Dear Stefano,
The fcc unit cell isn’t it 4 atoms per cell? Actually I have tried to set the 
braves lattice to sc with same input. And it shows me a more better result.
But for Pd, it can be easily find that it’s fcc structure.
Maybe I misunderstand something. Please correct me.
Thank you again!

xiao 

> On 20 Apr 2015, at 23:20, stefano de gironcoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Xiao,
>    there is a factor of 4 in the volume per unit-cell between sc and fcc. 
> just geometry.
>    I don't really know what you have calculated but the energy one should 
> feed to ev.x is the energy per unit cell as you have used in the pw.x 
> calculation. So if in the ev.x input you say that your cell is fcc then you 
> should use the energy computed with the fcc unit cell (1 Pd atom per cell). 
> If your energy was computed in the sc unit cell (that has 4 Pd atoms in the 
> unit cell) then you should specify sc in the ev.x input. just be consistent. 
> 
> stefano
> 
> On 20/04/2015 22:31, Xiao wrote:
>> Dear Stefano,
>> Yes! I used a fcc unit cell. It should have a factor 4. Thank you!!!
>> But can you explain why there is a 4 times relation between fcc and sc?
>> I don’t really understand why it happens.
>> 
>> best
>> xiao
>>> On 20 Apr 2015, at 22:09, stefano de gironcoli <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Xiao,
>>>   are you using the fcc unit cell (1 atom/cell) or the SC one (4 
>>> atoms/cell) ?
>>>   that would make a factor of 4 in your bulk modulus.
>>> stefano
>>> 
>>> On 20/04/2015 21:34, 杨潇 wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for my mistake of previous email! It should be Ry I used.
>>>> 
>>>> As I am using the ev.x to fitting EOS on Pd. I got the wrong bulk modulus. 
>>>> Here is my procedure. Please  help me check what’s wrong with my fitting? 
>>>> input data in Å and Ry.
>>>> 
>>>> 3.7351  -1.455513098
>>>> 3.8129  -1.5041846
>>>> 3.8907  -1.527184909
>>>> 3.9685  -1.530334715
>>>> 4.0463  -1.51819883
>>>> 4.1241  -1.4945274
>>>> 
>>>>      Lattice parameter or Volume are in (au, Ang) > Ang
>>>>      Assuming Angstrom
>>>>      Enter type of bravais lattice (fcc, bcc, sc, noncubic) > fcc
>>>>      Enter type of equation of state :
>>>>      1=birch1, 2=birch2, 3=keane, 4=murnaghan > 2
>>>> then I get the output file like below:
>>>> 
>>>> # equation of state: birch 3rd order.  chisq = 0.3034D-10
>>>> # a0 =  7.4514 a.u., k0 = 6726 kbar, dk0 =  5.51 d2k0 = -0.001 emin =   
>>>> -1.53118
>>>> # a0 =  3.94309 Ang, k0 = 672.7 GPa,  V0 = 103.430 (a.u.)^3,  V0 = 15.327 
>>>> A^3 
>>>> 
>>>> #########################################################################
>>>> # Lat.Par       E_calc        E_fit       E_diff    Pressure      Enthalpy
>>>> # Ang             Ry           Ry            Ry        GPa           Ry
>>>> #########################################################################
>>>>   3.73510      -1.45551      -1.45551     0.00000     170.75       -0.43510
>>>>   3.81290      -1.50418      -1.50418    -0.00000      89.34       -0.93621
>>>>   3.89070      -1.52718      -1.52719     0.00001      30.14       -1.32358
>>>>   3.96850      -1.53033      -1.53033    -0.00001     -12.29       -1.61843
>>>>   4.04630      -1.51820      -1.51820     0.00001     -42.10       -1.83804
>>>>   4.12410      -1.49453      -1.49453    -0.00000     -62.42       -1.99662
>>>> ~                                                                          
>>>>  
>>>> The k0 here is 672.7GPa, it should be 180GPa more or less. And I fitted 
>>>> same data with another software, it gives me 167GPa.
>>>> 
>>>> So Please Help Me What’s Wrong With My Fitting?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you!!!
>>>> 
>>>> best
>>>> xiao
>>>> 
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