<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Agostino Migliore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amigliore@cmm.upenn.edu">amigliore@cmm.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello Alex<br>
<br>
Since, you have transition metals in your system, it could help you to<br>
introduce an electronic smearing and then progressively reduce it until<br>
you get the solution without any orbital fractional occupations.<br>
Then, from the attached file I saw that you are using mixing_beta =<br>
0.7D0. Did you try something like mixing_beta = 0.5 or similar (perhaps<br>
you already did, but I don't know) and also mixing_mode = 'plain'<br>
(although I know that the local_TF mode may be good for highly<br>
inhomogeneous systems).<br>
Finally, your system includes Ti atoms, which have d electrons. Have you<br>
tried to use the Hubbard U correction scheme implemented in pwscf? Also<br>
irrespective of your convergence problem, it could provide you with a<br>
better description of the electronic structure (indeed, I don't have<br>
direct experience on Ti, but I have on Fe, and the Hubbard U correction<br>
term works well).<br>
I hope something I said can help you.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Agostino Migliore<br>
CMM, Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia<br>
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Quoting Alexej Mazheika <<a href="mailto:alex.mazheika@gmail.com">alex.mazheika@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> Dear all<br>
><br>
> I perform the calculations of surface with adsorbed cluster Ag4/TiO2 and<br>
> have a problem with convergence during SCF-procedure. It does not converge.<br>
> In order to eliminate it I tried the shown methods in the user_guide: to<br>
> decrease mixing beta, to increase mixing ndim, to increase ecutwfc and<br>
> ecutrho. But it didn't help me. Is there any other methods to solve such<br>
> problem? The input file is here attached.<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
> Alex Mazheika, Research Institute for phys. and chem. problems, Minsk,<br>
> Belarus<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div>I tried to use mixing_beta 0.3, mixing_ndim 10, mixing_mode = 'local-TF' and I changed the diagonalization to 'diis'. I performed the calculations with such parameters: occupations = 'smearing', degauss = 3.7D-3, smearing = 'gaussian'. And then the covergance was achieved.<br>
Thank you for recommendations<br>Best regards<br>Alex Mazheika, Research Institute for phys. and chem. problems, Minsk, Belarus <br>