ExtFPMD
This page gives hints on how to perform calculation with the extended FPMD model.
Introduction¶
Extended First-Principles Molecular Dynamics (Ext. FPMD) method allows to perform high temperature simulations from few Kelvins to thousands of eVs, by drastically reducing the needed number of bands for high temperature simulations [Blanchet2020]. The implementation and usage is described in [Blanchet2022].
High energy orbitals are replaced with pure single plane waves description based on the Fermi gas model. Bands from 1 to nband are treated with the complete plane waves basis set as usual, and the rest of occupied bands from nband to the infinity are treated with the Fermi gas model. Contributions to the energy, entropy, stresses, number of electrons and chemical potential are computed automatically after enabling the model with variable useextfpmd. Conventional convergency studies are still needed to get accurate results.
Contributions to the number of electrons and to the energy are explicitly shown in the _GSR.nc output file with key nelect_extfpmd and e_extfpmd (edc_extfpmd for the double counting term). The energy shift (resulting from the constant background potential) is also printed in the _GSR.nc output file with key extfpmd_eshift.
Related Input Variables¶
basic:
- extfpmd_nband EXTended FPMD: Number of Bands
- extfpmd_nbcut EXTended FPMD: Number of Bands at CUT
- extfpmd_nbdbuf EXTended FPMD: Number of BanDs for the BUFfer
- useextfpmd USE EXTended FPMD model
Selected Input Files¶
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