Dear Michal and folks,
A few days ago I've faced exactly the same problem after recompiling
QE 6.5 with LibXC 4.3.4 to use TB09 to see its effect on the band
gap of some semiconductors.
What I saw instead is that an scf run of the SCAN functional, also a
metaGGA one, converges smoothly on top of a scf, relax or vc-relax
job using PBE, for example. TB09 and the others metaGGA available
show the divergent behavior you are mentioning.
Then, I tried a TB09 job on top of the converged SCAN calculation
using restart_mode = 'restart' and the job converged in a few
iterations, no divergence was observed. After the TB09 scf job
converged, I was able to run nscf and bands jobs to obtain both DOS
and band structures.
I understand this is not a solution, but a workaround as a more
elegant solution is found.
Regards,
Reinaldo Pis Diez
Center of Inorganic Chemistry
National University of La Plata
Argentina
Dear Paolo,
I changed io_rho_xml.f90 so that if the kinetic energy density file
isn't found, the array is set to 0:
155d144
< LOGICAL :: ekin_density_exists
172,180c161,164
< INQUIRE( FILE=TRIM(dirname) // "ekin-density",
EXIST=ekin_density_exists)
< IF ( ekin_density_exists ) THEN
< CALL read_rhog( TRIM(dirname) // "ekin-density", &
< root_bgrp, intra_bgrp_comm, &
< ig_l2g, nspin_, rho%kin_g, gamma_only )
< WRITE(stdout,'(5x,"Reading meta-gga kinetic term")')
< ELSE
< rho%kin_g = 1.0
< ENDIF
Now I can start a TB09 calculation from a PBE density, but still my
test case diverges immediately (=faster than when starting from
scratch), regardless of diagonalization method. For example:
The initial density is read from file :
./sic.save/charge-density
Starting wfcs from file
total cpu time spent up to now is 0.3 secs
Self-consistent Calculation
iteration # 1 ecut= 82.00 Ry beta= 0.40
CG style diagonalization
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Error in routine c_bands (1):
too many bands are not converged
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
I would be very grateful for any suggestions.
Best,
Michal
P.S. This is my input file:
&CONTROL
calculation = "scf"
prefix = "sic"
/
&SYSTEM
a = 4.34800e+00
ibrav = 1
ecutwfc = 82
ecutrho = 328
nat = 8
ntyp = 2
occupations = "fixed"
input_dft='tb09'
/
&ELECTRONS
electron_maxstep = 1000
conv_thr = 1e-10
mixing_mode = 'plain'
mixing_beta = 0.4
startingpot = 'file'
startingwfc = 'file'
diagonalization = 'cg'
/
K_POINTS automatic
8 8 8 1 1 1
ATOMIC_SPECIES
Si 28.08500 Si.upf
C 12.01060 C.upf
ATOMIC_POSITIONS {angstrom}
Si 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
Si 0.000000 2.174000 2.174000
Si 2.174000 0.000000 2.174000
Si 2.174000 2.174000 0.000000
C 1.087000 1.087000 1.087000
C 1.087000 3.261000 3.261000
C 3.261000 1.087000 3.261000
C 3.261000 3.261000 1.087000
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 09:39, Paolo Giannozzi <p.gianno...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:33 PM Michal Krompiec <michal.kromp...@gmail.com>
wrote:
it was suggested to start from a density calculated with a different
functional, but when I try to read in PBE density, it complains that it cannot
read the kinetic energy file (which obviously cannot be there).
this can be easily changed, I think: just disable the check and set the kinetic
energy density to zero
Should TPSS or SCAN pseudos work better (and where do I get them from)?
I don't think the problem is in the pseudos but in the nasty numerical behavior
of meta-GGAs. See for instance here: https://gitlab.com/QEF/q-e/-/issues/32.
Note that several bugs have been fixed in the development version.
Paolo
Thanks,
Michal Krompiec
Merck KGaA
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