Thank you very much Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto for your response. The nscf process goes well after setting diago_thr_init to 1e-7, but when only using *'ppcg'* diagonalization, the process also goes well. Now, should I only change the diagonalization?
Regards, Reem On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:26 AM Lorenzo Paulatto < [email protected]> wrote: > In versions of QE before 6.7 the thereshold for diagonalization of nscf > calculations can be too tight. Try to set it by hand by setting > diago_thr_init t osome reasonable value, like 1e-7. Also, don't use 'cg' > diagonalization unless energy is free in your country (you can try new > algorithms like ppcg if you want, may be faster for nscf). > > regards > > Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto > IdR @ IMPMC - CNRS UMR 7590 & Sorbonne Université > phone: +33 (0)1 442 79822 / skype: paulatz > http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/ - http://sf.net/p/d3q > 23-24/423 B115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris CX 05 > On Feb 8 2021, at 10:48 pm, Reem Abdel-Kader Ibrahim <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear users, > I am working on doping graphene nanomesh with scandium. I did scf > calculation and it did well. Then I ran nscf, but always got an error > message: "*Too many bands are not converged*". I have tried to increase > *ecutwfc* from 45 to 80 , but got the same error. Also, I have tried to > decrease *conv_thr* to 1.0e-9, but the same error. However, I was working > with the graphene nanomesh without Sc atom, and the scf and nscf > calculations were doing well. > > The input files are following: > scf.in: > &CONTROL > calculation = 'scf' , > restart_mode = 'from_scratch' , > pseudo_dir = '/psudo' , > outdir = '/tmp', > prefix= 'gn.sc', > tstress = .true. , > tprnfor = .true. , > forc_conv_thr = 1.00e-03, > wf_collect=.true., > nstep = 200, > max_seconds = 65000 , > > verbosity = 'high' , > > / > &SYSTEM > ibrav = 0, > celldm(1) = 27.89615, > nat = 72, > ntyp = 3, > nspin=2, > starting_magnetization(1)= 0.5, > > ecutwfc = 60.0 , > ecutrho = 600.0 , > nbnd = 280, > occupations = 'smearing' , > degauss = 0.002 , > smearing = 'fermi-dirac' , > / > &ELECTRONS > conv_thr = 1.0e-8 , > mixing_mode = 'local-TF' , > mixing_beta = 0.2 , > diagonalization = 'david' , > > / > &IONS > ion_dynamics = 'damp', > pot_extrapolation = 'second_order', > wfc_extrapolation = 'second_order', > > / > CELL_PARAMETERS > 0.8660254037844386 -0.5 0.000000000 > 0.8660254037844386 0.5 0.000000000 > 0.000000000 0.000000000 1.05 > > ATOMIC_SPECIES > Sc 44.955912 Sc.pbe-spn-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > C 12.01070 C.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > H 1.00794 H.pbe-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > > ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom) > Sc 0.075617968 0.289821895 0.000000000 > C 1.841864350 -0.074257015 0.000000000 > C 2.250599961 -1.349110971 0.000000000 > C 2.237722708 1.230253072 0.000000000 > C 3.644501279 -1.310104833 0.000000000 > C 3.654938628 1.234205490 0.000000000 > C 4.292823115 -2.522125909 0.000000000 > C 4.298370551 -0.036748469 0.000000000 > C 4.352481848 2.435357814 0.000000000 > C 5.666428775 -2.501473702 0.000000000 > C 5.678351741 -0.026836419 0.000000000 > C 5.744806594 2.446140468 0.000000000 > C 6.284959790 -3.754026165 0.000000000 > C 6.337305147 -1.264814968 0.000000000 > C 6.373876062 1.200778014 0.000000000 > C 6.444521895 3.681593179 0.000000000 > C 7.641960373 -3.764685380 0.000000000 > C 7.705064112 -1.376983277 0.000000000 > C 7.743671548 1.302833282 0.000000000 > C 7.842694656 3.716345229 0.000000000 > C 8.399892462 -4.905935272 0.000000000 > C 8.259090301 -2.562973836 0.000000000 > C 8.418611467 2.442431045 0.000000000 > C 8.502099913 4.963849208 0.000000000 > C 9.787113573 -4.746312031 0.000000000 > C 9.900308327 5.039375902 0.000000000 > C 10.504273974 -5.938831678 0.000000000 > C 10.626663250 -3.602955133 0.000000000 > C 10.639641789 3.891306250 0.000000000 > C 10.653815005 6.207682579 0.000000000 > C 11.807843603 -5.601366538 0.000000000 > C 12.026935106 5.950104801 0.000000000 > C 11.974061635 -3.492126259 0.000000000 > C 11.955901485 3.683070230 0.000000000 > C 12.776605263 -4.653156326 0.000000000 > C 12.791049186 4.804715812 0.000000000 > C 14.253877780 -4.929524766 0.000000000 > C 14.439416299 -2.565560929 0.000000000 > C 14.352077852 2.473824980 0.000000000 > C 14.247549453 4.868093756 0.000000000 > C 15.051611979 -3.787191507 0.000000000 > C 14.980878190 3.693850665 0.000000000 > C 15.063066205 -1.404019808 0.000000000 > C 14.957437538 1.296267303 0.000000000 > C 16.443735927 -3.737300312 0.000000000 > C 16.436049694 -1.289010591 0.000000000 > C 16.346270483 1.168826636 0.000000000 > C 16.371457768 3.645270147 0.000000000 > C 17.126378915 -2.504168042 0.000000000 > C 17.081809145 -0.041251226 0.000000000 > C 17.022902888 2.396219081 0.000000000 > C 18.530591563 -2.476222874 0.000000000 > C 18.419565958 2.392848872 0.000000000 > C 18.473973168 -0.026645424 0.000000000 > C 19.193815533 -1.239724815 0.000000000 > C 19.157362299 1.203025712 0.000000000 > C 20.603612002 -1.210523499 0.000000000 > C 20.570744041 1.229762388 0.000000000 > C 21.324504163 0.026242481 0.000000000 > C 22.724016305 0.100687092 0.000000000 > H 12.169490038 -2.430178108 0.000000000 > H 13.414233784 -2.458009102 0.000000000 > H 13.317389513 2.376349652 0.000000000 > H 9.271593348 -2.478217927 0.000000000 > H 14.368433407 -0.627056947 0.000000000 > H 14.197939450 0.566359179 0.000000000 > H 10.401649916 -2.568600783 0.000000000 > H 8.467678881 -0.659843339 0.000000000 > H 8.437925451 0.526289432 0.000000000 > H 9.420142990 2.103789638 0.000000000 > H 10.160696653 2.984838860 0.000000000 > H 12.093674315 2.619954299 0.000000000 > K_POINTS automatic > 12 12 1 0 0 0 > > nscf.in > &CONTROL > calculation = 'nscf' , > restart_mode = 'from_scratch' , > pseudo_dir = '/psudo' , > outdir = '/tmp', > prefix= 'gn.sc', > tstress = .true. , > tprnfor = .true. , > forc_conv_thr = 1.00e-03, > wf_collect=.true., > nstep = 200, > max_seconds = 65000 , > disk_io = 'high' , > verbosity = 'high' , > > / > &SYSTEM > ibrav = 0, > celldm(1) = 27.89615, > nat = 72, > ntyp = 3, > nspin=2, > starting_magnetization(1)= 0.5, > > ecutwfc = 60.0 , > ecutrho = 600.0 , > nbnd = 300, > occupations = 'tetrahedra' , > > > / > &ELECTRONS > conv_thr = 1.0e-8 , > mixing_mode = 'local-TF' , > mixing_beta = 0.2 , > diagonalization = 'cg' , > > / > &IONS > ion_dynamics = 'damp', > pot_extrapolation = 'second_order', > wfc_extrapolation = 'second_order', > > / > CELL_PARAMETERS > 0.8660254037844386 -0.5 0.000000000 > 0.8660254037844386 0.5 0.000000000 > 0.000000000 0.000000000 1.05 > > ATOMIC_SPECIES > Sc 44.955912 Sc.pbe-spn-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > C 12.01070 C.pbe-n-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > H 1.00794 H.pbe-rrkjus_psl.1.0.0.UPF > > ATOMIC_POSITIONS (angstrom) > Sc 0.075617968 0.289821895 0.000000000 > C 1.841864350 -0.074257015 0.000000000 > C 2.250599961 -1.349110971 0.000000000 > C 2.237722708 1.230253072 0.000000000 > C 3.644501279 -1.310104833 0.000000000 > C 3.654938628 1.234205490 0.000000000 > C 4.292823115 -2.522125909 0.000000000 > C 4.298370551 -0.036748469 0.000000000 > C 4.352481848 2.435357814 0.000000000 > C 5.666428775 -2.501473702 0.000000000 > C 5.678351741 -0.026836419 0.000000000 > C 5.744806594 2.446140468 0.000000000 > C 6.284959790 -3.754026165 0.000000000 > C 6.337305147 -1.264814968 0.000000000 > C 6.373876062 1.200778014 0.000000000 > C 6.444521895 3.681593179 0.000000000 > C 7.641960373 -3.764685380 0.000000000 > C 7.705064112 -1.376983277 0.000000000 > C 7.743671548 1.302833282 0.000000000 > C 7.842694656 3.716345229 0.000000000 > C 8.399892462 -4.905935272 0.000000000 > C 8.259090301 -2.562973836 0.000000000 > C 8.418611467 2.442431045 0.000000000 > C 8.502099913 4.963849208 0.000000000 > C 9.787113573 -4.746312031 0.000000000 > C 9.900308327 5.039375902 0.000000000 > C 10.504273974 -5.938831678 0.000000000 > C 10.626663250 -3.602955133 0.000000000 > C 10.639641789 3.891306250 0.000000000 > C 10.653815005 6.207682579 0.000000000 > C 11.807843603 -5.601366538 0.000000000 > C 12.026935106 5.950104801 0.000000000 > C 11.974061635 -3.492126259 0.000000000 > C 11.955901485 3.683070230 0.000000000 > C 12.776605263 -4.653156326 0.000000000 > C 12.791049186 4.804715812 0.000000000 > C 14.253877780 -4.929524766 0.000000000 > C 14.439416299 -2.565560929 0.000000000 > C 14.352077852 2.473824980 0.000000000 > C 14.247549453 4.868093756 0.000000000 > C 15.051611979 -3.787191507 0.000000000 > C 14.980878190 3.693850665 0.000000000 > C 15.063066205 -1.404019808 0.000000000 > C 14.957437538 1.296267303 0.000000000 > C 16.443735927 -3.737300312 0.000000000 > C 16.436049694 -1.289010591 0.000000000 > C 16.346270483 1.168826636 0.000000000 > C 16.371457768 3.645270147 0.000000000 > C 17.126378915 -2.504168042 0.000000000 > C 17.081809145 -0.041251226 0.000000000 > C 17.022902888 2.396219081 0.000000000 > C 18.530591563 -2.476222874 0.000000000 > C 18.419565958 2.392848872 0.000000000 > C 18.473973168 -0.026645424 0.000000000 > C 19.193815533 -1.239724815 0.000000000 > C 19.157362299 1.203025712 0.000000000 > C 20.603612002 -1.210523499 0.000000000 > C 20.570744041 1.229762388 0.000000000 > C 21.324504163 0.026242481 0.000000000 > C 22.724016305 0.100687092 0.000000000 > H 12.169490038 -2.430178108 0.000000000 > H 13.414233784 -2.458009102 0.000000000 > H 13.317389513 2.376349652 0.000000000 > H 9.271593348 -2.478217927 0.000000000 > H 14.368433407 -0.627056947 0.000000000 > H 14.197939450 0.566359179 0.000000000 > H 10.401649916 -2.568600783 0.000000000 > H 8.467678881 -0.659843339 0.000000000 > H 8.437925451 0.526289432 0.000000000 > H 9.420142990 2.103789638 0.000000000 > H 10.160696653 2.984838860 0.000000000 > H 12.093674315 2.619954299 0.000000000 > K_POINTS automatic > 24 24 1 0 0 0 > > ,can anyone help me with this issue? > > Regards, > Reem > > _______________________________________________ > Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu) > users mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu) > users mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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