You can try larger ecutwfc=80.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/1 Pablo Aguado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paguado@gmail.com">paguado@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear all,<br><br>I'm doing some tests on the structural optimization with pw. I'm<br>currently testing with the tetragonal structure of PbTiO3, using the<br>
following input:<br><br>&control<br> calculation = 'vc-relax'<br> restart_mode = 'restart'<br> pseudo_dir = '/****/espresso-4.1/pseudo/'<br> outdir = '/***/tmp'<br> forc_conv_thr = 1d-3<br>
nstep = 50<br> /<br> &system<br> ibrav=6<br> celldm(1)=7.3699<br> celldm(3)=1.04<br> nat=5<br> ntyp=3<br> nbnd=28<br> ecutwfc=30.0<br> occupations = 'fixed'<br> /<br> &electrons<br> conv_thr = 1d-12,<br>
mixing_beta=0.4,<br> /<br> &ions<br> ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'<br> bfgs_ndim = 5<br> /<br> &cell<br> cell_dynamics = 'damp-pr'<br> press_conv_thr = 1.0d0<br> cell_dofree = 'z'<br> /<br>
ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> Pb 207.2 Pb.pz-d-van.UPF<br> Ti 47.867 Ti.pz-sp-van_ak.UPF<br> O 15.9994 O.pz-van_ak.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br> Pb 0.000 0.000 0.040 0 0 1<br> Ti 0.500 0.500 0.520 0 0 1<br>
O 0.000 0.500 0.500 0 0 1<br> O 0.500 0.500 0.000 0 0 1<br> O 0.500 0.000 0.500 0 0 1<br>K_POINTS automatic<br> 6 6 6 1 1 1<br><br>The relaxation is taking forever so I've checked the output and I've<br>
found several steps where everything seems to be converged (notice I'm<br>only relaxing out-of-plane lattice vector) but the code keeps running.<br>An example:<br><br>- Energy difference = 4e-7<br>- Forces acting on atoms (Ry/au):<br>
<br> atom 1 type 1 force = 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00085679<br> atom 2 type 2 force = 0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.00001779<br> atom 3 type 3 force = 0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.00024617<br>
atom 4 type 3 force = 0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.00034665<br> atom 5 type 3 force = 0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.00024617<br><br> Total force = 0.000988 Total SCF correction = 0.000002<br>
<br> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -0.84<br> -0.00001150 0.00000000 0.00000000 -1.69 0.00 0.00<br> 0.00000000 -0.00001150 0.00000000 0.00 -1.69 0.00<br>
0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000591 0.00 0.00 0.87<br><br>Any idea of what's going on?<br><br>Thank you very much<br><br>Pablo<br>_______________________________________________<br>Pw_forum mailing list<br>
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