Dear APSI<br><br>thank you for you suggestions to me.<br><br>I will try it ASAP.<br><br>vega<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Ari Paavo Seitsonen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ari.p.seitsonen@iki.fi">ari.p.seitsonen@iki.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Vega,<br>
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Just my guesses and suggestions: One could try mixing of the density, like<br>
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&electrons<br>
mixing_beta = 0.7<br>
/<br>
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(or a value even smaller than 0.7, or some other parametres for the mixing) since with a defect you might now have defect levels in the band gap, leading to a more difficult a convergence. Eventually one could also switch on the broadening of the occupation numbers, eventually switching it off for the physical/production jobs, but just to check if the problem in convergence comes due to this.<br>
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And in the original paper the authors discuss spin-polarisation, one might test also this (nspin = 2), with different initial magnetisations [starting_magnetization(xx) = ...] for the atoms surrounding the defect.<br>
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Greetings,<br>
<br>
apsi<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, vega lew wrote:<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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I am planning to calculate the Oxygen vacancy properties of TiO2 surfaces.<br>
The calculation for the ideal surfaces are quite normal and the results are<br>
in line with the one that literature reported. But, when I tried to<br>
calculate the anatase 101 surface with an Oxygen vacancy (O2c was removed<br>
directly from the stoichiometric Anatase 101as described in J. Phys. Chem. C<br>
2007, 111, 16397-16404, I encounter the problem of convergence for SCF<br>
cycle. I tried to add 20% more empty band to the system the problem still<br>
laid in. How could I overcome the problem?<br>
<br>
my input file was attached at the bottom of the mail<br>
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thank you for reading. Any hints will be appreciated.<br>
<br>
vega<br>
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&SYSTEM<br>
ibrav = 8,<br>
celldm(1) =19.3269,<br>
celldm(2) = 1.1094,<br>
celldm(3) = 1.7450,<br>
nat = 71,<br>
ntyp = 2,<br>
nosym = .true.,<br>
ecutwfc = 30,<br>
ecutrho = 300,<br>
/<br>
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&ELECTRONS<br>
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/<br>
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&IONS<br>
ion_dynamics = 'bfgs',<br>
/<br>
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