[Wien] convergence problem
Peter Blaha
pblaha at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Jan 20 08:45:27 CET 2004
> I want to calculate the bandstructure of a primitive cubic alloy, but it's
> not converging (oscillating).
>
> I got some ideas from the UG and the mail-list archive:
>
> 1. smaller broyden factor
> 2. increase RKmax
One would need to see what means: "it is not converging".
grep :dis case.scf
grep :ene case.scf
Smaller broyden facter (don't forget to rm *.broy*
TEMP or GAUSS broadening with larger smearing (0.050), but reduce it later!
different (better) k-mesh
P.Blaha
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