Re: [QE-users] Convergence wrt. to cutoff: VdW vs. no VdW correction

2019-05-19 Thread Fabrizio Cossu
Dear Chris and Paolo, I experienced slightly different behaviour between the inclusion or not of vdw-d. I'm using QE 6.3, on a layered material with vdW bondings between layers. I would think such behaviour is normal, as vdW corrections modify the distance between layers, hence the expansion of

Re: [QE-users] Choosing convergence criteria for vc-relax

2019-05-19 Thread Nicola Marzari
Hi Robert, this issue of optimal parameters is a bit of a neverending story, we are preparing a short thing on this. But in a nutshell - yes, the electronic convergence should be tighter, especially for a follow-up phonon calculation. that number actually depends on the unit cell used, but f

[QE-users] pw.x crashes with tefield/dipfield (libmkl scalapack)

2019-05-19 Thread Christoph Wolf
Dear all, I am having a rather obscure problem with dipole correction in QE 6.4.1 (compiled with intel compilers). I am simulating a slab with atoms between z=0 and z=0.8 (in crystal units) and a field appliad at z=0.90 with a dipole size of 0.05 (the slab lies in the physical region). The estim