<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi QE Experts,</div><div><br></div><div>I have a system whose ground state is a doublet ( 1 spin up electron, in this case ). I am using ultrasoft PPs. The system is a 3x3x3 super cell of diamond with a single NV center. <br></div><div><br></div><div>My strategy for converging Ecutwfc and Ecutrho follows the prescription laid out by Stephano in previous exchanges on the forum. It involves two steps:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Using the default Ecutrho = 4*Ecutwfc, I converge the total force of my cell w.r.t Ecutwfc. <br></div><div><br></div><div>2) Then, using the converged value of Ecutho, I scale back Ecutwfc to see how low I can get it without coming out of my tolerance window, which is 1mRy in the total force computed using the converged parameters. <br></div><div><br></div><div>When I make my unit cell charged (therefore a triplet ground state [2 spin up electrons] ) - I get a great convergence.</div><div><br></div><div>However, when doing step1 using my charge neutral (doublet) ground state, I obtain the following for step 1 in the convergence procedure:</div><div><br></div><div>
20.0000 0.238517<br>30.0000 0.273459<br>40.0000 0.272399<br>50.0000 0.270205<br>60.0000 0.269809<br>70.0000 0.269807<br>80.0000 0.274589<br>90.0000 0.274698<br>100.0000 0.270163<br>110.0000 0.270168<br>120.0000 0.270176<br>130.0000 0.270245<br>140.0000 0.274755<br>150.0000 0.270246</div><div><br></div><div>The left column is Ecut (Ry), the right column is Total Force (Ry/Bohr). One can notice "spikes", for example, at Ecut = 140, and E cut = 80-90 Ry. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Can such a thing happen for a particular difficult occupation scheme? I suspect that I am oscillating between two solutions, and that using Ecut 50 (therefore Ecutrho = 200 Ry) works here. Then, using Ecutrho = 200, I can most likely get the Ecutwfc back to ~ 35 or so.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your time,</div><div>Best,</div><div>Brendan A. Smith</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>4th year graduate student studying computational chemistry at the State University of New York at Buffalo<br>
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