[Pw_forum] Re: from Srijan

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at nest.sns.it
Thu Oct 26 18:38:27 CEST 2006


On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:37 , Srijan K

>    I'm unable to find out what should I change to get a good  
> convergence.

it is explained in the manual. Your material turns out to be metallic or
almost metallic so its convergence is typically less straightforward  
than
for insulators. You have to experiment a bit with k-points, broadening,
with parameter "mixing_beta" (reduce it), even with cutoff (you might
need higher cutoffs, especially for charge density). Check if you get
sensible results for the expected electronic structure: if not, there
might be something wrong with pseudopotentials

P.




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