Relaxation of the internal coordinates of a perturbed cd Si structure.

POSCAR


Si
1.0
        3.8401000500         0.0000000000         0.0000000000
        1.9200500250         3.3256241964         0.0000000000
        1.9200500250         1.1085413988         3.1354285612
   Si
    2
Direct
     0.000000000         0.000000000         0.000000000
     0.250000000         0.250000000         0.250000000
Break of symmetry in standard diamond structure: change z position from 0.125 to 0.130.
Converting to the format of QE.

structure


CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
    0.0000000000000000   2.5000000000000000   2.5000000000000000
    2.5000000000000000   0.0000000000000000   2.5000000000000000
    2.5000000000000000   2.5000000000000000   0.0000000000000000
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Si    28.086    Si.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
Si    -0.1250000000000000  -0.1250000000000000  -0.1250000000000000
Si    0.1250000000000000  0.1250000000000000  0.1300000000000000

calculation = ‘vc-relax’: allow cell to be relaxed. calculation = ‘relax’: only relax the atomic positions。

input


&CONTROL
  calculation = "vc-relax",
  pseudo_dir  = '/public/home/users/shu003/pseudo_QE',
  prefix      = 'pwscf',
  outdir      = './tmp',
  verbosity='high', tprnfor=.true., tstress=.true., forc_conv_thr=1.0d-5,
  nstep=50
/
&SYSTEM
  ibrav       = 0,
  ntyp        = 1,
  nat         = 2,
  ecutwfc     = 30.D0,
  occupations = "smearing",
  smearing    = "gaussian",
  degauss     = 0.0005
/
&ELECTRONS
  electron_maxstep = 30
  conv_thr    = 1.D-6,
  mixing_mode = 'plain',
  mixing_beta = 0.8d0,
  diagonalization = 'david'
/
&IONS
  ion_dynamics      = 'bfgs',
/
&CELL
  press_conv_thr=0.1,cell_dofree='all'
/
CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom
    0.0000000000000000   2.5000000000000000   2.5000000000000000
    2.5000000000000000   0.0000000000000000   2.5000000000000000
    2.5000000000000000   2.5000000000000000   0.0000000000000000
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Si    28.086    Si.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
Si    -0.1250000000000000  -0.1250000000000000  -0.1250000000000000
Si    0.1250000000000000  0.1250000000000000  0.1300000000000000
K_POINTS {automatic}
6 6 6 0 0 0

mpirun $PW_EXEC -nk 4 < input > ./report
rm pwscf.wfc*
rm pwscf.save/wfc*


check the energy convergence:
grep "! total energy" report

awk '/Begin final coordinates/,/End final coordinates/{print $0}' report