<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:36 PM MARIA CATERINA CEVALLOS BRENES <<a href="mailto:MARIA.CEVALLOS@ucr.ac.cr">MARIA.CEVALLOS@ucr.ac.cr</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">However, I'm still not getting the dimerization expected.
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>it's a known problem of DFT in simple GGA form: (almost) no dimerization in polyacetylene. The funny thing is that if you do the calculation with an unconverged k-point grid, you get a decent dimerization, that disappears if you push the convergence of k-points</div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br clear="all"></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,<br>Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br>Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>