<div dir="ltr"><div>Funny: nmix_ph must be < 5. Likely a relic from the past, when there was such a limitation in the mixing algorithm. I think you can safely change it or comment it out (line 355 of PHonon/PH/phq_readin.f90)<br><br></div>Paolo<br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Vic Bermudez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.h.bermudez@cox.net" target="_blank">c.h.bermudez@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello All,<br>
<br>
I'm running ph.x in QE vers. 5.0 and having a bit of a convergence problem.<br>
Reducing the value of alpha_mix(1) from the default value of 0.7 helps, but<br>
if I try to change "nmix_ph" the program crashes immediately with an error<br>
message saying "wrong nmix used". Is this a bug in vers. 5.0, or am I doing<br>
something wrong ? Here's my input file, with the nmix_ph entry commented<br>
out. In case it's significant, the input structure for this calculation was<br>
relaxed using PBE/PAW, and the force and scf convergence criteria were set<br>
at 1.d-5 and 1.d-10 respectively.<br>
<br>
title_line='Phonon calc. '<br>
&INPUTPH<br>
outdir='/lustre/cmf/scratch/b/bermudez/XX-input',<br>
iverbosity=0,<br>
epsil=.TRUE.,<br>
trans=.TRUE.,<br>
tr2_ph=1e-14,<br>
alpha_mix(1)=0.3,<br>
! nmix_ph=6,<br>
max_seconds=8.63900d5,<br>
recover=.false.<br>
/<br>
0.0 0.0 0.0<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for your help.<br>
<br>
<br>
Victor M. Bermudez<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:bermudez@alum.mit.edu">bermudez@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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