[QE-users] QE 6.1 with HSE slow convergence

Vitaly Gorelov 19gorelov93 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 18:59:50 CEST 2019


Dear Users,

I'm doing HSE calculations on a thermal semimetallic H2 crystall (96
atoms). As I understood for a system with a small gap one should use
full mesh of q-vectors. However the convergence is very very slow if I
do so. Potentially, I would also like to use a larger twist grid.
I'm using QE 6.1 with ACE algorithm on a knl processor.

Here is the input file, maybe I still overlooked some convergence
parameters that could be optimized, or there is a parallelization trick
for knl processors that I can use?

Thank you in advance

input:

&CONTROL
   calculation = 'scf' ,
   restart_mode='from_scratch' ,
   prefix = 'H' ,
   pseudo_dir = './' ,
   outdir = './pwscf' ,
   tstress = .true. ,
   tprnfor = .true. ,
   verbosity = 'medium' ,
   disk_io = 'high' ,
   wf_collect=.true.
/
&SYSTEM
   ibrav = 0. ,
   celldm(1) = 1.0 ,
   nosym = .true. ,
   nat = 96,
   ntyp = 1 ,
   nspin = 1 ,
   nbnd = 68 ,
   ecutwfc = 40 ,
   ecutfock = 60 ,
   occupations = 'smearing' ,
   smearing = 'f-d' ,
   degauss = 0.0063336 ,
   input_dft = 'hse' ,
   exx_fraction = 0.25 ,
   nqx1 = 4, nqx2 = 4, nqx3 = 4,
/
&ELECTRONS
   diagonalization = 'david' ,
   electron_maxstep = 2000 ,
   adaptive_thr = .TRUE. ,
   conv_thr = 1e-7 ,
   mixing_beta = 0.7 ,
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
   H  1.00 H_coul.UPF
K_POINTS {automatic}
4 4 4 1 1 1
CELL_PARAMETERS
      10.8377774848415         0.000000000         0.000000000
      0.000000000         9.61340921910764         0.000000000
      0.000000000         0.000000000         9.3653429545537
ATOMIC_POSITIONS {crystal}
H       0.1169058879        0.1136953577        0.3168063374
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H       0.3358622195       -0.3744769330       -0.3569543599
H       0.3121488704        0.1021801920       -0.1577091204
H       0.4237031076        0.3545048299       -0.1819474213
H       0.1894299826       -0.1324192044        0.1601649835
H       0.5513122970E-01   -0.4349133491        0.1268506669
H       0.2017018714E-01    0.1184803407        0.4497432737
H       0.2625999661        0.4093240920        0.4589260661
H       0.4821099167       -0.1238894520       -0.4499568270
H       0.2937871722       -0.3876876470       -0.4975792155
H       0.3028296166        0.1291945419       -0.5789430271E-02
H       0.4942895356        0.4004822756       -0.3300466427E-01
H       0.2414701726       -0.1302347556        0.5808650069E-01
H       0.3715706477E-01   -0.3476394195        0.1442552618E-01
H       0.2814230136        0.1416771063        0.2351221958
H       0.4870002182        0.3502399537        0.2318121195
H       0.2399015853       -0.1280503068       -0.2167566110
H       0.4107853299E-01   -0.3432705219       -0.2507115875
H       0.1206889514E-01    0.1277382427       -0.3033524788
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H       0.1773426335       -0.5217711933E-01   -0.3255620232
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H       0.1259483323        0.1755880730       -0.1547193741
H       0.1611954114        0.3694839072       -0.2091754685
H       0.4184437267       -0.1650819146        0.1588836637
H       0.3333709338       -0.4286720669        0.1989249095
H       0.2204326490        0.1159838279       -0.4071393881
H       0.3076276483E-01    0.3857112410       -0.4481416239
H       0.2695202041       -0.1287784564        0.3705149952
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H       0.4563666312        0.9022813658E-01    0.9479631491E-01
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H       0.3775681874E-01   -0.1006822843       -0.1043741809
H       0.2052081253       -0.3708361850       -0.5784091438E-01
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H       0.1850933001       -0.1777725218        0.4445112176
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H       0.1614722209        0.3412941159        0.7141222732E-01
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H      -0.4217654410        0.9137237165E-01    0.3431801714
H      -0.3413984099        0.3709402064        0.3246010333
H      -0.1145991419       -0.1229532597       -0.3383752219
H      -0.1571355384       -0.4013144465       -0.3168063374
H      -0.1362825544        0.1675784275       -0.2092822451
H      -0.7621488826E-01    0.4135889682       -0.1673190195
H      -0.3113184419       -0.1601929102        0.1094460721
H      -0.3892864571       -0.4059954082        0.1722307456
H      -0.4879229166        0.9376486317E-01    0.4724867014
H      -0.2927722039        0.3672994584        0.4404537047
H      -0.3943612983E-01   -0.1009735441       -0.4414146946
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H      -0.1192126339        0.1232653238        0.3045270220
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H      -0.3239594100       -0.6133099992E-01   -0.3239603733
H      -0.3993438697       -0.3406699877       -0.3503342073
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H      -0.1675620304       -0.3812383221       -0.6439700104E-01

Vitaly Gorelov,

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E-mail: 19gorelov93 at gmail.com



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