hi everyone, <br> When I do raman calculation of Li2O, I found the "second order response" process is not convergent. The log is below:<br><br> iter # 1 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 8.1 thresh=
0.100E-01 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.208E-03<br> iter # 2 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 13.1 thresh= 0.144E-02 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.905E-01<br> iter # 3 <a href="http://av.it">
av.it</a>.: 11.0 thresh= 0.100E-01 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.228E-03<br> iter # 4 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 8.8 thresh= 0.151E-02 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.178E-03<br> iter # 5
<a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 10.9 thresh= 0.133E-02 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.118E-08 <br> iter # 6 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 12.6 thresh= 0.343E-05 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 =
0.155E-07<br> iter # 7 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 9.6 thresh= 0.124E-04 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.279E-08<br> iter # 8 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 11.9 thresh= 0.529E-05
alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.191E-08<br> iter # 9 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 11.9 thresh= 0.437E-05 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.402E-07<br> iter # 10 <a href="http://av.it">av.it
</a>.: 10.9 thresh= 0.201E-04 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.437E-08<br>.............................(omitted)<br> iter # 42 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 10.7 thresh= 0.855E-07 alpha_mix =
0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.201E-11<br> iter # 43 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 11.9 thresh= 0.142E-06 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.181E-12<br> iter # 44 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 13.6
thresh= 0.425E-07 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.546E-10<br> iter # 45 <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 10.2 thresh= 0.739E-06 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.190E-11<br> iter # 46 <a href="http://av.it">
av.it</a>.: 11.0 thresh= 0.138E-06 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.111E-11<br><br>and the ph input file as:<br>&inputph<br> tr2_ph=1.0d-14,<br> prefix='li2O',<br> amass(1)= 6.941,<br> amass(2)=
15.999,<br> fildyn='li2O.dynG',<br> epsil=.true.,<br> trans=.true.,<br> lraman=.true.,<br> outdir='/home/qgr/_work_/li2O/raman/temp',<br>/<br>0 0 0 <br> And in the scf input file, conv_thr =
1.0d-12 with my own Li and O PPs generated using fhi98PP code.<br> How can I solve the problem?<br> What is more wried, this situation never happened days before when using the exactly same input file and PPs. That is , I cannot repeat the result again with all the same input file though I check all the input file carefully. The scf result are the same, but the
ph.x gave different convergence process. Besides, I got different raman frequencies.<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Bests, Qian<br><br>