Dear all<br><br>i have a question about the pseudo potential of Pt.pw91-n-van.UPF. <br><br clear="all">When I want to calculate the total energy of Pt atom in a large box, the calculation could coverge. the box is consistent with the surface calculation. the calculated value of total energy in output file is -88.64000965 Ry which is a little different from the value, -88.64879046471 Ry, in the Pt.pw91-n-van.UPF file. do you think the deviation is acceptable?<br>
<br>And when I add more empty band, two or three more, in the system using 'nbnd' command , the calculation can't coverge with 100 scf cycles. How do you think about it?<br><br>My input files as follows,<br>                                                                                          <br>
 &CONTROL                                                                                 <br>                       title = 'Pt' ,                                        <br>                 calculation = 'scf' ,                                                  <br>
                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,                                           <br>                      outdir = '/tmp/' ,   <br>                      wfcdir = '/tmp/' ,                                                  <br>
                  pseudo_dir = '/home/vega/espresso-4.0/pseudo/' ,     <br>                      prefix = 'Pt' ,                                        <br>                     disk_io = 'none' ,                                                   <br>
                       nstep = 1000 ,                                                     <br> /                                                                                        <br> &SYSTEM                                                                                  <br>
                       ibrav = 8,                                                         <br>                   celldm(1) =19.6144,<br>                   celldm(2) = 1.0955,<br>                   celldm(3) = 1.7218,<br>                         nat = 1,                                                       <br>
                        ntyp = 1,                                                         <br>                       nosym = .ture. ,                                                   <br>                   ecutwfc   =   30,<br>
                   ecutrho   =  300,<br>                        nbnd = 8,                     # or nbnd =7, the calculation can't converge for this two value<br>/                                                                                        <br>
 &ELECTRONS                                                                               <br>                                                                                          <br> /                                                                                        <br>
 &IONS                                                                                    <br>                                            <br> /                                                                                        <br>
ATOMIC_SPECIES                                                                             <br>   Pt  195.09000  Pt.pw91-n-van.UPF                                                    <br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal  <br>Pt    0.68061   0.25139   0.40394     1     1     1<br>
K_POINTS gamma                     <br><br>thank you for reading <br><br>vega<br><br>-- <br>==================================================================================<br>Vega Lew ( weijia liu)<br>PH.D Candidate in Chemical Engineering<br>
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