<div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>I have a few very basic questions regarding the Monte Carlo simulations in CP2K that I hope more experienced users will be able to answer. I have gone over most of the papers by McGrath and understand the theory associated to the different MC methods. The capabilities and implementation in cp2k are very impressive but I have questions regarding the practical use in cp2k:</div><div><br></div><div>1) <b>The concept of steps and cycles.</b> As far as I understand 1 cycle corresponds to 1 energy evaluation (i.e. a SCF run when using DFT). During a cycle cp2k attempts NMOVES sampled with probability PMHMC,etc.</div><div>1a) What does it mean to use LSTOP yes? (i.e. what do you gain from moving from cycles to steps?)</div><div>1b) When I run a simulation setting NSTEP=100, in the output files (e.g. mc_energies) the cycles go up to 185 (it stopped running due to time limit). How's that possible? </div><div><br></div><div>2) <b>Output of the simulations.</b> In order to calculate the acceptance ratio of the different moves I am guessing that the info can be found in the output file inputname.inp.moves.</div><div>2a) What do the two columns in inputname.inp.moves mean?</div><div><br></div><div>3) <b>HMC simulations.</b> I want to use HCM as an efficient method to relax a water box. For this purpose, I set PMHMC=0.5 and PMVOLUME=0.5, and add an MD section to the input file (following the example hmc.inp included in the cp2k distribution). This should, in theory, only allow HMC and volume moves. However, when I look at the input.inp.moves file I find that the columns of the entries bias_rot, rot, and Quickstep show non-zero numbers.</div><div>3a) What does Quickstep means as a move?</div><div>3b) Why is HMC all zeros?</div><div>3c) Why rot and bias_rot are not zero when they are moves that shouldn't be attempted?</div><div> </div><div>4) <b>GEMC simulations. </b>When I try to run the GEMC example from https://www.cp2k.org/howto:gemc by submitting the input file GEMC_NVT_box1.inp while having in the same folder the files GEMC_NVT_box2.inp, bias_template.inp, and topology_atoms_WAT.psf, the simulation doesn't run correctly (the output file is attached). I don't get any error messages but the simulation gets stuck after it outputs " Beginning the Monte Carlo calculation." I haven't modified any of the input files so I don't know what can possibly be wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help!</div>
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