hello friend<br>can you name a good resource on knowing what smearing is?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicola Marzari</b> <<a href="mailto:marzari@mit.edu">marzari@mit.edu
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><br>Hi Jess, you should use a smearing instead (usually methfessel-paxton or
<br>marzari-vanderbilt). You need to use a small value - try 0.4 eV<br>(remember, pwscf uses Ry, so divide by 13.6), and make sure<br>that whatever you want to calculate is converged with respect<br>to k-points.<br><br>0.4eV
might be too large for a lot of critical properties - so decrease<br>it (and increase, by a lot, the kpoints) and see if things change.<br><br> nicola<br><br><br>Jess Kondor wrote:<br>><br>
> Hello, everyone,<br>><br>> I have a question about smearing methods and relaxation, in<br>> particularly tetrahedron method and structural optimization in case of<br>> metals. VASP manual recommends do not use tetrahedron method in
<br>> relaxation of metals because this method is not variational with respect<br>> to the partial occupancies, which means, that the calculated forces are<br>> wrong by 5 to 10 % in metals. Is it applicable in pwscf case? I am
<br>> studying magnetic system (which is metal without U correction, and<br>> should be insulator with LSDA+U) and I am not sure it is good idea to<br>> use 'tetrahedra' in this case. What do you suggest?<br>>
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