Hi, Your vcrelax is not completed (only have two iterations), try to reduce ecutwfc (50 will be sufficient for vcrelax) and redo the vcrelax. Your convergence parameters are very poorly defined, go to the documentation and have a look https://www.quantum-espresso.org/Doc/INPUT_PW.html
Bests, On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 9:12 AM Poonam Kaushik <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > Thank you so much for your quick response. Previously, I attached my scf > input. Here, I am attaching my vc-relax calculations. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Poonam Sharma > Research Scholar > Department of Physics > Indian Institute of Technology Bombay > Mumbai - 400076 > India. > > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:04 AM Yuvam Bhateja <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mam, >> >> The input is quite confusing, you said you are performing vc-relax >> calculation but you are performing scf calculation while also calculating >> the forces. >> >> Plus, I have observed that your convergence threshold is quite large at >> 1.00000e-4, so even in optimization calculation your results won't be very >> accurate and fluctuate. This causes large 'Total scf correction' and causes >> the calculation to stop. >> >> Let me know if I can help further. >> >> Regards >> >> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020, 11:50 pm Poonam Kaushik, <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear QE users, >>> I have been trying to perform a vc-relax calculation with 24 atoms. >>> After two scf steps, I am not able to achieve the convergence. My scf >>> calculation finished successfully with the forces >>> Total force = 0.052988 Total SCF correction = 0.001992 >>> Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure >>> total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= >>> 19.11 >>> 0.00018596 0.00000000 0.00000000 27.36 0.00 >>> 0.00 >>> 0.00000000 0.00018596 0.00000000 0.00 27.36 >>> 0.00 >>> 0.00000000 -0.00000000 0.00001780 0.00 -0.00 >>> 2.62 >>> >>> I tried many attempts by changing the mixing beta, mixing mode, and >>> degauss value as suggested in the Forum. I also visualized my structure >>> after each step. I am attaching my input file, please have a look. >>> I myself not able to recognize something wrong that I am doing. I'll >>> very thankful for any suggestions. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Poonam Sharma >>> Research Scholar >>> Department of Physics >>> Indian Institute of Technology Bombay >>> Mumbai - 400076 >>> India. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu/quantum-espresso >>> ) >>> users mailing list [email protected] >>> https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ > Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu/quantum-espresso) > users mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Manoar Hossain Research Scholar School of Physical Sciences National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, Jatni, Khurda, Odisha, 752050, INDIA
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