[Pw_forum] about total magnetization convergence

[Nicola Marzari]

One possibility is that you are converging to different self-consistent
states - in a spin-polarized calculation this is fairly common - and the
energy differences between different magnetizations could be small.

So, what you are seeing might not be an erratic behavior, but the fact
that there are two or more potential energy surfaces very close to each
other, and corresponding to different magnetizations.

As always, check carefully k-point sampling and the amount of degauss
used (around 0.01-0.02 Ry, for this case). Note that you can fix the tot
amgnetization in the code, if needed.

			nicola


aarti srirangarajan wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am doing a spin polarised slab calculation with vacuum layers for Ni.
> I have a problem here with the total magnetization values. I hv performed
> calculations with 7 7 1 , 9 9 1 and 11 11 1 and 13 13 1 k-point meshes for
> various surfaces  and
> the total magnetisation changes very erratically. The values are not
> converging. Although the Final energies are converging very well.
> Also the difference b/w the Total and abs. magnetisation is of the order
> of 2 bohrs. Could anyone help me with this?
> 
> thank you
> Aarti
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