[Wien] Charge Convergence is not achieved

[shamik chakrabarti]

Dear Laurence Marks Sir,

              Thank you very much for your reply.....yes the question may
not have a very good answer....if in any calculation we are not getting the
desired convergence, it may happen that:
(1) Our chosen functional is not appropriate for the system

(2) The system (say while trying to predict a new material!) may not be
feasible at all..

Probably all we can say that if we are able to achieve desired convergence
(say 0.0001) we can say that we have used the appropriate functional for the
system and the system is (may be) feasible (at least theoretically!! ).

Sir please correct me if I am wrong in my concept.

with best regards,

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Laurence Marks <L-marks at northwestern.edu>wrote:

> 2011/7/7 Shamik Chakrabarti <shamikiitkgp at gmail.com>:
> > Dear Peter Blaha Sir,
> >                        Indeed by increasing number of K points we got the
> > convergence. Sir I have now some basic queries on this topic. You have
> said
> > that
> >                     "sometimes you cannot reach (easily) arbitrary
> > convergence"
> > why in some cases we can not reach convergence up to our desired
> limit?...is
> > it the limitation of DFT?....or it means that the feasibility of the
> > solution is only up to the achieved convergence?
>
> This is in fact a deep, and very good question, at least in my opinion.
>
> Unfortunately that does not mean that there is a good answer to it!
>
> With the perfect functional convergence should (I believe, others may
> disagree) always be good. With a very imperfect functional it is quite
> possible that a DFT calculation will not converge, i.e. it is
> unfeasible. Empirically many (but not all) metals do not converge well
> with small numbers of k-points, but some others do. Why....I do not
> understand as I cannot write down a mathematical analysis to explain
> this and do not believe that there is a formal analysis in the
> literature, it is just empirical knowledge (folklore).
>
>
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Shamik Chakrabarti
Research Scholar
Dept. of Physics & Meteorology
Material Processing & Solid State Ionics Lab
IIT Kharagpur
Kharagpur 721302
INDIA
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