[Pw_forum] ecut vs energy
Gabriele Sclauzero
sclauzer at sissa.it
Wed Jun 15 10:03:05 CEST 2011
Dear Amin,
I think that your convergence looks "slow" to you because your PP for H is norm-conserving: you'll need about 85 Ry to get a 1mRy accuracy, but that's not much surprise with a hard NCPP. I believe that by replacing the H PP with a corresponding USPP you could get convergence at a much lower energy. If instead you want to keep the NC PP for H, I think there's no need to use ecutrho=10*ecutwfc, since this is required only for the PP of B, which should converge at much lower ecutwfc (you could check this). Let's suppose that you need 35 Ry for B (hence you need to take an ecutrho of about 350 Ry), while 85 Ry are needed for H (therefore ecutrho=4*85=340 ~ 350): I believe that you can keep the ecutrho as low as 350 Ry (or 4*ecutwfc for higher ecutwfc) without any problem.
HTH
GS
Il giorno 14/giu/2011, alle ore 20.08, Amin Torabi ha scritto:
> Dear experts!
>
> Could you please have a look at my input file, attached to this email.
>
> My main problem is that I expect the total energy to converge at lower ecutwfc energy. ( or I am expecting too much?)
>
> ecut energy
> 25 -38.36026321
> 30 -38.44145201
> 35 -38.49537648
> 40 -38.53312799
> 45 -38.55904483
> 50 -38.57650475
> 55 -38.58840904
> 60 -38.59670631
> 65 -38.60253103
> 70 -38.60653038
> 75 -38.60918176
> 80 -38.61090436
> 85 -38.61200805
> 90 -38.61269007
> 95 -38.61308582
> 100 -38.61329742
>
>
>
> Notes:
>
> 1. Do I have to be at the minimum structure to check for convergence of ecut vs energy, or I can check the convergency from a non-optimized structure?
>
> 2. I used USPP for one of my atoms and NCPP for the other atom, and set ecutrho = 10*ecutwfc...
>
>
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
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