Hi, folks!
I recently used cp2k6.1 to simulate organic molecular crystal systems at a temperature of 100K in the NPT_F ensemble. After the system reached thermal equilibrium, the unit cell volume decreased significantly. However, the optimized structure obtained using VASP changes insignificantly compared to the initial structure. Here are some basic settings of my CP2k. Could anyone help point out which parameter settings are the key issues to influence the cell parameters? Main parameters:
&MD ENSEMBLE NPT_F ! The length of an integration step TIMESTEP 1.0 ! The number of MD steps to perform STEPS 5000 ! The temperature in K used to initialize the velocities TEMPERATURE 100 &BAROSTAT PRESSURE 1 TIMECON 100.00 &END BAROSTAT &THERMOSTAT TYPE NOSE &NOSE TIMECON 100.00 &END NOSE &END THERMOSTAT METHOD QS STRESS_TENSOR ANALYTICAL &DFT &QS METHOD gpw EPS_DEFAULT 1e-12 EXTRAPOLATION ASPC EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3 &END QS CHARGE 0 MULTIPLICITY 1 BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_MOLOPT POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME GTH_POTENTIALS &MGRID NGRIDS 4 CUTOFF 400 REL_CUTOFF 60 &END MGRID &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE &END XC_FUNCTIONAL &VDW_POTENTIAL POTENTIAL_TYPE PAIR_POTENTIAL &PAIR_POTENTIAL PARAMETER_FILE_NAME dftd3.dat TYPE DFTD3 REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE #R_CUTOFF [angstrom] 16 &END PAIR_POTENTIAL &END VDW_POTENTIAL &SCF ADDED_MOS 0 SCF_GUESS ATOMIC EPS_SCF 1e-06 MAX_SCF 70 &KIND H BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q1 &END KIND &KIND C BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q4 &END KIND &KIND O BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6 &END KIND &KIND S BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6 &END KIND &KIND N BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q5 &END KIND