[Wien] Oscillating convergence

shamik chakrabarti shamik15041981 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 09:52:14 CET 2022


Dear Prof. Blaha & Prof. Tran,

                                             I have started Full HYbrid
with alpha = 0.05 from scratch ( I have restored the GGA calculation in a
new folder & started the Hybrid after that). Let see what will happen.
Thanks for your advice.

with regards,

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 14:02, shamik chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But with GGA+U the simulated voltage is not matching with experiment...
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 14:00, Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
> wrote:
>
>> If your present calculation "diverged", I'd restore the GGA+U calculation.
>>
>> Am 12.01.2022 um 09:19 schrieb shamik chakrabarti:
>> > Dear Prof. Blaha,
>> >                         By grid to 0.01, I mean the mixing parameter in
>> > case.inm ( I change 0.2 to 0.01). For a trial can I check by reducing
>> > the alpha from 0.25 to 0.05 in case.inhf now? Or I need to start with
>> > 0.05 as alpha from the scratch?
>> >
>> > Looking forward to your reply.
>> >
>> > with regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 13:38, Peter Blaha <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>> > <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I'm not too surprised. In HSE there is not only a dependency on the
>> >     density (which is "mixed") but also on the wave functions. This HF
>> >     potential due to them is "mixed" with 100 %.
>> >
>> >     Maybe it helps when using a small alpha at the beginning (0.05
>> instead
>> >     of 0.25) for the amount of HF (case.inhf), later on increase it when
>> >     reasonably converged.
>> >
>> >     PS: I would probably not play with PRATT (except you can clearly
>> >     decrease :DIS significantly without oszillations) and I don't know
>> what
>> >     you mean with:  "grid to 0.01" ???
>> >
>> >     Am 12.01.2022 um 08:51 schrieb shamik chakrabarti:
>> >      > Dear Wien2k users,
>> >      >
>> >      >                        I have started a simulation of ABCO4 oxide
>> >      > material with 64 atomic unit cell using HSE06. However, the
>> energy &
>> >      > charge convergence is oscillating between 0.08-0.008 and 0.5 -
>> >     0.2 for
>> >      > around 100 cycles. The same structure was converged using GGA+U.
>> >     I have
>> >      > used 1 k-point & also change the grid to 0.01 & used PRATT for
>> >     several
>> >      > cycles now. What could be the remedy?
>> >      >
>> >      > (1) Is it that we need to use more than 1 k-point for convergence
>> >      > (2) There is something wrong with the structure (However the same
>> >      > structure is converged with GGA+U)
>> >      >
>> >      > Looking forward to hearing from you.
>> >      >
>> >      > with regards,
>> >      >
>> >      > --
>> >      > Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
>> >      > Research Fellow
>> >      > Department of Physics
>> >      > Indian Institute of Technology Patna
>> >      > Bihta-801103
>> >      > Patna
>> >      > Bihar, India
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> Indian Institute of Technology Patna
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Dr. Shamik Chakrabarti
Research Fellow
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Bihta-801103
Patna
Bihar, India
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