Hi, everyone,<br><br> I have a question. Sometimes (at least, I found several times in the papers for ferroelectrics), we need to relax a system with very tight criteria for forces - up to 1 meV/Ang ( ~4.0d-5 in `pw (a.u.)` units). However, I found that it is hard to achieve this criteria. If I use 'bfgs' with conv_thr =
1.d-6 (or better) and upscale = 10.d0 , calculations often crashes with message ''bfgs history was reset on the previous step...' and number of bfgs steps = 15, number of scf steps = 2 . If I switch a relaxation method to 'damp' with dt=
70.0, after one (or two) ionic steps forces are small, but then 'Total force' increases rapidly (from 0.001 to 0.4 or something) and remains almost constant. So, are there any other parameters which can help in geometry relaxation?
<br clear="all"><br>cheers,<br> Jess