<div dir="ltr"><div>QE with meta-GGA functionals is very unstable, due to numerical problems of uncler origin (or maybe the origin is clear, it is the solution that is not)<br><br></div>Paolo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Khalid Ibne Masood Khalid <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kimu206@gmail.com" target="_blank">kimu206@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Researchers,<br></div>I was trying to calculate the band gap of a 2D material using 'TB09' metaGGA. I have successfully installed libxc and linked it with quantum espresso, but upon running the pw.x file, it shows:<br><br> Error in routine cdiaghg (189):<br> S matrix not positive definite<br><br></div>I have seen that it was already reported in the link: <a href="http://qe-forge.org/pipermail/pw_forum/2012-September/099746.html" target="_blank">http://qe-forge.org/pipermail/pw_forum/2012-September/099746.html</a>, and it was suggested to use less number of processors, so I have used only 1 processor, but still the problem persists.<br><br></div>I am using C.pz-vbc.UPF pseudo-potential and the quantum espresso version is 5.2.0 installed with intel mkl library.<br><br></div>Thank you.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Khalid Ibne Masood<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">M.Sc student<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">BUET<br></font></span></div>
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