Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to geometry optimize graphene on Cu (111) surface using LDA pseudos.
At the 0th CG step the max constrained force is around 7 eV/A but at
the 1st CG step it increases to to more than 1000 eV /A. I'm not quite
sure why there should be such a large change. I also tried Broyden
(One thread on the forum says broyden is more stable than CG) instead
of Cg but the result remains the same. Please can someone explain why
the maximum force should change so abruptly. Also what would be a good
way to optimize such a structure?

My input files are attached.

Regards,

Juzar Thingna
Department of Physics,
Center for Computation Science and Engineering,
National University of Singapore.


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