<div dir="auto">Did you check:<div dir="auto">a) The BVS, to ensure that you do not have a GIGO surface?</div><div dir="auto">b) Whether the system has a decent gap or not -- I believe WO3 should be an insulator.</div><div dir="auto">c) Whether you are satisfying valence neutrality at the surface.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I expect you have a GIGO surface, 99.99% probability. You cannot just create an oxide supercell and expect it to lead to a realistic surface. Fixing layers won't help, and is flawed thinking.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">GIGO.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 01:31 Dr. K. C. Bhamu <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Wien2k Users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am trying to relax the WO3 surface structure (1x1x5 with 15 Ang vacuum). The bulk structure crystallizes in 221 SG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Then I created the 1x1x5 layered structure and relaxed the top two layers with the bottom three layers kept fixed. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I see after relaxation, the top layer detached from the system (the W-O bond length increased from 1.9 to 2.3 Ang), you can see from the PDF provided with this email.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have tried with QE as well and the same problem I faced there.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am wondering if someone has faced a similar experience and would like to share his/her experience with me to tackle this issue. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have used a different strategy: with U, with U, with dipole correction, without dipole correction, vacuum up to 30Ang.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As the bulk system is a high symmetry system, is it the reason due to the symmetry? If so then how one can handle it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am providing the required information here in the tar file (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://we.tl/t-0vedkrUS54__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!Day7KZQBXQaPn8HGxSpldvOiJzObtS73z_8I17izzlA5ZmuvSj27rMzSsjCo-bt6MCzNAQ$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">PLEASE DOWNLOAD FROM HERE</a>).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default">I would appreciate it if someone shares their experience with me.</div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bhamu</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div>
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