<br>Dear Forum,<br> I have been trying to calculate the energy of a CO crystal using the <br> coordinates given in cst-www.nrl.navy.mul/lattice/struk.xmol/b21.pos. <br>This has 14 CO molecules. I used the format shown in example03 with the proper<br>
changes for the number of atoms and crystal structure. Unfortunately the cal-<br>culation does not converge. Increasing the number of iterations and ecutwfc and<br>ecutrho improved things a little but the convergence is still about 10^-4 Ry. I am<br>
particularly interested in the interactions between molecules so this is not satis-<br>factory. Is there anything I can do to improve the calculation to reach convergence<br>to about 10^-7 Ry?<br> Incidentally the calculated triple bond energy for a single CO molecule is about <br>
43 Ry while the literature value given in texts is about 54 Ry. Is this to be expected?<br> Hopefully someone has ideas about how to improve the convergence.<br> Amos Leffler<br>
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