<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>I'm not very expert about phonon calculations. There is no indication of the atomic species in your files. However, you should try to visualize your structure, to understand if it looks exactly as you expect. I tried it, and obtained what you see in the attached figure.</div><div><br></div><div>Moreover, you should also check your ground state calculation, to understand whether or not it has converged. Indeed, if you look at lines like these ones</div><div>pert. # 1: Fermi energy shift (Ry) = 3.7082E+22 -1.2500E-01<br><br> iter # 100 total cpu time : 78743.4 secs <a href="http://av.it">av.it</a>.: 167.3<br> thresh= 1.000E-02 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 3.427E+47<br></div><div><br></div><div>I would say that figures like 3.7082E+22 or 3.427E+47 do not look so reasonable.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the scf calculation, where reducing mixing_beta might help in some cases to overcome problems related with the convergence of the scf cycle, you might try to reduce alpha_mix = 0.700. However, given the unreasonables values printed in your output (see above), I would not be so confident that this would solve your problem.</div><div><br></div><div>So, try to check all the steps of your calculation, starting from the geometry optimization.</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:ii_le2w6tx20" alt="image.png" width="344" height="515"><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- </span><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>Giovanni Cantele, PhD<br>CNR-SPIN<br>c/o Dipartimento di Fisica<br>Universita' di Napoli "Federico II"<br>Complesso Universitario M. S. Angelo - Ed. 6<br>Via Cintia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy<br><a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">e-mail: giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a><br>Phone: +39 081 676910<br>Skype contact: giocan74<br><br>ResearcherID: <a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1951-2009" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1951-2009</a><br>Web page: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/giovanni-cantele/home" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/giovanni-cantele/home</a><br></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 13 feb 2023 alle ore 14:52 sunilch.cstaff via users <<a href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org">users@lists.quantum-espresso.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear QE community,<br>
<br>
I am trying to converge a full phonon dispersion calculation for a <br>
monolayer material. However, the calculation is not converging for <br>
convergence thresholds less than 10^-12. I have tried changing the <br>
alpha_mix from 0.9 to 0.1 but still, the problem remains. I also tried <br>
increasing the vacuum size in the z-direction from 10 A to 20 A but <br>
still, the problem persists. There is a pattern that the convergence <br>
decreases until 10^-12 and then starts to shoot up to large values (for <br>
eg. upto 10^10). I am using full relativistic ultrasoft pseudopotential <br>
with PBESOL functional.<br>
<br>
I need help with why this is happening and how it can be resolved.<br>
<br>
I am attaching the scf and phonon calculation files.<br>
<br>
The convergence starts to shoot up after iteration 18.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Regards,<br>
Sunil Choudhary<br>
Junior Research Fellow<br>
DMSE, IIT Delhi<br>
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