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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dear PWSCF users,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I just want to get advices from your experiences. Now I'm trying to calculate phonons of a Ni slab.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Only one of the modes won't converge. Number of its iteration is going beyond 100. Worst of all, even after 100 iterations, |ddv_scf|^2 is more than 0.4E+8. The other modes usually converged within 6 or 7 iterations. I don't get any error messages during the phonon calculation. Could any of you who have experience with phonon calculation with PWSCF advise me about this trouble? What could be the reason? Obviously the structure relaxation was done completely for phonon calculation. The residual forces in the slab are very low.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just another question: Is there any way to know the frequencies of the already converged modes in PWSCF? Or is it impossible?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks a lot!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sampyo</FONT>
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