<div dir="ltr">As people start to use 18.1, I want to draw attention to a few points as there are differences in the mixer.<div><ol><li>The treatment of the plane waves and density inside the spheres is different, more rigorous. There should be very little difference in final results (within mRyd or less in energy).</li><li>The treatment of orbital potentials is better. It is still important to check that :MV has converged, as it remains possible to get a false fixed-point solution.</li><li>Typically Mango uses much smaller GREED than previous versions. Since a more rigorous last-step process is used, this should not be an issue. (How much smaller surprised me.)</li><li>The mixer now prints out the "Pseudo Charge", the plane wave density inside the muffin tins; there is a brief discussion in README_10.1. While, with exact arithmetic this does not matter, with a finite plane wave expansion and also in MSR1a it is <i style="font-weight:bold">very</i> important in many cases. I strongly suspect that many cases of bad convergence are related to the Pseudo Charge, perhaps even ghost bands. (The Pseudo Charge issues have been present in all Wien releases, they are not new, but I don't think there importance was appreciated.)</li><li>The mixer still has the older MSEC3 option. In some cases this is more stable. MSECa (MSEC3 + position optimization) works, but might get stuck in local minima or traps.</li><li>As with all previous versions, no mixer can cope well with a badly posed physical (or chemical) problem.</li></ol><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Professor Laurence Marks</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Albert Szent-Gyorgi</span><br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a> ; <span style="font-size:12.8px">Corrosion in 4D: </span><a href="http://MURI4D.numis.northwestern.edu" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">MURI4D.numis.northwestern.edu</a><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Partner of the CFW 100% program for gender equity, </span><a href="http://www.cfw.org/100-percent" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">www.cfw.org/100-percent</a></div><div>Co-Editor, Acta Cryst A</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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