Dear Masood Yousaf,

Sorry, my mistake indeed: I forgot that XCrysDen (at least in version 1.5.53) does not recognise the Ångström units. Please try with 'local-TF'.

    Greetings,

       apsi

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  Ari Paavo Seitsonen / [email protected] / http://www.iki.fi/~apsi/
  Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Département de Chimie, Paris
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On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Masood Yousaf wrote:

Dear A. P. Seitsonen,

thank you for your suggestions. I will try it. Would you please explain more
about your comment "Please try multiplying your lattice vectors laterally by
two". What is motivation behind this move ? The input lattice vectors are in
accordance with the 2*2 supercell.

Best wishes
Masood Yousaf
UNIST, KOREA  



On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Ari P Seitsonen <[email protected]>
wrote:

      Dear Masood Yousaf,

        Please try multiplying your lattice vectors laterally by two;
      I would also try the 'mixing_mode = "local-TF"': That works
      better for me in inhomogeneous systems such as slabs (ie where
      there are high-density regions and vacuum).

        Some other notes:

       - Why not using 'ibrav = 4' and 'a', 'c' to define the lattice
      vectors? You would have much better accuracy, symmetries etc.
      Likewise for the coordinates, more precise digits would allow
      finding symmetries etc

       - Eventually the FHI potentials will need much higher cut-off
      energy, I seem to remember something like 90-120 Ry for Ni...
      (just for curiosity, I had the honour to share the office for
      some time with the GPP, Guru of Pseudo Potentials, at FHI, from
      whom the parametres of these pseudos might still originate from
      ;)

          Good Luck from Almost-Sunny Montrouge,

             apsi

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        Ari Paavo Seitsonen / [email protected] /
      http://www.iki.fi/~apsi/
        Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Département de Chimie, Paris
        Mobile (F) : +33 789 37 24 25    (CH) : +41 79 71 90 935


      On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Masood Yousaf wrote:

            Dear Members,

            Kindly have a look at the input file and suggest 
            why its so hard to
            converge this relatively moderate system. I tried to
            fix in different ways
            but failed. I tried the same structure in VASP and
            had no problem. I want to
            calculate RAMMAN spectra and that can only be
            calculated with LDA functional
            in Quantum espresso. I am using QE 5.1.


             &control
                calculation='relax'
                restart_mode='from_scratch'
                pseudo_dir = '/share/QE_pseudo'
                outdir='./'
                prefix='Graphane'
                forc_conv_thr=1.0D-4
                nstep=10000
            /
             &system
                ibrav=  0
                nat=  32,  ntyp= 3
                nspin =2
                starting_magnetization(2) = 0.7
                ecutwfc =60.0
                occupations='smearing'
                degauss=0.002
                smearing='mv',
            /
             &electrons
                conv_thr=1.0D-9
                mixing_mode='plain'
                mixing_beta=0.1D0
             /
            &ions
               ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'
              /
            ! &cell
            !    cell_dynamics = 'damp-w'
            !   cell_factor = 10.1D0
            /
            CELL_PARAMETERS {angstrom}
                 4.9363447999999996    0.0000000000000000   
            0.0000000000000000
                 2.4681723999999998    4.2750000000000004   
            0.0000000000000000
                 0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000  
            25.0000000000000000
            ATOMIC_SPECIES
            C  12.0111 C.pw-mt_fhi.UPF
            Ni 58.6934 Ni.pw-mt_fhi.UPF
            F  18.9984  F.pw-mt_fhi.UPF
            ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}
            C        3.116840000      3.174350000     
            1.386070000
            C        5.584900000      3.174230000     
            1.386000000
            C        1.882610000      1.036880000     
            1.385940000
            C        4.350760000      1.036680000     
            1.385960000
            C        1.882750000      2.461910000     
            1.888240000
            C        0.648640000      0.324320000     
            1.888230000
            C        4.350960000      2.461770000     
            1.888140000
            C        3.116790000      0.324280000     
            1.888150000
            C        1.882980000      2.461940000     
            3.476540000
            C        0.648890000      0.324350000     
            3.476400000
            C        4.351250000      2.461930000     
            3.476230000
            C        3.117130000      0.324400000     
            3.476380000
            C        6.819130000      3.887150000     
            3.951040000
            C        4.351050000      3.887040000     
            3.950790000
            C        3.116960000      1.749700000     
            3.950740000
            C        5.585010000      1.749700000     
            3.950910000
            Ni       6.828000000      3.886970000     
            5.917170000
            Ni       3.131720000      0.323340000     
            7.993850000
            Ni       4.367640000      1.035220000    
            10.009150000
            Ni       4.359850000      3.886850000     
            5.916790000
            Ni       0.663590000      0.323340000     
            7.993930000
            Ni       1.899450000      1.035270000    
            10.009360000
            Ni       5.593900000      1.749490000     
            5.916940000
            Ni       4.365770000      2.460850000     
            7.993890000
            Ni       5.601750000      3.172800000    
            10.009260000
            Ni       3.125750000      1.749380000     
            5.916700000
            Ni       1.897660000      2.460880000     
            7.993900000
            Ni       3.133520000      3.172820000    
            10.009440000
            F        5.584240000      3.175000000     
            0.000730000
            F        4.350170000      1.037440000     
            0.000850000
            F        1.882110000      1.037660000     
            0.000890000
            F        3.116200000      3.175230000     
            0.000920000
            K_POINTS {automatic}
              5 5 1 0 0 0


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            Best Wishes

            Masood Yousaf

            Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology,
            Korea




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