Liquid Si - Freezing

Description: script performs molecular dynamics runs on liquid Si a decreasing temperatures, starting at 2000 K and ending at 800 K. This should contain the transition from liquid Si to crystalline Si (amorphous).

script

for i in 2000 1900 1800 1700 1600 1500 1400 1300 1200 1100 1000 900 800
do
cat >INCAR <<!
ISMEAR = 0 ; SIGMA = 0.1
LREAL = Auto ; ALGO = VeryFast ; PREC = Normal
ISYM = 0

IBRION = 0 ; TEBEG =$i ; NSW = 400; POTIM = 3.0
SMASS = 1 ; KBLOCK = 200
!
mpirun -np 2 /path/to/your/vasp/executable
cp XDATCAR XDATCAR.$i
cp OUTCAR OUTCAR.$i
cp PCDAT PCDAT.$i
cp CONTCAR CONTCAR.$i
cp POSCAR POSCAR.$i
cp OSZICAR OSZICAR.$i
cp CONTCAR POSCAR
done

KPOINTS

test
0 0 0
monk
 1 1 1
 0 0 0

POSCAR

Si
15.12409564534287297131
     0.5000000000000000    0.5000000000000000    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    0.5000000000000000    0.5000000000000000
     0.5000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    0.5000000000000000
  48
Direct
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  0.6686412136025504  0.7848666926903073  0.5681234351534038

Download

Si_liquid.tgz

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