Dear all siesta users,

i am trying to relax cell parameters in rhombohedral unit cell.

But stress tensor components are not becoming less than 1.0
GPa. However pressure is ~zero.

part of output is:-

Stress-tensor-Voigt (kbar):      -61.58       29.02       32.56
-23.03       -3.31      -13.80
siesta: Pressure (static):
siesta:           0.00120848         -0.00280164  kBar

I used these options:-

MD.MaxStressTol  1.0 GPa
MD.TargetPressure  0.0 GPa
%block MD.TargetStress
-1.0 -1.0 -1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
%endblock MD.TargetStress

What should i do to reduce it?

Also, interesting thing is that off diagonal stress components are non-zero,
but should be zero. Is this explainable?

Thank you.

regards,
Sonu
IITD

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