[Pw_forum] convergence issue

[Ranasinghe, Jayangani]

part of INPUT in the scf .in is below


&SYSTEM
   nat=162,
  ntyp = 2,
    degauss = 0.02,
    nspin = 2,
    ecutwfc = 100,
    ibrav = 0,
    nbnd=1000,
    occupations = 'smearing',
    smearing = 'mp',
    starting_magnetization(1)=0.5,
    starting_magnetization(2)=0.0,
 /
&ELECTRONS
    conv_thr = 1e-10,
    mixing_beta = 0.3,
    electron_maxstep = 900,
    mixing_mode='local-TF',
    mixing_ndim=10,




Thank you


Jayangani


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Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 4:26 PM
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Subject: [Pw_forum] convergence issue


Dear QE developers and experts


I am trying to do third order force constant calculation in a 3x3x3 supercell.  I have 190 input  files and I am continuing the scf runs for each. I have set the convergence criteria 1.0E-10. However SCF run doesn't stop after this is achieved. As copied below ethr went to 10^-11 at 108 th step and decreased 10^-14 by 900th step. But didn't stop. My problem is why this is happening and how to control the convergence criteria to meet the given threshold.?



I played with mixing_mode, mixing_ndim etc... but it didn't help




Thank you


Jayangani

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