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		                        | 10:09:21 PM PST - Mon, Dec 12th 2011  | 
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		                        Hi, all. 
I have an issue with reproducing data (temperture) in restarting CPMD simulation. I ran the CPMD simulation using PSPW(psedopotential planewave). It is NVE simulation, and I didn’t use any thermostat method. Because I set the number of time steps too less, the simulation was completed before the temperature of the system was equilibrated. So, I restarted program to resume the simulation. To make sure the restart had been correctly done, I checked the .xyz and .energy files- the ones at the last time step in the original simulation and the others at the first time step of restarted simulation. xyz files are exactly same, and kinetic/ potential energies look pretty much same. But there is big discrepancy in temperature: 1230K vs 150K.  
 
I have two questions regarding this restarted simulation. First, what should I do to reproduce the temperature correctly. Is there any command to be added in input file for that? Second, To my knowledge, the temperature is calculated based on the velocities of atoms. In my restarted-simulation, atom velocities were correctly read. So, I’m thinking the temperature also should be same. Would you briefly explain why I got the different temperature in a restarted simulation. As a student, any comments on that would be greatly helpful and appreciated.  
 
I attach the input file for your reference. 
 
 
  
 
geometry units an noautosym noautoz print 
 # geometry info   
 
end 
 
pspw 
 simulation_cell 
    ngrid 32 32 32 
 end 
 cutoff 29 
 ewald_ncut 8 
 xc xperdew91 
 dos 
 mulliken 
 
 
 DPLOT 
    VECTORS input.movecs 
    DENSITY total edensity 
  END 
     
  Car-Parrinello 
    fake_mass 400.0 
    time_step 5 
    xc xperdew91 
    loop 1 2000 
    xyz_filename traj.xyz 
    ion_motion_filename ionmotion 
    emotion_filename energy 
    EIGMOTION_FILENAME eigenvalues 
  end 
 
end 
 
set pspw_dplot:iteration_list 1000 
task pspw energy 
task pspw Car-Parrinello
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