Re: [QE-users] Convergence wrt. to cutoff: VdW vs. no VdW correction

2019-05-19 Thread Fabrizio Cossu
Dear Chris and Paolo, I experienced slightly different behaviour between the inclusion or not of vdw-d. I'm using QE 6.3, on a layered material with vdW bondings between layers. I would think such behaviour is normal, as vdW corrections modify the distance between layers, hence the expansion of

Re: [QE-users] Convergence wrt. to cutoff: VdW vs. no VdW correction

2019-05-15 Thread Paolo Giannozzi
Very strange: as far as I remember. dft-d3 does not depend upon the cutoff Paolo On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:48 AM Christoph Wolf wrote: > Dear all, > > I noticed something interesting: when testing the convergence of total > energy wrt. ecutwfc (keeping ecutrho at 4*ecutwfc and using NC PPs)

[QE-users] Convergence wrt. to cutoff: VdW vs. no VdW correction

2019-05-14 Thread Christoph Wolf
Dear all, I noticed something interesting: when testing the convergence of total energy wrt. ecutwfc (keeping ecutrho at 4*ecutwfc and using NC PPs) the convergence without vdW is fairly straightforward and monotonous, however with grimme-d3 VdW correction applied the behavior of total energy