Dear Lorenzo thanks for the answer. My problem is simple it is to find out the cohesive energy of Cr,V,Ti. I posted this question earlier also. I was told to try out with occupations=from_input instead of degauss value to get the accurate value of the ground state energy because i am getting an error of around 10% in Ec (i was wondering if that can be acceptable) meanwhile i came across the post which says to use ocuupations=fixed.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Lorenzo Paulatto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulatto@sissa.it">paulatto@sissa.it</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;">
In data 07 ottobre 2009 alle ore 09:24:28, udayagiri sai babu<br>
<<a href="mailto:udayagiri3@gmail.com">udayagiri3@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> In the archive I have seen a discussion suggesting use of<br>
> occupations=fixed to find out the ground state energy of isolated oxygen<br>
> atom accurately. Can I use the same (occupations=fixed) for metal also.<br>
> Because in the pw<br>
> document it is told to use only for insulators.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Dear U,<br>
for isolated atoms you can always use fixed occupations: as you use only<br>
use the Gamma point, bands are actually flat. Nevertheless it may be<br>
difficult to reach the ground state in some cases, I suggest using a small<br>
smearing which should give exactly the same result but makes convergence<br>
faster.<br>
<br>
I see you have already asked how to compute the ground state for a Ti atom<br>
(e.g.<br>
<<a href="http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2009-September/014246.html" target="_blank">http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/2009-September/014246.html</a>>),<br>
which actually is a metal... why don't you tell us your problem, instead<br>
of your guess for a solution?<br>
<br>
best regards<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>U.Saibabu<br>PhD student,<br>Deformation mechanisms modeling group,<br>Materials engineering department,<br>IISc Bangalore,<br>India.<br><br>