Good day allI am very grateful for the response to this forum and every
individual for contributing to help me with my challenges so far
I have corrected the errors on my atomic position, now my kpoint grid has been
sorted out all thanks to profs. Kim and Brendas and Prof. Giovani
Now im considering doing vc-relax calculation or structural optimization of my
structure, I need help with the most appropriate pseudopotential to use
considering van der well on the organic compound pedot
i have attached a copy of my crystal structure visualized with xcrysden to this
mail
Thank you all, im very grateful
Agbaoye Ridwan OlamideM.Sc. Physics(in View)Federal University of Agriculture,
[email protected]
On Friday, December 4, 2015 9:01 AM, Giovanni Cantele
<[email protected]> wrote:
1) what kind of convergence you haven’t reached yet? a) convergence of
structural optimisation (atomic positions), or b) convergence of unit cell
optimisation (e.g. if you use calculation=‘vc-relax’), or c) self-consistency
cycle
2) if by improving the sampling of the Brillouin zone (2x2x2, 3x3x3, ….)
nothing happens, maybe it can be that the parameter that prevents you system
from reaching convergence is not the k-point grid!!! Which pseudo potentials do
you use, and with which cutoff? For organic crystals, van der Waals
interactions might be important as well, have you already tried to switch them
on? Are you sure that the input positions are right, for example by visualising
your input file with XCrysden (such a practice is advisable BEFORE any, maybe
computationally expensive, run is started!)
3) the “acceptable" size of the k-point grid depends on the system under
investigation and on the property you are interested in (for a given grid,
there are properties that might be converged, and others that might be not!).
4) concerning grids that look like n x m x l instead of n x n x n , usually if
for example axes a and b are in the ratio a/b = u, than n and m have the
inverse ratio (n/m ~ 1/u). For example: a = b = c, use 4 x 4 x 4 ; a = b, c =
2a, use 4 x 4 x 2 (THIS ARE JUST EXAMPLES, THAT DO NOT PROVIDE CONVERGENCE
CRITERIA!).
GIOVANNI
> On 04 Dec 2015, at 14:23, Ridwan Agbaoye <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:41 AM, Ridwan Agbaoye
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> I am doing structural optimization for a monoclinic latice structured organic
> compound with 13 atoms, 4 types of atom (C,H,O and S) and , i need expertise
> advice on how my automatic kpoint grid required for optimization will look
> like, i tried 2 2 2 1 1 1, 3 3 3 1 1 1, 4 4 4 1 1 1... 9 9 9 1 1 1 but the
> result havent reached convergence yet even with the very very high
> computation time it require
>
> Recently i learnt i am not suppose to use the uniform kpoint grid but the
> ones that looked like 6 4 6 1 1 1 , 6 1 1 1 1 1, 8 4 8 1 1 1 etc
>
> please help me with the best automatic kpoint grid required for my system and
> how to determine the kind of kpoint grid to use for subsequent system
> calculation
>
> Thank you very much
>
>
> Agbaoye Ridwan Olamide
> M.Sc. (in view)
> Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
>
>
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