SYSTEM = liquid Si

! ab initio
ISMEAR = 0        ! Gaussian smearing
SIGMA  = 0.1      ! smearing in eV

LREAL  = Auto     ! projection operators in real space

ALGO   = VeryFast ! RMM-DIIS for electronic relaxation
PREC   = Low      ! precision
ISYM   = 0        ! no symmetry imposed

! MD
IBRION = 0        ! MD (treat ionic degrees of freedom)
NSW    = 30       ! no of ionic steps
POTIM  = 3.0      ! MD time step in fs

MDALGO = 2        ! Nosé-Hoover thermostat
SMASS  = 1.0      ! Nosé mass

TEBEG  = 2000     ! temperature at beginning
TEEND  = 2000     ! temperature at end
ISIF   = 2        ! update positions; cell shape and volume fixed
