<div dir="ltr">Dear users and developers,<div><br></div><div>My name is Ion Such and I am a recent CP2K user. I am interested in getting raman spectra of adsorbed molecules. </div><div>As an exercise I am following one of the HOWTOs on the cp2k web: "<a href="http://www.travis-analyzer.de/files/travis_ir_raman.pdf" class="urlextern" target="_blank" title="http://www.travis-analyzer.de/files/travis_ir_raman.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(43, 115, 183); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How to calculate infrared and Raman spectra from MD</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> with CP2K and </span><a href="http://www.travis-analyzer.de/" class="urlextern" target="_blank" title="http://www.travis-analyzer.de/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: none; color: rgb(43, 115, 183); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">TRAVIS</a><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">". In my case I am simulating a molecule of  para-nitroaniline in a box.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">At the time of writing  I have made the first Molecular Dynamics run and have obtained the infrared spectrum and  a cp2k input file for the calculation of the polarizabilities by using TRAVIS but I run into an error when trying to execute the polarizabilities calculation that I don't understand and need some help to go ahead.</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The error in the output file reads </span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div>MD| Molecular Dynamics Protocol </div><div> MD| Ensemble Type                                                       REFTRAJ</div><div> MD| Number of Time Steps                                                   2000</div><div> MD| Time Step [fs]                                                         0.50</div><div> MD| Temperature [K]                                                      300.00</div><div> MD| Temperature tolerance [K]                                              0.00</div><div> MD| Print MD information every                                        1 step(s)</div><div> MD| File type     Print frequency[steps]                             File names</div><div> MD| Coordinates            1                           polarizability-pos-1.xyz</div><div> MD| Velocities             1                           polarizability-vel-1.xyz</div><div> MD| Energies               1                              polarizability-1.ener</div><div> MD| Dump                   1                           polarizability-1.restart</div><div><br></div><div> ROT| Rotational Analysis Info </div><div> ROT| Principal axes and moments of inertia in atomic units:</div><div> ROT|                                1                 2                 3</div><div> ROT| EIGENVALUES            0.853999142E+06   0.406672822E+07   0.491400783E+07</div><div> ROT|      X                    -0.022761946      -0.821027156      -0.570435187</div><div> ROT|      Y                     0.067435865       0.568022568      -0.820245552</div><div> ROT|      Z                     0.997463933      -0.057138175       0.042437378</div><div> ROT| Numer of Rotovibrational vectors:     6</div><div><br></div><div> Calculation of degrees of freedom</div><div>                                                      Number of atoms:        16</div><div>                                 Number of Intramolecular constraints:         0</div><div>                                 Number of Intermolecular constraints:         0</div><div>                                  Invariants(translation + rotations):         3</div><div>                                                   Degrees of freedom:        45</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Restraints Information</div><div>                                  Number of Intramolecular restraints:         0</div><div>                                  Number of Intermolecular restraints:         0</div><div> ************************** Velocities initialization **************************</div><div> Initial Temperature                                                    300.00 K</div><div> COM velocity:            0.000000000000     -0.000000000000      0.000000000000</div><div> *******************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> *******************************************************************************</div><div> *   ___                                                                       *</div><div> *  /   \                                                                      *</div><div> * [ABORT]                                                                     *</div><div> *  \___/                             CPASSERT failed                          *</div><div> *    |                                                                        *</div><div> *  O/|                                                                        *</div><div> * /| |                                                                        *</div><div> * / \                                                motion/integrator.F:1541 *</div><div> *******************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> ===== Routine Calling Stack ===== </div><div><br></div><div>            3 velocity_verlet</div><div>            2 qs_mol_dyn_low</div><div>            1 CP2K</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The relevant part of the TRAVIS generated input is the following: </span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif"><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">&MOTION</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"> &MD</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  ENSEMBLE REFTRAJ</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  STEPS 2000</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  TIMESTEP 0.500000</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  &REFTRAJ</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">   EVAL_ENERGY_FORCES</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">   TRAJ_FILE_NAME polarizability_reftraj.xyz</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">    LAST_SNAPSHOT 2001</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">    STRIDE 1</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  &END REFTRAJ</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"> &END MD</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"> &PRINT</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  &RESTART</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">   &EACH</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">    MD 1</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">   &END EACH</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">  &END RESTART</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"> &END PRINT</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">&END MOTION</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">THANKS</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-size: 14px;">Ion</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div></font></div></div>