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<p>First thing: It is a very bad idea to combine PBEsol with the NL-vdW kernel corresponding to type=1 and Zab=-1.887, because the lattice constants will be probably clearly too short. Only the NL-vdW kernel rVV10s (see Sec. 4.5.14 of the WIEN2k UG) should
be combined with PBEsol, but I still would not use PBEsol+rVV10s because it is not so good (see
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.063602">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.063602).</a> Better functionals like rev-vdW-DF2 or vdW-DF-cx should be used.<br>
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<p>(1) Since the layers in SnS2 are weakly bound, I would use SCAN+rVV10. How to use SCAN+rVV10 is explained in Secs. 4.5.14 and 7.3.2 of the UG: the 1st and 2dn lines of case.innlvdw are</p>
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<p>15.7 0.0093 parameters of the kernel<br>
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<p>(2) What do you mean by "but nothing happens."? is the module nlvdw not running at all?
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Wien <wien-bounces@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at> on behalf of shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 2, 2020 3:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> A Mailing list for WIEN2k users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Wien] nlvdw for SnS2</font>
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<div> I have done structural optimization (volume & then c/a & then force) with nlvdw without any problem. I have used Rmt*Kmax=9 and Gmax=25. The case.innlvdw and case.in0 are as follows;</div>
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-1.887 parameters of the kernel<br>
25 plane-wave expansion cutoff GMAX<br>
0.3 density cutoff rhoc<br>
T calculation of the potential (T or F)<br>
10 plane-wave expansion cutoff GMAXpot for the potential<br>
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<div>TOT XC_PBESOL (XC_LDA,XC_PBESOL,XC_WC,XC_MBJ,XC_SCAN)
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NR2V IFFT (R2V)<br>
54 54 90 2.00 1 NCON 9 # min IFFT-parameters, enhancement factor, iprint, NCON n<br>
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<div>However, after optimization of lattice parameters & atomic coordinates, I have tried to simulate energies using SCAN meta-GGA. But in this case I got confused about proper input parameters as stated below:</div>
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<div>(1) What will be the format of case.innlvdw (<b>Do we need to use scan+rVV10? if yes we have to use kernel type 2 but how? how to set b & c parameter in case.innlvdw?</b>)</div>
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<div>(2) After setting all the parameters when I tried to run runsp_lapw -nlvdw....<b>using commandline in gui I have been directed to run scf window where I was not able to find the -nlvdw switch and if I start run scf...the simulation starts with runsp_lapw
without -nlvdw switch...? </b>I have also tried to set the commands in terminal but nothing happens.</div>
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<div>Looking forward to your suggestions eagerly. Thanks in advance</div>
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