[Wien] new optimization scheme

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Jun 3 10:14:24 CEST 2011


The implementation of   :FSUM in WIEN2k_11 might not work properly in all cases.
Most likely, you can forget this statement (or estimate the sum of forces manually
taking into account eventually MULT > 1 !!!).
The next release should have this ok (and it will be called :FCHECK)

Am 03.06.2011 10:06, schrieb Laurence Marks:
> It is hard to say as you don't provide enough information.
> In the second case you apparently have a structure without a center ofsymmetry and something very, very bad is going on along the z axis asthe sum of forces should be zero with OK RKMAX/RMT etc.
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Lyudmila V. Dobysheva<lyu at otf.pti.udm.ru>  wrote:>  Dear WIEN developers,>>  I started using the new optimization scheme that is in mixer (MSR1a). In one>  calculation I had lines>  :FSUM  : Sum of forces Fx,Fy,Fz   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000>  (and it worked well)>>  Another calculation has lines like (1):>  :FSUM  : Sum of forces Fx,Fy,Fz   0.00000   0.00000  -1466.20200>  and in addtion some remark just after :RTO lines  (2):>  Note: symmetry trapping>  I do not know yet whether it works good as the process is going on. Energy is>  decreasing, but forces still not.>>  What these 1 and 2 mean and aren't they bad?>>  Best regards>    Lyudmila Dobysheva>  ------------------------------------------------------------------>  Phys.-Techn. Institute of Ural Br. of Russian Ac. of Sci.>  426001 Izhevsk, ul.Kirova 132>  RUSSIA>  ------------------------------------------------------------------>  Tel.:7(3412) 442118 (home), 218988(office), 250614(F
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