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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Dear all,<br> I am doing total energy calculation for a system having two<br>atoms per unit cell. When doing it I am getting converged total energies<br>
upto lattice constant a=7 bohr. When doing calculation for higher values of<br>a=8 bohr, I am getting following message.<br><br>convergence not achieved.<br>end of calculation.<br><br>and as a result, i am not getting value of total energy.<br>
so, help me<br><br>thanks in advance</blockquote>
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<div>Dear Shyam,</div>
<div>there are several reasons as to why your system is not converging so try the following :increase the number of iterations(default value is 100) and use a small value of mixing beta(default is 0.7)</div>
<div>hope that helps!</div>
<div>George Manyali</div>
<div>Physics Department</div>
<div>Moi University</div>Chepkoilel Campus<br>
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