how to chose the energy in OUTCAR?

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how to chose the energy in OUTCAR?

#1 Post by dyc_2008 » Wed Jun 08, 2011 2:51 pm

dear all
there are three ENERGYs in OUTCAR.
how we chose the reasonable one we need.
thanks
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how to chose the energy in OUTCAR?

#2 Post by juhL » Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:02 pm

as commented in many posts before i think you should take the free energy TOTEN, since you are including SIGMA into your calculation, however be aware, that the difference between free energy and energy(sigma->0) shouldn't differ much
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