Convergence criterion  [SOLVED]

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amir
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Convergence criterion

Post by amir » Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:31 am

Hi.

I am trying to find the lattice parameter of ZrO2. When I use toldfe=10^-12 i have no problem, but when I use toldff=5*10^-6 or tolrff=0.2 I get this error all the time, does not matter what my value for acell is:

"The new primitive vectors rprimd (an evolving quantity)
are too large with respect to the old rprimd and the accompanying dilatmx :
this large change of unit cell parameters is not allowed by the present value of dilatmx."

this is my input file:

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ecut 40
!ecut+ 2
pawecutdg 84
!pawecutdg+ 2
ecutsm 0.5
dilatmx 1.05

acell 3*5.28 angstrom
rprim
.5 .5 0
0 .5 .5
.5 0 .5

optcell 1
ionmov  2
ntime 40
nstep 40
!toldff 1.0d-6
tolrff 0.02

#Definition of the k-point grids
ngkpt  8 8 8
nshiftk 4
shiftk  0.5 0.5 0.5  # These shifts will be the same for all grids
        0.5 0.0 0.0
        0.0 0.5 0.0
        0.0 0.0 0.5

diemac 4
chkprim 0

ntypat 2
znucl 40 8

natom 3
typat 1 2*2

xred
0 0 0
1/4 1/4 1/4
3/4 3/4 3/4



Could you please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Amir

Jordan
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Re: Convergence criterion  [SOLVED]

Post by Jordan » Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:43 pm

Increase the value of dilatmx in your input file.
Try something like 1.2
And read this

Cheers

Jordan

amir
Posts: 19
Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2014 8:44 pm

Re: Convergence criterion

Post by amir » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:15 am

Than you very much Jordan :)

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