[Wien] Oscillating convergence

shamik chakrabarti shamik15041981 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 10:07:14 CET 2022


Dear Prof. Tran,
 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  I have started a fresh calculation in a new
directory.

Thanks for your advice.

With regards,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 14:30 Tran, Fabien <fabien.tran at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> I forgot to mention that before restarting the HSE calculation you should
> have executed
> clean_lapw to delete the possibly present case.vectorhf or
> case.vectorhf_from the old HSE
> calculation. They may perturb the convergemce.
>
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> chakrabarti <shamik15041981 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 9:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Wien] Oscillating convergence
>
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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
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> >      > Department of Physics
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