<div dir="ltr"><div>Well, this is not an expert opinion, but I faced similar problem when I tried to simulate the band structure of graphene on BN under external electric field, and my experience is: startingwfc = 'random' solved the problem. <br><br></div>Hope it would work for you too.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:41 PM, siham Sadki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdk.siham@hotmail.com" target="_blank">sdk.siham@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>I am wanting to get the Dos of silicene under the effect of an<br>external electric field. I have done the scf calculations without<br>electric field , then again did the scf calculation with an electric<br>field included in the z-direction (with value 0.008ua). But the<br>convergence is not achieved and it stopped after 100 iterations and<br>giving it this message:<br><br>"convergence NOT achieved after 100 iterations: stopping"<br><br>You will find below in file for the scf calculation when an<br>electric field is applied:<br> &control<br> calculation = 'scf'<br> restart_mode='from_scratch',<br> prefix='Si11ca00E0.008',<br> lelfield=.true.,<br> nberrycyc=3<br> gdir=3<br> pseudo_dir ='/home/siham/Desktop/espresso-5.0.1-GPU/pseudo',<br> outdir='/home/siham/Desktop/espresso-5.0.1-GPU/tmp'<br> /<br> &system<br> ibrav= 4,<br> celldm(1)=7.3103,<br> celldm(3)= 5,<br> nat= 2, ntyp= 1,<br> ecutwfc = 50.0,<br> ecutrho =370.0<br> nbnd = 12,<br> /<br> &electrons<br> conv_thr = 1.0d-8<br> mixing_beta = 0.2<br> efield_cart(1)=0.d0, efield_cart(2)=0.d0, efield_cart(3)=0.008d0<br> /<br> &ions<br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> Si 28.086 Si.pbe-rrkj.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS (Angstrom)<br> Si 0.000000000 0.000000000 2.001457804<br> Si -0.000000019 2.233446401 2.447251213<br>K_POINTS {automatic}<br>10 10 1 1 1 1<br>Thanks in advance<br><br></div>
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