Dear QE Community,

I have a question about performing orbital/charge analysis of a trimmed 
structure. Let’s say I had minimized a structure by molecular dynamics code and 
then trim the structure down because of computational limitations before 
feeding it into Quantum ESPRESSO(QE).

If I fed the trimmed structure for SCF calculations in QE, the SCF calculation 
would not converge because the trimmed structure was never minimized. But I 
know the whole structure was minimized, and I want to pay attention to the 
system’s center, which may not be affected by the system trimming. Moreover, it 
will be a relative study. Hence, any distortion in one system will be in all 
the systems leading to some locales of the trimmed structure becoming 
independent from system trimming.   

Given the above explanation, what will be the best approach to make the system 
converged in SCF calculations to proceed ahead to charge transfer analysis 
tools? I was thinking about lowering the cutoff threshold, so I want to 
confirm, is that the best/only option I have in this case, or can I do 
something else as well?

Thank you very much for any suggestions/feedback.

——
Jatin Kashyap 
Ph.D. Student
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07102-1982
Phone- (201)889-5783
Email- [email protected]

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