Is there any technical reasons for this?
I was supposing that simply changing only celldm(1) should work.

Dear Carlo,
in a sense you are right, but the BFGS algorithm relaxes the 9 Cartesian cell components, it is not aware of ibrav, this requires some minor coding ans probably not a huge deal but has to be done. Also, in order to estimate convergence you have to be able to say when the pressure is minimized in the constrained relaxation, i.e. you have to project the pressure on ibrav, which requires some ibrav-dependent algebra.

The advantage of the damp-w algorithm, is that it only uses energy to decide convergence. Its disadvantage, is that it only uses energy to estimate convergence.

What you can always do, is a few constant-cell relax at different values of ibrav, then fit with ev.x


cheers

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Lorenzo Paulatto - Paris
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