[Wien] Query regarding elastic constants of SnSe2

Laurence Marks laurence.marks at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 14:55:42 CEST 2024


Please read your email carefully, and use the computer behind your eyes.

"optimized by using spin polarization and nlvdw"
"running command; run_lapw ..."

Are these the same?
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 07:50 shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Sir,
>
>            I have used the optimized structure of SnSe2, which is
> optimized by using spin polarization and nlvdw. Now, this optimized file is
> used as an input for set_elast_lapw. I have used the running command; *run_lapw
> -ec 0.0001 -cc 0.0001 -fc 1.0 -min*
>
> I have obtained the following values of elastic constants; c11=90.8145,
> c12=23.8215, c13=18.9015, c33=21.961 & c55=4.368 (I have considered fit 2)
>
> However, the elastic constants reported in the literatures are;c11=111,
> c12=33.39, c13=33.08, c33 = 22.63, c44=44.48, c66= 38.80
>
> Please advice.
>
> with regards,
>
>
>
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 at 17:14, morteza jamal <m_jamal57 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> When the sensitivity of elastic constant calculations ignores with
>> respect to the order of fit.
>>
>> However from view point of theory, when the strain is small ( very small)
>> , the optimized value for order of fit is 2.
>>
>> IRelast package checks sensitivity of elastic constants calculations  to
>> the order of fit and prints them.
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
> Research Fellow
> Department of Physics
> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
> Bihta-801103
> Patna
> Bihar, India
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