total energy in scf and nscf

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total energy in scf and nscf

#1 Post by wangqj1 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:07 pm

Dear all
I want to know which total energy is exact in the OUTCAR of scf and nscf ? In my results,the total energy in nscf is lower than scf , which I should select ?
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#2 Post by wangqj1 » Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:35 am

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#4 Post by zoowe » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:02 pm

what does the letter N in nscf stand for?
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#5 Post by cenwanglai » Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:00 am

Non self consistent field
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#6 Post by cenwanglai » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:53 am

scf energy is what you needed.
if ISMEAR = -5, grep "TOTEN" OUTCAR
else, grep energy withou entropy OUTCAR
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