Dear Dhaval Satikunvar,
This kind of zigzag in energy may not be related to any errors in calculations.
Why not use a fitting procedure to obtain the smooth energy minimum?
Jibiao Li
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From: "Dhaval Satikunvar";<dhavalsatikun...@gmail.com>;
Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2017 03:08 PM
To: "pw_forum"<pw_forum@pwscf.org>;
Subject: [Pw_forum] error in total energy calculation
Dear all,
I am new to quantum espresso. I have done a few calculations on total energy of
cubic structures and I am getting results. While calculating energy of
rhombohedral structure, I am getting zig zag in total energy - lattice
parameter data instead of a sharp minimum. I am keeping a=b=c and
alpha=beta=gamma= 89'30" sat this stage. Please help me to rectify this error.
Output file is pasted below. First column is lattice parameter and second is
corresponding energy.
6.1 -120.559917
6.2 -120.603774
6.3 -120.623712
6.4 -120.659428
6.5 -120.679109
6.6 -120.676959
6.7 -120.689501
6.8 -120.729527
6.9 -120.749782
7.0 -120.784868
7.1 -120.770751
7.2 -120.746599
7.3 -120.820501
7.4 -120.776595
7.5 -120.775767
Thanks in anticipation
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Dhaval Satikunvar
Department of Physics,
Sardar Patel University, VVN
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