<div><DIV style="font-family:Georgia; color:#000000; font-size:13px;">hello,<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>I have never tried meta-GGA functionals with QE, so I am guessing. </DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>For point 1, one possible reason is the inadequacy between the pseudo potential and the functional. I guess you have build a special pseudopotential for this functional.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Point 2: Could it be because the meta-GGA kinetic terms are not saved in the checkpoint file and hence not readable when doing the nscf?<BR><BR><BR>Pascal</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV dir="ltr">"Juanjo Meléndez" <melendez@unex.es> wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite="<BA0A7E01AFE046D08178A05800725F9D@Otello>">
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<DIV>Hi all</DIV>
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<DIV align="justify">I am starting to work with metaGGA functionals in QE (v. 5.1
+ libXc), following Èric Germaneau and colleagues’ work (<A title="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.02.020" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.02.020">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2013.02.020</A>).
I know that metaGGA is little tested, but I would be pleased if somebody could
answer a couple of questions:</DIV>
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<DIV align="justify">1) Convergence is quite tricky. Up to know, I got some
results in simple systems using a very small mixing_beta (within 0.01–0.05), not
too many bands (just one or two conduction bands, never converged for more
bands) and restarting from a previously fully converged calculation. I got
results only for carbon, silicon and germanium, never got any convergence for
any binary simple compound (like LiF). Does anyone have additional hints for
metaGGA calculations to converge?</DIV>
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<DIV align="justify">2) In addition, I get something wrong with nscf calculations.
After convergence of a scf run, I get a list of bands at each k-point, as usual
–nothing strange here. Then I made a path of k-points to get the band structure
and run a nscf calculation. This finishes fine as well, but the bands are not
only different from those from the scf calculations, but also unrealistically
high. I am attaching the input and output files for both the scf and nscf runs,
as well as a couple of eigenval.xml files taken after nscf. Does anybody know
how to manage this? Or could this be a bug in the code?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks a lot in advance</DIV>
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<DIV>Take care</DIV>
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<DIV>Juanjo</DIV>
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