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Hi all,

How bad are wrap around errors when doing a relaxation?
Do wrap around errors significantly affect the calculated forces?
Or do they have marginal effects on the final structure?

Thanks,
Rob.

please have a look at the vasp-workshop tutorial handout accuracy.pdf which you can download from http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-workshop
for a detailled discussion of that question

Dear admin,

The vasp-workshop tutorial mentions on page 26:

for Accurate wrap around errors are avoided...

but when I use PREC=Accurate, then I still get:

WARNING: wrap around errors must be expected

Well, something is confusing me here.

The VASP Guide says in the chapter on "Energy cut-off ENCUT
and FFT-mesh" that the drift forces should be smaller than the
size of the forces interested in.
I'm relaxing a system till the forces are smaller than 0.01 eV/A
(EDIFFG = -0.01).
Should I therefore change ENCUT (or: NGX, NGY and NGZ ?)
so that the drift force is much less than 0.01?

Thanks,
Rob.

rather increase ENCUT, it may be risky to fix NGX NGY and NGZ if your cell changes in shape and volume upon relaxation. If they are fixed, you can as well fix NGX NGY and NGZ

download it from the VASP-workshop files:
http://cms.mpi.univie.ac.at/vasp-workshop
(tutorials and session talks)