====== Calculations with Periodic Boundary Conditions ======
This short exercise illustrates the property of periodic boundary conditions and at the same time gives you some ideas/skeletons on how to create useful bash scripts. The files you need for this are:
A geometry file for a H2O molecule:
3
Atom X Y Z
O 0.0000000 0.0000000 0.1194180
H 0.0000000 0.7654990 -0.4776700
H 0.0000000 -0.7654990 -0.4776700
A CP2K input file to run a calculation with it:
&GLOBAL
PROJECT h2o_pbc
RUN_TYPE ENERGY
PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
&END GLOBAL
&FORCE_EVAL
METHOD Quickstep ! Electronic structure method (DFT,...)
&DFT
BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_MOLOPT
POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME POTENTIAL
&POISSON ! Solver requested for non periodic calculations
PERIODIC XYZ
&END POISSON
&SCF ! Parameters controlling the convergence of the SCF. This section should not be changed.
SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
EPS_SCF 1.0E-6
MAX_SCF 300
&END SCF
&XC ! Parameters needed to compute the electronic exchange potential
&XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
&END XC_FUNCTIONAL
&END XC
&END DFT
&SUBSYS
&CELL
ABC 10. 10. 10.
PERIODIC XYZ
&END CELL
&TOPOLOGY ! Section used to center the atomic coordinates in the given box. Useful for big molecules
COORD_FILE_FORMAT xyz
COORD_FILE_NAME ./h2o.xyz
&CENTER_COORDINATES
CENTER_POINT 5. 5. 5.
&END
&END
&KIND H
ELEMENT H
BASIS_SET TZVP-MOLOPT-GTH
POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q1
&END KIND
&KIND O
ELEMENT O
BASIS_SET TZVP-MOLOPT-GTH
POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6
&END KIND
&END SUBSYS
&END FORCE_EVAL
And a script to run it:
#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit
set -o nounset
set -o pipefail
xseq=$(seq 5 0.1 6)
for x in $xseq; do
rm -f "h2o_pbc_x-${x}.out"
sed \
-e "s|h2o_pbc|h2o_pbc_x-$x|" \
-e "s|CENTER_POINT .*|CENTER_POINT $x 5. 5.|" \
h2o_pbc.inp > "h2o_pbc_x-${x}.inp"
cp2k.popt -i "h2o_pbc_x-${x}.inp" -o "h2o_pbc_x-${x}.out" &
done
for job in $(jobs -p) ; do
wait $job
done
# create or truncate the file named "energies"
:>| energies
for x in $xseq; do
energy=$(awk '/Total FORCE_EVAL/ { print $9 }' "h2o_pbc_x-${x}.out")
echo "$x $energy" >> energies
done
You have to mark the script as an executable after creating it, using:
$ chmod +x run.sh
===== Create a plot =====
Run the script after loading the CP2K module:
$ ./run.sh
Besides various input and output files, you should get a file named ''energies''.
* Plot it, including meaningful axis labels. To that end, try to understand the provided script. Looking at the difference between the initially provided input file ''h2o_pbc.inp'' and the newly created input files may give a hint. The command ''$ diff h2o_pbc.inp SOMEOTHERFILE'' may also help.
* What would you expect from such a plot and why? What order is the deviation from what you would expect? What could be the source for this deviation?
===== Make the script your own =====
* Read the script and try to understand the commands. Look them up using your favorite search engine, the man pages on the system (''$ man sed'' for example) or try them out by hand on the command line.
* Try to document the script in such a way that you will still understand it when looking at it again in a year or two (so, not every detail, but make sure to cover the obscure stuff and the big blocks)
* Change the script to calculate energies for ''x=z=5.'' and ''y=2,2.2,2.4,..,7.6,7.8,8.0'' and plot them again.