[Wien] No convergence during Volume Optimization

Laurence Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Mon Nov 14 22:41:41 CET 2016


Did you check how many iterations were used? By default with MSR1 it is 40,
you probably needed nothing more than increasing this by using -i 80 (for
instance).

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Abderrahmane Reggad <jazairdz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Dr Pieper for the rich information.
>
> Yes I have a antiferromagnetic material and for the convergence problem ;
> the calculation jumps to the next point before reaching the energy criteria
> (foe example with energy criteria of 0.0001 , it jumps when reaching energy
> difference of 0.0008 ).
>
> I have resolved the problem by using another values for the cell
> parameters and with different points for volume optimization.
>
> Thank you again for the apreciated help
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Mr: A.Reggad
> Laboratoire de Génie Physique
> Université Ibn Khaldoun - Tiaret
> Algerie
>
>
>


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