Great, I have now added this to the manual to help new users.

Den ons. 24. nov. 2021 kl. 22.04 skrev Fanmiao Kong <
fanmiao.k...@materials.ox.ac.uk>:

> Dear Nick,
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>
> Thanks for your kind reminder. I will avoid using rar format later.
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> I followed Daniel’s advice and have successfully re-run my calculation.
> The problem has been solved.
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> Best wishes,
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>
>
> Fanmiao
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>
>
> Fanmiao Kong
>
> Department of Materials, Trinity College, University of Oxford
>
> Tel: +44 (0)7529931806 / +86 13162054601
>
> 16 Parks Road, OX1 3PH, Oxford, UK
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>
>
> *From:* siesta-l-requ...@uam.es <siesta-l-requ...@uam.es> *On Behalf Of *Nick
> Papior
> *Sent:* 23 November 2021 12:07
> *To:* siesta-l <siesta-l@uam.es>
> *Subject:* Re: [SIESTA-L] Problems of Siesta Calculation with Large
> Electric Field
>
>
>
> HI, Daniel gave an excellent solution.
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> Could you report back whether that solved the problem?
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>
> Also for future reference, rar compressed files are generally not
> advised... zip/tar.gz/tar.* are generally better (more portable).
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> Den fre. 19. nov. 2021 kl. 22.05 skrev Fanmiao Kong <
> fanmiao.k...@materials.ox.ac.uk>:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply!
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>
>
> I attached the fdf and psf files here.
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> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Fanmiao
>
>
>
> Fanmiao Kong
>
> Department of Materials, Trinity College, University of Oxford
>
> Tel: +44 (0)7529931806 / +86 13162054601
>
> 16 Parks Road, OX1 3PH, Oxford, UK
>
>
>
> *From:* siesta-l-requ...@uam.es <siesta-l-requ...@uam.es> *On Behalf Of *Nick
> Papior
> *Sent:* 17 November 2021 21:08
> *To:* siesta-l <siesta-l@uam.es>
> *Subject:* Re: [SIESTA-L] Problems of Siesta Calculation with Large
> Electric Field
>
>
>
> Hi,
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>
> Could you attach a complete workable example (fdf and psf files)?
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> Den ons. 17. nov. 2021 kl. 22.03 skrev Fanmiao Kong <
> fanmiao.k...@materials.ox.ac.uk>:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I met some bugs when I do Siesta calculation under electric field.
> Sometimes the calculation doesn’t converge after 500 steps in a SCF cycle,
> or sometimes the hydrogen atoms in my structure are ionized. I attached the
> output file here where the calculation didn’t converge and I stopped it. I
> suppose this is because of the very large electric field ( between 1.5 –
> 2.1 V/Ang), since I don’t have this problem with electric field below 0.1
> V/Ang. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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>
>
> Many thanks!
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>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Fanmiao
>
>
>
> Fanmiao Kong
>
> Department of Materials, Trinity College, University of Oxford
>
> Tel: +44 (0)7529931806 / +86 13162054601
>
> 16 Parks Road, OX1 3PH, Oxford, UK
>
>
>
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> European H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence (http://www.max-centre.eu/)
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> Kind regards Nick
>
>
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> SIESTA is supported by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and by the
> European H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence (http://www.max-centre.eu/)
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> --
>
> Kind regards Nick
>
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> SIESTA is supported by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and by the
> European H2020 MaX Centre of Excellence (http://www.max-centre.eu/)
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