<div dir="ltr">Dera Prof. Blaha Sir,<div><br></div><div> Thank you very much for your reply. It is indeed very helpful. Yes energy convergence has been reached up to ~ 0.001 so far. Also E-tot & FR is decreasing. We are using 14 k-points for a 56 atomic cell. However, there is one doubt...the material is found to be in semiconducting range with a band gap of ~3 eV. Do you think for such a high band-gap material 80 iterations may not be much & should we wait?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>with regards, </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Peter Blaha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">80 iterations for a more complicated MSR1a optimization is NOT much. I often need a couple of 100 iterations for a big (metallic and magnetic) system with 3d elements.<br>
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However, make sure:<br>
<br>
grep :DIS case.scf is showing a "reasonable" convergence" (eg. it should not stay long above 1.0)<br>
grep :ENE case.scf shows a trend that E-tot is reducing (not necessarily monotonically, but overall .<br>
grep :FR case.scf is decreasing (overall).<br>
<br>
If these criteria are fulfilled, continue.<br>
<br>
If not, you may have started very poorly ?? or you should use a better k-mesh or TEMP+smearing, or your RMT,... is bad ....<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 08/28/2014 10:46 AM, shamik chakrabarti wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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Dear wien2k users,<br>
<br>
We are doing force minimization of a spinel<br>
compound using MSR1a. After even 80 iterations, force on some atoms are<br>
200 mRy/a.u. while on some atoms it is ~ 7 mRy/a.u. We are using a<br>
mixing grid of default 0.2 in case.inm.<br>
<br>
My query is that should we change this grid to say at 0.5 for speeding<br>
up the process or will that change eventually sets some undesirable<br>
oscillations in the calculation?....or should we just wait with all<br>
default values as long as the force will not come below 5<br>
mRy/a.u.?....or is their any prescription for optimizing the process to<br>
get correct output in real time scale?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
with regards,<br>
--<br>
Shamik Chakrabarti<br>
Senior Research Fellow<br>
Dept. of Physics & Meteorology<br>
Material Processing & Solid State Ionics Lab<br>
IIT Kharagpur<br>
Kharagpur 721302<br>
INDIA<br>
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