[Wien] relaxation and optimisation using r2SCAN

Laurence Marks laurence.marks at gmail.com
Fri Jun 2 18:26:19 CEST 2023


In the first email from Boufia, does "every case" refer to changing the
lattice parameters? That only requires the total energy so works with mGGA.
It is internal position which cannot be relaxed currently, i.e. -min.

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On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 11:20 Peter Blaha <peter.blaha at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> No, relaxation is not possible as forces with mGGA are not implemented.
>
> You only need   init_mgga once (or most likely twice) in a directory. It
> does not do anything with the struct files.
>
>
> Am 02.06.2023 um 15:16 schrieb Hamza Bouafia:
> > Dear WIEN2k users,
> > using r2SCAN (mgga)
> > - relaxation can be done with mGGA with WIEN2k*?
> > - For optimization, we perform init_mgga at the beginning or we have to
> > change the script to launch it at each case.struct
> > thank you in advance
> > H Bouafia
> >
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