[Pw_forum] Why the calculated equilibrium lattice parameters

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at nest.sns.it
Wed Nov 14 10:24:25 CET 2007


On Nov 14, 2007, at 4:03 , 岩 李 wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your advice. I want to simulate equation of states  
> for cubic CsI.

get the pseudopotentials for Cs and I on pwscf.org and try those first.
Once you have obtained a decent equation of state, you can start to
experiment with different pseudopotentials, different functionals,
different cutoffs/k-points/whatever, better if changing things one at
the time

P.
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