Thank you everybody for finding a very critical bug in my setup, yes The distances are actually double of what they're supposed to be<br><br>Will try to fix that!...another thing ....how does changing the number of gamma points help the system to converge?...and is there any thumb rule for choosing the number of gamma points? <br><br>Vidur<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Stefano de Gironcoli <degironc@sissa.it></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> This may not be totally relevant but ... have you checked that the <br>configuration you are using makes sense ?<br>By visualizing it with xcrysden it appear that the carbon-carbon <br>distances are all larger than 3 angstrom ... so your system is a <br>collection of weakly interacting atoms, probably with very narrow bands. <br>Technically this may be the origin of the instability, but ...is this <br>the system you want to study
?<br>Hpe it helps<br>stefano<br>Stefano de Gironcoli - SISSA and DEMOCRITOS<br><br><br><br>Vidur Parkash wrote:<br>> Hi<br>> <br>> I'm trying to perform a SCf calculation on a carbon nanotube cluster<br>> (metallic system), and no matter what i do the results do not<br>> converge.<br>> I've tried changing the mixing factor, add a smearing, tried a<br>> different type of charge mixing, change number of k points etc.<br>><br>> The input file I've attached is the closest it ever reached towards<br>> convergence with accuracy better than 0.1 Ry...but ultimately failing<br>> to converge. <br>> <br>> <br>> Can you please suggest some solutions. The input file is attached<br>> this time.<br>> <br>> Thanks<br>> <br>> Vidur Parkash<br>><br>> Michigan Tech University<br>> 716 EERC, 1400 Townsend Drive<br>> Houghton MI-49931, USA<br>> Tel: 1-906-487-0023<br>><br>>
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pw_forum mailing list<br>> Pw_forum@pwscf.org<br>> http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum<br>> <br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>Vidur Parkash<br><br>Michigan Technological University<br>716 EERC, 1400 Townsend Drive<br>Houghton, MI-49931, USA<br>Tel: 1-906-487-0023<br>