Dear Forum,<br><br>I did MD on a system.<br>I try to control the temperature to be 1500 K.<br><br>But the temperature actually goes up tp 181045851.234662801 K.<br>I set 

  <br>    TIMESTEP 0.5  <br>    &THERMOSTAT<br>

       TYPE CSVR<br>

       &CSVR  <br>

       &END <br>

    &END <br>
    MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 2 2 2<br><br>Which parameter could be wrongly set?<br>I attached the temperature evolution and input file bellow.  <br><br>Thank you very much.<br><br>WANG Riping<br>2012.10.23<br><br><br><br><br>temperature evolution.<br>

#############################################  <br>Step Nr.          Time[fs]             Kin.[a.u.]          Temp.[K]          Pot.[a.u.]        Vol[Ang.^3]<br>         0               0.000        0.0213760036     1500.0000000000        0.0000000000     3896.7966704238<br>
         1               0.500        0.0438544164     3077.3584222727        0.0000000000     3896.9161948848<br>         2               1.000        0.1195351375     8388.0368760318        0.0000000000     3896.1364952925<br>
         3               1.500        0.2330157969    16351.2180507530        0.0000000000     3894.6885731006<br>         4               2.000        0.4374825924    30699.0914587688        0.0000000000     3892.3747027210<br>
         5               2.500        0.7362050456    51661.0864557421        0.0000000000     3889.6379391712<br>         6               3.000        1.0939284053    76763.3015576577        0.0000000000     3886.3452228422<br>
         7               3.500        1.5201833081   106674.5219699235        0.0000000000     3882.7749466025<br>         8               4.000        1.8500369256   129821.0575091369        0.0000000000     3879.0391225317<br>
         9               4.500        2.0692357295   145202.7075362107        0.0000000000     3875.6016837629<br>
############################################<br><br>cell evolution:<br>

#############################################  <br>#   Step   Time [fs]       Ax [Angstrom]       Ay [Angstrom]       Az [Angstrom]       Bx [Angstrom]       By [Angstrom]       Bz [Angstrom]       Cx [Angstrom]       Cy [Angstrom]       Cz [Angstrom]      Volume [Angstrom^3]<br>
       0       0.000       18.5019738272        0.0000000000        0.0000000000       -1.1505403890       23.4095941912        0.0000000000        0.0000118772       -0.0000167360        8.9969601736          3896.7966704238<br>
       1       0.500       18.5049169737       -0.0014795278       -0.0004619746       -1.1525953781       23.4067655513       -0.0010275937       -0.0002127641       -0.0004227087        8.9969277146          3896.9161948848<br>
       2       1.000       18.5075987234       -0.0031823685       -0.0011178718       -1.1549171051       23.3968618575       -0.0019425410       -0.0005316583       -0.0007898600        8.9976722368          3896.1364952925<br>
       3       1.500       18.5101263596       -0.0050177004       -0.0017990426       -1.1573975959       23.3819208221       -0.0032715606       -0.0008628281       -0.0013166430        8.9988913464          3894.6885731006<br>
       4       2.000       18.5124196197       -0.0063010169       -0.0025661157       -1.1591678315       23.3607067796       -0.0047895812       -0.0012357585       -0.0019178335        9.0006285713          3892.3747027210<br>
       5       2.500       18.5161431368       -0.0068002665       -0.0032999874       -1.1600408850       23.3317277369       -0.0064433759       -0.0015925592       -0.0025696778        9.0036732891          3889.6379391712<br>
       6       3.000       18.5207269862       -0.0063071055       -0.0039639358       -1.1597200055       23.2956244116       -0.0083104800       -0.0019154156       -0.0033011615        9.0077522263          3886.3452228422<br>
       7       3.500       18.5267460402       -0.0049535783       -0.0045176331       -1.1584091746       23.2529075349       -0.0104507988       -0.0021847261       -0.0041343337        9.0130485028          3882.7749466025<br>
       8       4.000       18.5344295759       -0.0029607353       -0.0049730987       -1.1564017280       23.2042231881       -0.0128546699       -0.0024063363       -0.0050657789        9.0194805851          3879.0391225317<br>
       9       4.500       18.5440445444       -0.0005171529       -0.0057865080       -1.1539505509       23.1538838565       -0.0154510106       -0.0028024066       -0.0060801797        9.0263396005          3875.6016837629<br>


#############################################  <br><br><br>INPUT:<br>############################################<br>&GLOBAL<br> PROJECT alpo4-13<br> RUN_TYPE MD<br> PRINT_LEVEL HIGH<br>&END GLOBAL<br><br>&MOTION<br>
  &MD<br>    ENSEMBLE NPT_F<br>    STEPS 200000<br>    TIMESTEP 0.5<br>    TEMPERATURE 1500<br>    &BAROSTAT<br>      PRESSURE 0 <br>    &END BAROSTAT<br>    &THERMOSTAT<br>       TYPE CSVR<br>       &CSVR<br>
          TIMECON 10<br>       &END<br>       #TYPE NOSE<br>       #&NOSE<br>          #IMECON 1000<br>       #&END<br>    &END<br>  &END MD<br> &CELL_OPT<br>   OPTIMIZER CG<br>   EXTERNAL_PRESSURE [GPa] 0<br>
   &CG<br>    &LINE_SEARCH<br>     TYPE 2PNT<br>    &END LINE_SEARCH<br>   &END CG<br> &END CELL_OPT<br> &GEO_OPT<br>   OPTIMIZER BFGS<br> &END GEO_OPT<br>&END MOTION<br><br>&FORCE_EVAL<br>
 STRESS_TENSOR ANALYTICAL<br> METHOD Quickstep<br> &DFT<br>   BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME ../BASIS_POTENTIALS/BASIS_MOLOPT<br>   POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME ../BASIS_POTENTIALS/GTH_POTENTIALS<br>   &MGRID <br>   &END MGRID<br>
   &QS<br>   &END QS<br>   &SCF<br>   &END SCF<br>   &XC<br>     &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE<br>     &END XC_FUNCTIONAL<br>   &END XC<br> &END DFT<br>  &SUBSYS<br>    &CELL <br>      #ABC 9.251 11.719 4.498<br>
      #ALPHA_BETA_GAMMA 90.000 90.000 92.814 <br>      A   9.2509869136        0.0000000000        0.0000000000  <br>      B  -0.5752701945       11.7047970956        0.0000000000  <br>      C   0.0000059386       -0.0000083680        4.4984800868 <br>
      PERIODIC XYZ      <br>      MULTIPLE_UNIT_CELL 2 2 2<br>      CELL_FILE_FORMAT XSC<br>    &END CELL<br>    &COORD<br> Al         2.0251129007        5.8523950977        2.0441004516<br> Al         6.6506061662        5.8523934714        2.4543817492<br>
 Al         4.7757871504        1.8896372972        1.2327169953<br> Al         3.8999319395        9.8151514347        3.2657657015<br> Al         8.5254220100        9.8151549074        1.2327163299<br> Al         0.1502970340        1.8896334988        3.2657663669<br>
  P         6.9382440555       -0.0000081967        4.3591332748<br>  P         2.3127464538       -0.0000000448        0.1393497981<br>  P         4.4859952101        7.7578368159        0.9530460977<br>  P         4.1897250386        3.9469516841        3.5454364050<br>
  P         8.8152121711        3.9469566547        0.9530457912<br>  P        -0.1394942858        7.7578319832        3.5454367114<br>  O         6.4902893277        1.3430971936        0.8934799380<br>  O         2.1854295721       10.3616915562        3.6050026720<br>
  O         6.8109182283       10.3616965556        0.8934795486<br>  O         1.8648010058        1.3430918326        3.6050030614<br>  O         5.0638253514       11.2239207064        3.3132124509<br>  O         3.6118938840        0.4808678369        1.1852701965<br>
  O         8.2373885817        0.4808643274        3.3132125520<br>  O         0.4383303168       11.2239242673        1.1852700954<br>  O         4.5975189433        8.1003104740        3.6878576387<br>  O         4.0782001732        3.6044781875        0.8106249586<br>
  O         8.7036960483        3.6044730173        3.6878574884<br>  O        -0.0279770309        8.1003154593        0.8106251090<br>  O         3.8013241520        9.4390884711        1.3890541076<br>  O         4.8743948423        2.2657000023        3.1094285079<br>
  O         0.2489005272        2.2657034124        1.3890542547<br>  O         8.4268186125        9.4390852523        3.1094283607<br>  O         6.0933668770        7.2205683219        1.3851714781<br>  O         2.5823519921        4.4842203099        3.1133110705<br>
  O         7.2078426156        4.4842230693        1.3851712205<br>  O         1.4678766492        7.2205654370        3.1133113281<br>  O         3.3546322555        6.4512879655        1.0037696480<br>  O         5.3210867680        5.2535006465        3.4947129469<br>
  O         0.6955911826        5.2535052328        1.0037695316<br>  O         7.9801279276        6.4512832932        3.4947130633<br>    &END COORD<br>    &KIND Al<br>      BASIS_SET SZV-MOLOPT-SR-GTH<br>      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q3<br>
    &END KIND<br>    &KIND P<br>      BASIS_SET SZV-MOLOPT-SR-GTH<br>      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q5<br>    &END KIND<br>    &KIND O<br>      BASIS_SET SZV-MOLOPT-GTH<br>      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6<br>    &END KIND<br>
  &END SUBSYS<br>&END FORCE_EVAL <br>################################################<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div>******************************************************************************<br>WANG Riping<br>
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