> ecutwfc = 350 , > Pb 207.20000 Pb_PBE.upf There aren't many pseudopotentials that can work with such a huge cutoff without ghost states. I don't know if this is the source of your problem, because I do not have access to the pseudopotential in question. If it is custom-made I would say it is the cause with 95% probability. OtherwiseIf you are lucky, it may be an electron wandering off in the vacuum region. Using a proper vacuum treatment or reducing the amount of vacuum may help. -- Lorenzo Paulatto - Paris On Apr 5 2021, at 9:57 am, Riemann Derakhshan <riemann.derakhs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear PWSCF Community, > > Hope you are fine. > > Through the vc-relax calculations for the Pb slab, after some iterations I'm > getting the below error: > > Error in routine cdiaghg (95): > problems computing cholesky > > > I will highly appreciate it if you share your ideas with me about what causes > this error and how it can be fixed. > > Herewith I've attached my input file and relevant part of the output file for > your consideration. > > Regards, > Vahid > > ================ INPUT ================================================== > &CONTROL > calculation = 'vc-relax' , > restart_mode = 'from_scratch' , > wf_collect = .true. , > outdir = './' , > pseudo_dir = '${HOME}/Pseudo' , > prefix = 'Pb' , > disk_io = 'low' , > verbosity = 'high' , > / > &SYSTEM > ibrav = 0, > celldm(1) = 9.5770828664d0, > nat = 10, > ntyp = 1, > > ecutwfc = 350 , > > > occupations = 'smearing' , > degauss = 0.005d0 , > smearing = 'marzari-vanderbilt' , > / > &ELECTRONS > conv_thr = 1d-06 , > mixing_beta = 0.3d0 , > / > &IONS > ion_dynamics = 'bfgs' , > / > &CELL > cell_dynamics = 'bfgs' , > cell_dofree = 'xyz' , > / > CELL_PARAMETERS alat > 0.707106781 -0.707106781 0.000000000 > 0.707106781 0.707106781 0.000000000 > 0.000000000 0.000000000 8.419525238 > ATOMIC_SPECIES > Pb 207.20000 Pb_PBE.upf > ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal > Pb 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.410921343 > Pb 0.500000000 0.500000000 0.410921343 > Pb 0.500000000 -0.000000000 0.470307114 > Pb 1.000000000 0.500000000 0.470307114 > Pb 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.529692886 > Pb 0.500000000 0.500000000 0.529692886 > Pb 0.500000000 0.000000000 0.589078657 > Pb 0.000000000 0.500000000 0.589078657 > Pb 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.648464428 > Pb 0.500000000 0.500000000 0.648464428 > K_POINTS automatic > 12 12 1 0 0 0 > > > ================ OUTPUT ================================================= > > Total force = 0.030286 Total SCF correction = 0.001308 > > Computing stress (Cartesian axis) and pressure > total stress (Ry/bohr**3) (kbar) P= -5.93 > -0.00004600 0.00000000 0.00000000 -6.77 0.00 0.00 > -0.00000000 -0.00004600 0.00000000 -0.00 -6.77 0.00 > 0.00000000 0.00000000 -0.00002896 0.00 0.00 -4.26 > > kinetic stress (kbar) 9163.73 -0.00 0.00 > -0.00 9163.73 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 9164.69 > > local stress (kbar)-359922.74 -0.00 -0.00 > -0.00-359922.74 0.00 > -0.00 0.00 362267.51 > > nonloc. stress (kbar) -4413.05 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 -4413.05 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 -4416.09 > > hartree stress (kbar) 181406.68 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 181406.68 -0.00 > 0.00 -0.00-177773.50 > > exc-cor stress (kbar) 3339.47 0.00 -0.00 > 0.00 3339.47 -0.00 > -0.00 -0.00 3338.34 > > corecor stress (kbar) -4931.22 -0.00 0.00 > -0.00 -4931.22 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 -4931.14 > > ewald stress (kbar) 175350.37 -0.00 0.00 > -0.00 175350.37 0.00 > 0.00 0.00-187654.08 > > hubbard stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > london stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > DFT-D3 stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > XDM stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > dft-nl stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > TS-vdW stress (kbar) 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > 0.00 0.00 0.00 > > > > number of scf cycles = 3 > number of bfgs steps = 2 > > enthalpy old = -1404.1369323220 Ry > enthalpy new = -1404.1396592796 Ry > > CASE: enthalpy_new < enthalpy_old > new trust radius = 0.0345760219 bohr > new conv_thr = 0.0000001090 Ry > > new unit-cell volume = 7321.96851 a.u.^3 ( 1085.00378 Ang^3 ) > density = 3.17108 g/cm^3 > > CELL_PARAMETERS (alat= 9.57708287) > 0.702858310 -0.707106781 0.000000000 > 0.707106781 0.702858310 0.000000000 > 0.000000000 0.000000000 8.385663933 > > ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal) > Pb 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 0.4116796836 > Pb 0.5000000000 0.5000000000 0.4116796677 > Pb 0.5000000000 -0.0000000000 0.4695686463 > Pb 1.0000000000 0.5000000000 0.4695686463 > Pb 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 0.5296894606 > Pb 0.5000000000 0.5000000000 0.5296894615 > Pb 0.5000000000 -0.0000000000 0.5898160423 > Pb 0.0000000000 0.5000000000 0.5898160423 > Pb 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 0.6477105834 > Pb 0.5000000000 0.5000000000 0.6477106219 > > > > Writing output data file ./Pb.save/ > NEW-OLD atomic charge density approx. for the potential > > negative rho (up, down): 4.239E-06 0.000E+00 > extrapolated charge 139.33910, renormalised to 140.00000 > > total cpu time spent up to now is 5450.5 secs > Self-consistent Calculation > iteration # 1 ecut= 350.00 Ry beta= 0.30 > Davidson diagonalization with overlap > ethr = 1.00E-06, avg # of iterations = 12.0 > > negative rho (up, down): 2.981E-06 0.000E+00 > total cpu time spent up to now is 5718.7 secs > total energy = -1399.22364359 Ry > Harris-Foulkes estimate = -1491.08426468 Ry > estimated scf accuracy < 8.73203731 Ry > > iteration # 2 ecut= 350.00 Ry beta= 0.30 > Davidson diagonalization with overlap > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Error in routine cdiaghg (95): > problems computing cholesky > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > stopping ... > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Error in routine cdiaghg (95): > problems computing cholesky > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > stopping ... > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Error in routine cdiaghg (95): > problems computing cholesky > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > > > -- > Dr. Vahid Derakhshan Maman > > Postdoctoral Research Associate > Utrecht University, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science > > Heidelberglaan 83584 CS Utrecht > > > _______________________________________________ > Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (www.max-centre.eu) > users mailing list users@lists.quantum-espresso.org > https://lists.quantum-espresso.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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