<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear All,<br><br>Good day all, I am a new user in quantum espresso, I am working on anatase TiO2 (with hexagonal structure) but I have problem with convergence test for lattice parameter for TiO2 system. I have tried to vary celldm 1 from 8.2 to 9.0Bohr but I was unable get a convergence result. Also, I tried to vary celldm 3 from 0.2441 to 1.3441Bohr and keeping celldm 1 constant, I was unable to get convergence as well. I have my input file below. <br><br>&control<br> calculation = 'scf',<br> restart_mode='from_scratch',<br> prefix='TiO2'<br> pseudo_dir='/home/funmilayo/espresso-4.2.1/pseudo',<br> outdir='./',<br> tprnfor = .true.<br> tstress = .true.<br>/<br>&system<br> ibrav=6, celldm(1)= 8.6808, celldm(3)= 0.7450,<br> nat=3,
ntyp=2,occupations='smearing', smearing='marzari-vanderbilt', degauss=0.02 <br> ecutwfc= 25.0,<br>/<br>&electrons<br> mixing_beta = 0.7<br> diagonalization='davidson'<br>conv_thr = 1.0d-8<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>Ti 47.867 Ti.blyp-sp-van_ak.UPF<br>O 15.994 O.blyp-van_ak.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS<br>Ti 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 <br>O 0.33333333 0.33333333 0.33333333<br>O 0.80000000 0.20000000 0.50000000<br>K_POINTS (automatic)<br>6 6 6 0 0 0<br><br>Can anyone please tell me where I have gone wrong. <br>Thank you all.<br><br><br>Ayedun Oluwafunmilayo,<br>PhD student,<br>Department of Physics,<br>University of Agriculture,<br>Abeokuta,<br>Nigeria.<br></td></tr></table>