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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would give a shot to local-TF,
      mixing-beta not too small (~ 0.3).<br>
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      is it a metal ? does increasing degauss help ?<br>
      is this an instability related to the occupation of the
      U-projectors ? <br>
      does it converge if you if you remove U ?<br>
      does the fcc cell with 10 atoms converge ?<br>
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      stefano<br>
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      On 09/10/2015 09:03, 庞瑞(PANG Rui) wrote:<br>
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      <div>The most efficient way is reducing the mixing_beta, you may
        try 0.1 -0.01 or even smaller if you can afford the CPU time. Is
        50 enough for O? You may check it, the smallest value usually is
        given in the PP file. A personal experience is that do not use
        semi-core PP. I do not understand the reason but I seldom get
        convergence when using semi-core PPs in periodical cases with
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              <div id="menu_sender"><b>From: </b> "Shuai"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zhao-shuai@edu.life.kyutech.ac.jp"><zhao-shuai@edu.life.kyutech.ac.jp></a>;</div>
              <div><b>Date: </b> Fri, Oct 9, 2015 12:00 PM</div>
              <div><b>To: </b> "PWSCF Forum"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org"><pw_forum@pwscf.org></a>;
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              <div><b>Subject: </b> [Pw_forum] Convergence NOT achieved
                for Sr2MnMoO6 using PAW pp</div>
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            Dear User:<br>
            <br>
            I am doing the SCF calculation of Sr2MnMoO6 using PAW
            Potentials but it <br>
            cannot converged.<br>
            <br>
            I checked different Ecut (30Ry, 40Ry or 50Ry), mixing mode
            (TF or <br>
            plain), diagonalization (david or cg) and mixing_beta (0.3,
            0.7), but it <br>
            always not converged.<br>
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            The SCF input is:<br>
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              &control<br>
               calculation   = 'scf'<br>
               prefix           = 'Sr2MnMoO6'<br>
               restart_mode  = 'from_scratch'<br>
               pseudo_dir    = '/'<br>
               outdir           = '/'<br>
              /<br>
              &system<br>
               ibrav            = 1<br>
               celldm(1)     = 15.27295<br>
               nat               = 40<br>
               ntyp             = 4<br>
               ecutwfc        = 50<br>
               ecutrho        = 600<br>
               occupations   = 'smearing'<br>
               smearing      = 'mp'<br>
               degauss        = 0.01<br>
               lda_plus_u     = .true.<br>
               Hubbard_U(2)  = 4.0<br>
              /<br>
              &electrons<br>
               conv_thr         = 1e-8<br>
               mixing_mode   = 'TF'<br>
               mixing_beta   = 0.7<br>
               diagonalization = 'david'<br>
              /<br>
            ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
               Sr    87.620   Sr.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
               Mn   54.938   Mn.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
               Mo   95.960   Mo.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
               O     15.999   O.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
            ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal)<br>
               Sr    0.0000   0.0000   0.0000<br>
               Sr    0.5000   0.0000   0.0000<br>
               Sr    0.0000   0.5000   0.0000<br>
               Sr    0.5000   0.5000   0.0000<br>
               Sr    0.0000   0.0000   0.5000<br>
               Sr    0.5000   0.0000   0.5000<br>
               Sr    0.0000   0.5000   0.5000<br>
               Sr    0.5000   0.5000   0.5000<br>
               Mn   0.2500   0.2500   0.2500<br>
               Mo   0.7500   0.2500   0.2500<br>
               Mo   0.2500   0.7500   0.2500<br>
               Mn   0.7500   0.7500   0.2500<br>
               Mo   0.2500   0.2500   0.7500<br>
               Mn   0.7500   0.2500   0.7500<br>
               Mn   0.2500   0.7500   0.7500<br>
               Mo   0.7500   0.7500   0.7500<br>
               O     0.2500  -0.0140   0.2500<br>
               O    -0.0140   0.2500   0.2500<br>
               O     0.2500   0.2500  -0.0140<br>
               O     0.7500   0.0140   0.2500<br>
               O     0.5140   0.2500   0.2500<br>
               O     0.7500   0.2500   0.0140<br>
               O     0.2500   0.5140   0.2500<br>
               O     0.0140   0.7500   0.2500<br>
               O     0.2500   0.7500   0.0140<br>
               O     0.7500   0.4860   0.2500<br>
               O     0.4860   0.7500   0.2500<br>
               O     0.7500   0.7500  -0.0140<br>
               O     0.2500   0.0140   0.7500<br>
               O     0.0140   0.2500   0.7500<br>
               O     0.2500   0.2500   0.5140<br>
               O     0.7500  -0.0140   0.7500<br>
               O     0.4860   0.2500   0.7500<br>
               O     0.7500   0.2500   0.4860<br>
               O     0.2500   0.4860   0.7500<br>
               O    -0.0140   0.7500   0.7500<br>
               O     0.2500   0.7500   0.4860<br>
               O     0.7500   0.5140   0.7500<br>
               O     0.5140   0.7500   0.7500<br>
               O     0.7500   0.7500   0.5140<br>
            K_POINTS (automatic)<br>
               4 4 4 1 1 1<br>
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            Thanks in advance for your suggestions.<br>
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            Best regards,<br>
            <br>
            Shuai Zhao<br>
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            -- <br>
            PhD candidate<br>
            Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering<br>
            Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan<br>
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