[QE-users] Relaxation issue
Manu Hegde
mhegde at sfu.ca
Thu Aug 6 20:41:15 CEST 2020
Why do you expect convergence in two scf cycles?. Read your forces (in Ry
not ev), it is still high i think. Also, you should allow QE to attain
convergence. That indeed depends on your input parameters, crystal
structure etc..
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 2:20 PM Poonam Kaushik <poonamkaushik40 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear QE users,
> I have been trying to perform a vc-relax calculation with 24 atoms. After
> two scf steps, I am not able to achieve the convergence. My scf calculation
> finished successfully with the forces
> Total force = 0.052988 Total SCF correction = 0.001992
> Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure
> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P=
> 19.11
> 0.00018596 0.00000000 0.00000000 27.36 0.00
> 0.00
> 0.00000000 0.00018596 0.00000000 0.00 27.36
> 0.00
> 0.00000000 -0.00000000 0.00001780 0.00 -0.00
> 2.62
>
> I tried many attempts by changing the mixing beta, mixing mode, and
> degauss value as suggested in the Forum. I also visualized my structure
> after each step. I am attaching my input file, please have a look.
> I myself not able to recognize something wrong that I am doing. I'll very
> thankful for any suggestions.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Poonam Sharma
> Research Scholar
> Department of Physics
> Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
> Mumbai - 400076
> India.
>
>
>
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