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Hi,<br>
I am doing an energy minimization for a carbon nanotube (end
capped with hydrogen atoms) in a box of water. I get the following
message:<br>
<font color="#3333ff">" Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.<br>
Converged to machine precision,<br>
but not to the requested precision Fmax < 10<br>
<br>
Double precision normally gives you higher accuracy.<br>
You might need to increase your constraint accuracy, or turn off
constraints altogether (set constraints = none in mdp file)<br>
<br>
Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 1836 steps, but did
not reach the requested Fmax < 10.<br>
Potential Energy = -2.4277438+06<br>
Maximum force = 5.9858018+03 on atom 13<br>
Norm of force = 5.1364398+04"</font><br>
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The potential energy is extremely low and the maximum force is
considerably large. I turned off the constrained and tried other energy
minimization methods but still got the same error (with different
magnitudes of the force and energy of course). Is it likely that double
precision simulation can make such a big difference? If not (which I
think) is there any other way to solve the problem?<br>
<br>
Thank you very much in advance,<br>
George Abadir<br>
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