<div dir="ltr">Dear Anish,<div>I increased the Kinetic Energy cutoff to 200 Ry (with the rest of the parameters the same). This time convergence was achieved.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the support,</div><div>Anita</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 12:08 PM anita gemmy <<a href="mailto:anitagemmy1000@gmail.com">anitagemmy1000@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear QE users, <div>I was doing a vc-relax calculation for monolayer VI3 supercell. Given below is my input script. The output file says convergence NOT achieved after 100 iterations. The mixing_mode = 'loacal-TF', since the system is monolayer and mixing_beta = 0.2. Still the output file says not converged. What could be the problem ?</div><div><br></div><div>&CONTROL<br> calculation = 'vc-relax'<br> restart_mode ='from_scratch'<br> prefix = 'vi3'<br> disk_io = 'none'<br> outdir = './outdir'<br> pseudo_dir = '/pfs/home/pati/Anita/VX3/PP/'<br> !nstep = 2000<br>/<br><br>&SYSTEM<br> ibrav=0<br> nat =16<br> ntyp =2<br> ecutwfc = 60<br> !ecutrho = 200<br> !nbnd=30<br> occupations='smearing'<br> smearing= 'gaussian'<br> degauss = 0.05<br>/<br><br>&ELECTRONS<br> electron_maxstep= 200<br> conv_thr = 1e-8<br> mixing_beta = 0.2<br> mixing_mode= 'local-TF'<br>/<br><br>&IONS<br>/<br><br>&CELL<br> !press = 0.0<br>/<br><br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> V 50.9415 V.pbe-spnl-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br> I 126.90447 I.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br><br>CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}<br> 12.1847667694 0.0000000000 0.0000000000<br> -3.0461916924 5.2761587807 0.0000000000<br> 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 19.6466827393<br><br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom)<br>V 0.000000 3.517439 6.548881<br>V 6.092383 3.517439 6.548881<br>V 0.000000 0.000000 6.548907<br>V 6.092383 0.000000 6.548907<br>I -1.953830 3.650973 5.189292<br>I 4.138553 3.650973 5.189292<br>I 0.861271 1.758605 5.189292<br>I 6.953654 1.758605 5.189292<br></div><div>I 1.953632 3.650859 7.908497<br>I 8.046015 3.650859 7.908497<br>I -0.861271 1.758834 7.908497<br>I 5.231112 1.758834 7.908497<br>I 1.953831 -0.133535 7.908497<br>I 10.231134 -0.133420 5.189292<br>I 4.138751 -0.133420 5.189292<br>I 8.046214 -0.133535 7.908497<br><br>K_POINTS (automatic)<br>8 4 1 0 0 0<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanking you</div><div>Sincereley</div><div>Anita Gemmy</div><div>TSU, JNCASR</div></div>
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