[Wien] Optimize and Geometry minimization

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Dec 21 15:33:33 CET 2005


>    I encounter some questions about Optimize and Geometry minimization,my optimize procedure is (1) loop over different coa's at constant volume
>    Since what i'm calculating is impurity system,so I should do geometry minimization.In optimize.job I use  min -I -j "runsp_lapw -orb -so -cc 0.001 -i 40 ",

No wonder that the minimization fails. You must use "force"-convergence,
otherwise your forces are not correct. Furthermore, you cannot use -orb nor
-so when you want correct forces !

 min -I -j "runsp_lapw  -cc 0.001 -i 40 -fc 1 "


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