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<SECTION sectiontitle='Relaxation'>
<CHOICE instruction='Which kind of relaxation do you wish to perform ?'>
<DECISION description='optimize the atomic positions only'>
<MOUSEENTRY instruction='Choose the technique used to optimize the atomic positions (ionmov)'>
<OPTION description='molecular dynamics with optional viscous damping' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='1'/>
<OPTION description='conjugate gradient algorithm for simultaneous optimization of potential and ionic degrees of freedom' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='4'/>
<OPTION description='simple relaxation of ionic positions according to (converged) forces' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='5'/>
<OPTION description='molecular dynamics using the Verlet algorithm' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='6'/>
<OPTION description='quenched molecular dynamics using the Verlet algorithm' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='7'/>
<OPTION description='molecular dynamics with Nose-Hoover thermostat, using the Verlet algorithm' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='8'/>
<OPTION description='Langevin molecular dynamics' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='9'/>
<OPTION description='isokinetic ensemble molecular dynamics' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='12'/>
</MOUSEENTRY>
</DECISION>
<DECISION description='optimize the atomic positions as well as the cell geometry'>
<MOUSEENTRY instruction='Choose the technique used to optimize the atmic positions (ionmov)'>
<OPTION description='structural optimization using the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno minimization (BFGS)' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='2'/>
<OPTION description='BFGS minimization, modified to take into account the total energy as well as the gradients (as in usual BFGS)' variablename='ionmov' variablevalue='3'/>
</MOUSEENTRY>
<MOUSEENTRY instruction='Choose the technique used to optimize the geometry of the unit cell (optcell)'>
<OPTION description='optimisation of volume only (rprim unchanged ; homogenous dilatation of acell)' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='1'/>
<OPTION description='full optimization of cell geometry (modify rprim and acell)' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='2'/>
<OPTION description='constant-volume optimization of cell geometry (modify acell and rprim under constant volume constraint)' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='3'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(1) while keeping acell(2) and acell(3) unchanged (only works if acell(1) is orthogonal to acell(2) and acell(3))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='4'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(2) while keeping acell(1) and acell(3) unchanged (only works if acell(2) is orthogonal to acell(1) and acell(3))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='5'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(3) while keeping acell(1) and acell(2) unchanged (only works if acell(3) is orthogonal to acell(1) and acell(2))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='6'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(2) and acell(3) while keeping acell(1) unchanged (only works if acell(1) is orthogonal to acell(2) and acell(3))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='7'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(1) and acell(3) while keeping acell(2) unchanged (only works if acell(2) is orthogonal to acell(1) and acell(3))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='8'/>
<OPTION description='optimize acell(1) and acell(2) while keeping acell(3) unchanged (only works if acell(3) is orthogonal to acell(1) and acell(2))' variablename='optcell' variablevalue='9'/>
</MOUSEENTRY>
<KEYBOARDENTRY instruction='Enter the maximal permitted scaling of the lattice parameters during the cell optimization (dilatmx)' variablename='dilatmx' textlen='1'/>
<KEYBOARDENTRY instruction='Enter the energy cutoff smearing (ecutsm) (recommended value : 0.5 Ha)' variablename='ecutsm' textlen='1'/>
</DECISION>
<KEYBOARDENTRY instruction='Enter the maximal absolute force tolerance (in hartree/bohr) below which BFGS structural relaxation iterations will stop (tolmxf)' variablename='tolmxf' textlen='1'/>
<KEYBOARDENTRY instruction='Enter the maximum number of structural optimization steps over which calculation will automatically stop (ntime)' variablename='ntime' textlen='1'/>
</CHOICE>
</SECTION>
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