Re: [QE-users] unconverged issue in spin-polarized SCAN calculations

2023-03-14 Thread Giuseppe Mattioli
Dear Yi-min Ding Supposing that the pristine silicon nitride cell converges without problems, try first to use smearing (uncomment the lines) and to reduce mixing_beta to a low or very low value (0.1-0.01). I don't know silicon nitride very well, so excuse me for the possibly stupid

[QE-users] unconverged issue in spin-polarized SCAN calculations

2023-03-14 Thread 丁以民 via users
Dear all, I am doing a scf calculation for a FM system using SCAN functional. But, the energy in output file is positive, and the run shown no converged tendency. The input and out files are shown below:. input: system ibrav =4 a=2.9063917063813576 c=25 nat = 7 ntyp = 3 ecutwfc =