<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your answer. When I put the atomic position in angstrom, I got a crash report that is attached here.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM Giovanni Cantele <<a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</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 Vishva,<div><br></div><div>before running any calculation it is a good practice to visualize your input structure, because many times convergence issues derive</div><div>from errors in the input geometry.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do so with yours, you see atoms at extremely small distances from each other, which prevents pw.x from reasonably converging</div><div>in an acceptable number of steps.</div><div><br></div><div>The second step is to understand why the structure is wrong. In your case my guess is that you tell pw.x that you're providing positions in alat units,</div><div>whereas those units are Angstrom.</div><div><br></div><div>The number of atoms depends on what you want to do. If you what to use a simple cubic unit cell (as in your input file) and the bcc unit cell is composed by N atoms,</div><div>then the 1x1x1 CONVENTIONAL unit cell will contain 2N atoms. If, on top of that, you want also build a 2x2x2 unit cell, than that number has to be multiplied by 2x2x2.</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanmi<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- <br><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 mag 2024 alle ore 12:08 VISHVA JEET ANAND via users <<a href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org" target="_blank">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"><div dir="ltr">Dear Users<div>I try to run Fe (bcc) structure 2x2x2 supercell for relaxation calculation but scf does not converge in 1000 iterations. Secondally how many no. of atoms in Fe (bcc) structure. Here I attached my input file.<br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">With Regards<div>Vishva Jeet Anand</div><div>Research Scholar</div><div>Department of Chemistry <br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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