,
>
>
>
> I am trying to monitor the stress tensor in my ab initio MD simulation in
> NPT ensemble using CP2K version 7.1. I wrote two print sections, one in
> FORCE_EVAL section (to print stress file) as
>
> ...
>
>   &PRINT
>     &FORCES             ON
>       FILENAME          =forces
>     &END FORCES
>     &STRESS_TENSOR      ON
>         FILENAME        =stress
>     &END STRESS_TENSOR
>   &END PRINT
>   STRESS_TENSOR         ANALYTICAL
>
>
>
> and another in PRINT of MOTION section (to get pressure file)
>
> ...
>
>         &STRESS
>             &EACH
>                 MD 1
>             &END
>             FILENAME pressure
>         &END STRESS
>
>
>
> After running the job , I got following output in the stress file:
>
>  STRESS TENSOR [GPa]
>             X               Y               Z
>   X       0.00106044     -0.00003023     -0.00393423
>   Y      -0.00003023      0.01251158      0.00014630
>   Z      -0.00393423      0.00014630      0.00717328
>   1/3 Trace(stress tensor):   6.91510096E-03
>   Det(stress tensor)      :  -9.84767286E-08
>  EIGENVECTORS AND EIGENVALUES OF THE STRESS TENSOR
>          -0.00086519      0.00909269      0.01251781
>
>           0.89817098     -0.43935160     -0.01609565
>          -0.00277868     -0.04228259      0.99910183
>           0.43963755      0.89731954      0.03919782
>
> ==============================================================================
>    Stress Tensor Components (GPW/GAPW)
>                                                 1/3 Trace
> Determinant
>    Kinetic Energy Stress                       1.22833622
>  0.02852337
>    Basis Overlap Stress                        0.30458944
>  0.01186246
>    ES + XC Stress                          -1736.32537740
>  ****************
>    vdW correction (ff) Stress                 -0.00517761
> -0.00000010
>    Local Pseudopotential/Core Stress          -0.88167272
> -0.56052030
>    Nonlocal Pseudopotential Stress             2.92262879
> 20.96427765
>    Exact Exchange Stress                      -0.00000000
> -0.00000000
>    Sum of Parts Stress                     -1732.75667328
>  ****************
>    Total Stress                                0.00785295
> -0.00000014
>
> ==============================================================================
>  STRESS TENSOR [GPa]
>             X               Y               Z
>   X      -0.05130320      0.02112443     -0.15716038
>   Y       0.02112443      0.07439468     -0.03381687
>   Z      -0.15716038     -0.03381687      0.04697689
>   1/3 Trace(stress tensor):   2.33561233E-02
>   Det(stress tensor)      :  -1.75455374E-03
>
>
>
> while in pressure file I got following output
>
>
>
> #   Step   Time [fs]            xx [bar]            xy [bar]            xz
> [bar]            yx [bar]            yy [bar]            yz [bar]
>  zx [bar]            zy [bar]            zz [bar]
>        0       0.000     2291.7724124002       -7.8261381151
>  -11.6256055821       -7.8261381151     2225.2853884787      190.2135354318
>      -11.6256055821      190.2135354318     2617.3106021379
>        1       0.500     1721.2682620818      206.1262199908
>  -1539.1469767016      206.1262199908     2804.1547381410
> -143.2394364947    -1539.1469767016     -143.2394364947     2958.6420055205
>
>
>
> Both files have values different units (GPa in stress file and bar in
> pressure file). After converting values to same unit (say bar) the xx
> stress value 10.60 bar (0.00106044 GPa) does not match with the value of
> 2291.77 bar in the pressure file. Can you please help me to understand this
> ? Am I doing something wrong in my input file. The print output of cell
> vectors from the MOTION section is following:
>
>
>
> #   Step   Time [fs]       Ax [Angstrom]       Ay [Angstrom]       Az
> [Angstrom]       Bx [Angstrom]       By [Angstrom]       Bz [Angstrom]
>   Cx [Angstrom]       Cy [Angstrom]       Cz [Angstrom]      Volume
> [Angstrom^3]
>        0       0.000       16.9813194275        0.0000000000
>  0.0000000000        0.0009342941       17.1132431030        0.0000000000
>     -0.0392083935        0.0056124185       17.0369434357
>  4951.0285723949
>        1       0.500       16.9878393880       -0.0026240361
>  0.0088682212       -0.0017097687       17.1090517191        0.0016270059
>     -0.0303270449        0.0072363688       17.0367331490
>  4951.6596469487
>
>
>
> Many thanks ,
>
> Abhishek
>
>
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