[Pw_forum] Time of phonon calculation

[Gabriele Sclauzero]

Il giorno 15/mag/09, alle ore 16:29, 程迎春 ha scritto:

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> In the scf calculation, the default convergence threshold for scf  
> conv_thr is 1.D-6, but in the phonon calculation, the threshold
>  tr2_ph=1.0d-12,
> is much tighter !!!

Actually the converge thresholds for pw.x (conv_thr) and ph.x (tr2_ph)  
are not referred to the same quantity. The first is about the  
estimated error on the total energy, while the second is a sort of  
norm of the difference between the scf potential at two consecutive  
steps of the scf cycle (though I'm not completely sure).

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> I think you can increase the scf threshold and decrease the phonon  
> threshold.  You can change the both threshold to 1.D-8.


In order to get good phonons it is usually better to have a well  
converged scf potential, so that it is good advice to decrease  
conv_thr down to 1.d-8.
However, to my knowledge, it is better not to increase tr2_ph with  
respect to the default (1.d-12).

GS

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