[gmx-users] Re: cpmd dynamics

Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvchaban at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 23:12:02 CET 2013


>               Now I am trying a dynamics of a simple molecule binding with
> an halide in gas phase in normal cpmd without any interface of
> gromacs-cpmd. But this MD is not running properly after 15 steps. The
> output of this MD is following type :
> * simple molecular dynamics deltat=4au
>   *
>  ******************************************************************************
>
>  CAR-PARRINELLO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
>
>  PATH TO THE RESTART FILES:                                    ./
>  RESTART WITH OLD ORBITALS
>  RESTART WITH OLD ION POSITIONS
>  RESTART WITH LATEST RESTART FILE
>  ITERATIVE ORTHOGONALIZATION
>     MAXIT:                                                     30
>     EPS:                                                 1.00E-06
>  MAXIMUM NUMBER OF STEPS:                             10000 STEPS
>  PRINT INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
>  STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY                     10001 STEPS
>  STORE INTERMEDIATE RESULTS EVERY     10001 SELF-CONSISTENT STEPS
>  NUMBER OF DISTINCT RESTART FILES:                              1
>  TEMPERATURE IS CALCULATED ASSUMING AN ISOLATED MOLECULE
>  FICTITIOUS ELECTRON MASS:                               400.0000
>  TIME STEP FOR ELECTRONS:                                  5.0000
>  TIME STEP FOR IONS:                                       5.0000
>  TRAJECTORIES ARE SAVED ON FILE
>  TRAJEC.xyz IS SAVED ON FILE
>  ELECTRON DYNAMICS: THE TEMPERATURE IS NOT CONTROLLED
>  ION DYNAMICS:      THE TEMPERATURE IS NOT CONTROLLED
>  SPLINE INTERPOLATION IN G-SPACE FOR PSEUDOPOTENTIAL FUNCTIONS
>     NUMBER OF SPLINE POINTS:                                 5000
>
>  EXCHANGE CORRELATION FUNCTIONALS
>     LDA EXCHANGE:                        SLATER (ALPHA = 0.66667)
>     LDA CORRELATION:                             LEE, YANG & PARR
>        [C.L. LEE, W. YANG, AND R.G. PARR, PRB 37 785 (1988)]
>     GRADIENT CORRECTED FUNCTIONAL
>     DENSITY THRESHOLD:                                1.00000E-08
>     EXCHANGE ENERGY
>        [A.D. BECKE, PHYS. REV. A 38, 3098 (1988)]
>        PARAMETER BETA:                                   0.004200
>     CORRELATION ENERGY
>        [LYP: C.L. LEE ET AL. PHYS. REV. B 37, 785 (1988)]
>
>  ***     DETSP| SIZE OF THE PROGRAM IS    8564/ 219400 kBYTES ***
>
>  >>>>>>>> CENTER OF MASS HAS BEEN MOVED TO CENTER OF BOX <<<<<<<<
>  TOTAL INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC DENSITY
>     IN G-SPACE =                                        32.000000
>     IN R-SPACE =                                        32.000000
>
>  (K+E1+L+N+X)           TOTAL ENERGY =          -67.09114118 A.U.
>  (K)                  KINETIC ENERGY =           51.98353287 A.U.
>  (E1=A-S+R)     ELECTROSTATIC ENERGY =          -47.02753506 A.U.
>  (S)                           ESELF =           51.53004455 A.U.
>  (R)                             ESR =            2.07472788 A.U.
>  (L)    LOCAL PSEUDOPOTENTIAL ENERGY =          -60.56675780 A.U.
>  (N)      N-L PSEUDOPOTENTIAL ENERGY =            5.23968996 A.U.
>  (X)     EXCHANGE-CORRELATION ENERGY =          -16.72007115 A.U.
>          GRADIENT CORRECTION ENERGY =            -0.91529031 A.U.
>
>        NFI    EKINC   TEMPP           EKS      ECLASSIC          EHAM
>   DIS    TCPU
>          1  0.03372     1.3     -67.09114     -67.09110     -67.05738
> 0.219E-07    4.12
>  FILE TRAJECTORY EXISTS, NEW DATA WILL BE APPENDED
>  FILE TRAJEC.xyz EXISTS, NEW DATA WILL BE APPENDED
>          2  0.08543     4.3     -67.14733     -67.14719     -67.06176
> 0.331E-06    4.13
>          3  0.09756     7.5     -67.15818     -67.15793     -67.06037
> 0.153E-05    4.09
>          4  0.08281     9.7     -67.14102     -67.14070     -67.05789
> 0.431E-05    4.09
>          5  0.07448    10.6     -67.13244     -67.13209     -67.05761
> 0.912E-05    4.13
>          6  0.07775    10.3     -67.13636     -67.13602     -67.05827
> 0.160E-04    4.10
>          7  0.07992     9.3     -67.13746     -67.13715     -67.05723
> 0.247E-04    4.12
>          8  0.07661     8.0     -67.12951     -67.12925     -67.05263
> 0.344E-04    4.12
>          9  0.07345     6.8     -67.11278     -67.11255     -67.03910
> 0.444E-04    4.12
>         10  0.07518     6.3     -67.07105     -67.07084     -66.99566
> 0.540E-04    4.12
>         11  0.08715     6.5     -66.93991     -66.93970     -66.85254
> 0.633E-04    4.13
>         12  0.12795     7.5     -66.50634     -66.50609     -66.37814
> 0.724E-04    4.11
>         13  0.26154     9.1     -65.05321     -65.05291     -64.79136
> 0.826E-04    4.14
>         14  0.69724    10.9     -60.05817     -60.05781     -59.36057
> 0.945E-04    4.15
>         15  1.85716    12.3     -40.98691     -40.98650     -39.12934
> 0.109E-03    4.15
>         16      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN
> 0.124E-03    3.78
>         17      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.78
>         18      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.78
>         19      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.80
>         20      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.77
>         21      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.77
>         22      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.78
>         23      NaN     NaN           NaN           NaN           NaN NaN
>          3.78
>
> I have used the following MD input in cpmd -----
>
>
> &CPMD
> MOLECULAR DYNAMICS CP
> ISOLATED MOLECULE
> RESTART WAVEFUNCTION COORDINATES LATEST
> TRAJECTORY XYZ
> &END
>
> QUENCH BO
> ANNEALING IONS
> 0.99
> TEMPERATURE
> 300
> EMASS
> 600.
> TIMESTEP
> 5.0
> MAXSTEP
> 10000
> TRAJECTORY SAMPLE
> 0
> STORE
> 100
> RESTFILE
> 1
> &END
>
> &DFT
> FUNCTIONAL BLYP
> &END
>
> &SYSTEM
> ANGSTROM
> POISSON SOLVER TUCKERMAN
> SYMMETRY
> 0
> SYMMETRY
> 0
> CELL
> 11.0 1.0 1.0 0 0 0
> CUTOFF
> 70.0
> CHARGE
> -1.0
> ENERGY PROFILE
> &END
>
> Plz, help me to solve this problem.



Decrease the time-step, increase the ficticious mass, increase the cut-off.



Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban
MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark



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