<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Dear QE Team,</div><div><br></div><div>I have the feeling that there is a bug in the v.7.2 in the setting SCF (electronic)</div><div>convergence treshold for the vc-relax option.</div><div>This user-setting works for the first geometry iteration and falls to the default value in the next geometry.</div><div>It would be good either to keep it as it is set by the user.</div><div>Or better, it could be changed down progressively in the following geometry iterations</div><div>in a way given by the user.</div><div><br></div><div>Why is it very important? <br></div><div>Immagine a glass of 6-component oxides and rare earth ions and large cells......</div><div>Etotal jumps down by 7 eV in the subsequent geometry and SCF convergence</div><div>improves from 0.01 eV to 0.0001 eV but still it is far from defaultĀ 1^-6 eV.</div><div><br></div><div>With best regards,</div><div>Gosia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">
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