Dear PW'ers 

I have a problem in converging a calculation with SO coupling on a large system 
of Bi3Fe5O12 (BIG).. (nomen omen). 

I am doing a calculation with addiction of Hubbard U on Fe d- orbitals, and SO 
on Bi atoms only 
thus full relativistic pseudo on Bi and scalar relativistic pseudos on Fe and O 
species. 

Naively I tried differents solutions: 

1. SCF SO + U calculation from scratch with 
2. SCF SO+U calculation from a previous spin polarized GGA+U calculation 
(nspin=2, startingpot=file to read the precalculated density). 


In all the cases my total energy after even 1000 electronic steps is still 
oscillating and not converging at all, as the magnetic moments thou. 
I tried to reduce the mixing_beta even to 10^-5 without any improvement as 
well. 

BTW, I did a similar calculation on a similar system, YIG substituting the Bi 
with the Y without encoutering any issues in the SO calculation. 



For that I am asking you some help because I do not understand if I am doing 
something really wrong or not. 


I attach the input file in the mail. 

Many thanks for the support. 
Federico 

        
Federico IORI 
Marie Curie Fellow 
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides 
Bâtiment 510 - Rue André Rivière 
91400 Orsay 


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