Dear Gulp users
I am new user of GULP (materials studio 8) and I would like to help me to determine the diffusion factor of Li in LiFePO4, I use the BVS forcefield (Stefan Adams).
I have problem in the parametres of NPT simulation,
how much pressure I applied
the thermostat parameter
the barostat parametre
thank you
Dear Youssef,
To learn about computing diffusion coefficients (I’m assuming this is what you mean) then I would recommend reading one of the two standard texts on MD - Allen & Tildesley or Frenkel & Smit. This will also help to understand how to select thermostats & barostats to achieve a reasonable ensemble.
It should be noted that GULP is more focused on lattice dynamics than molecular dynamics & so for materials with slow diffusion on an MD timescale it would make more sense to compute the barriers to diffusion and use transition state theory to obtain the rates of hopping between minima. The overall diffusion can then be determine by a higher level approach on top of this information, such as kinetic Monte Carlo.
Hope that helps,
Julian
Dear Julian
Thank you very much
Dear Julian
How can I get academic license for GULP (Linux)
Thank You
Provided your email domain is recognised as being a University then you just agree to the conditions & everything is automated at the GULP website. If your domain is not recognised as being a University then you need to send a message to gulpcode at curtin.edu.au to ask for it to be added.
Regards,
Julian
Dear Julian
I have registered in this link
https://gulp.curtin.edu.au/gulp/register.cgi.html
by using two official mail
[email protected]
[email protected]
You can check my profile
I didn’t have any response from your site
Thank you very much
Dear Youssef
Glad you’ve registered with the system OK. The reason for no response from the email is because it was our national day this week & the last week of summer holidays. Even academics don’t work 365 days a year. 
Regards,
Julian
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Thank you Julian