<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp90d4a54dyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><div><span>Dear Friends,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>With increasing cutoff of ecut and rho, scf converges very good to 0.00056RY, but after it, I get error of cdiaghg<br></span></div><div><span>     estimated scf accuracy    <      88.51397074 Ry</span></div><span>     estimated scf accuracy    <      83.12113178 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <      71.36984815 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <      18.56626142 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <      16.50426903 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <      10.98856402 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       9.29719956 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       9.04328354 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       7.59328356 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       4.30614522 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       2.21579595 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       2.06363848 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       2.06296140 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       1.34208729 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       1.19303974 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.77385185 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.35651056 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.35249019 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.33018969 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.29144253 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.29003126 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.15010288 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.16890222 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.17333274 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.20983308 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.16568269 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.15870553 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.15107152 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.16370376 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.09504571 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.07604307 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.06449930 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.02894336 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.02200061 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00853408 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00663002 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00282189 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00240517 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00251009 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00159343 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00129758 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00127796 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00070475 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00056218 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00055564 Ry<br>     estimated scf accuracy    <       0.00056799 Ry<br>===================================================<br>iteration # 47     ecut=   150.00 Ry     beta= 0.03<br>     Davidson diagonalization with overlap<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>     Error in routine  cdiaghg (1192):<br>      problems computing cholesky<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>     stopping ...<br><br><br></span><span></span><div><br></div><div>Here is my input:<br></div><span>===============================================================<br>&CONTROL<br>                       title = 'Er2O3'<br>                 calculation = 'scf'<br>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch'<br>                      outdir = './Er2O3',<br>                  pseudo_dir = './'<br>                      prefix = 'Er2O3'<br>                     disk_io = 'default'<br>                   verbosity = 'default'<br>                   etot_conv_thr=5.0D-5<br>                   forc_conv_thr=1.0D-3<br>                   nstep=1000<br>                   wf_collect=.true.<br>/<br> &SYSTEM<br>                       ibrav = 0<br>                       nat = 40<br>                       ntyp = 2<br>                       ecutwfc = 150<br>                       ecutrho = 600<br>!                       starting_magnetization(1)=0.0<br>                       starting_magnetization(2)=0.2<br>!                       starting_magnetization(3)=-0.2<br>!                      tot_magnetization=0.0<br>                       nspin=2<br>                       occupations='smearing'<br>                       degauss=0.003<br>                       smearing='gaussian'<br>!                       occupations='fixed'<br>                       nbnd=350<br>                      lda_plus_u=.true.<br>                       hubbard_u(2)=5.0<br>!                       hubbard_u(3)=1D-40<br>!                       hubbard_alpha(2)=-0.08<br>!                       hubbard_alpha(3)=-0.08<br>                       <br>/<br> &ELECTRONS<br>            electron_maxstep = 10000<br>                    conv_thr = 1.0D-5<br>                 mixing_mode = 'local-TF'<br>                 mixing_beta = 0.03<br>                 mixing_ndim = 25<br>             diagonalization = 'davidson'<br>!             diago_thr_init=1.0D-11<br>!             diago_david_ndim=10<br>!              startingwfc='file'<br>!              startingpot='file'<br>/<br> &IONS<br>            ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'<br>/<br> &CELL<br>            cell_dynamics = 'bfgs'<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>   O   15.999   O.revpbe-nl-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>   Er   167.259 Er.revpbe-spdfn-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>O        0.010082090   0.471347571   0.739965385<br>O        0.231384068   0.270115004   0.760035636<br>O        0.268617329   0.028651819   0.038732695<br>O        0.229887093   0.461268860   0.489921172<br>O        0.461265747   0.489918759   0.229885162<br>O        0.739964097   0.010081013   0.471348511<br>O        0.270115257   0.760034878   0.231382923<br>O        0.038732435   0.268618497   0.028654858<br>O        0.471350430   0.739967950   0.010082195<br>O        0.760033246   0.231382865   0.270114909<br>O        0.028652110   0.038733351   0.268619479<br>O        0.489919813   0.229882339   0.461267702<br>O        0.989917910   0.528652429   0.260034615<br>O        0.768615932   0.729884996   0.239964364<br>O        0.731382671   0.971348181   0.961267305<br>O        0.770112907   0.538731140   0.510078828<br>O        0.510080187   0.770117661   0.538732298<br>O        0.971347890   0.961266649   0.731380521<br>O        0.239966754   0.768617135   0.729885091<br>O        0.528649570   0.260032050   0.989917805<br>O        0.961267565   0.731381503   0.971345142<br>O        0.729884743   0.239965122   0.768617077<br>O        0.260035903   0.989918987   0.528651489<br>O        0.538734253   0.510081241   0.770114838<br>Er       0.249999819   0.025660858   0.775664192<br>Er       0.724340363   0.750001510   0.474337741<br>Er       0.474340661   0.724343127   0.750003924<br>Er       0.775659297   0.249997699   0.025661937<br>Er       0.025657310   0.775660989   0.249994851<br>Er       0.750002901   0.474339735   0.724338874<br>Er       0.750000181   0.974339142   0.224335808<br>Er       0.275659637   0.249998490   0.525662259<br>Er       0.525659339   0.275656873   0.249996076<br>Er       0.224340703   0.750002301   0.974338063<br>Er       0.974342690   0.224339011   0.750005149<br>Er       0.249997099   0.525660265   0.275661126<br>Er       0.500000000   0.500000000   0.000000000<br>Er       0.500000000  -0.000000000   0.500000000<br>Er      -0.000000000   0.500000000   0.500000000<br>Er       0.000000000   0.000000000   0.000000000   <br>CELL_PARAMETERS angstrom<br>7.429173569  -4.289249673  -3.032904624<br>  -0.000034471   8.578457674  -3.032930129<br>   0.000046924   0.000009055   9.098816015<br>K_POINTS automatic<br>2 2 2 0 0 0<br></span><div><span>==========================================</span></div><div><span></span><br></div><div>Any help?<br></div><span><br></span><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp90d4a54dsignature">Regards<br> <br> David</div></div>
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