[gpaw-users] Convergence of eigenstate and density

Jun Yan juya at fysik.dtu.dk
Sat Apr 30 13:13:16 CEST 2011


Well, I dont quite understand your question.
I use
                convergence={
                 'density': 1.0e-6,
                 'eigenstates': 1.0e-4,
                 'bands': nband}

and nband = 260 while 80 occupied bands are included.

Jun

Jess Wellendorff wrote:
> ok, but are you sure you are actually converging the unoccupied states? 
> (perhaps a stupid question)
>
> Jess
>
> Den 30-04-2011 12:26, Jun Yan skrev:
>   
>> Hi, Jess,
>>
>>      I did that, its just I am not sure whether I can lower the
>> convergence criteria for eigenstate to as low as 1e-5. It would be much
>> better if the occupied states are converged with high criteria and
>> unoccupied ones can choose low criteria.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Jun
>>
>> Jess Wellendorff wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi jun,
>>>
>>> I do not know about the interpretation of the convergence for
>>> eigenstates vs. density you observe, but I do know that it is easy to
>>> change the convergence criteria:
>>> ********
>>> conv = {'eigenstates':1.e-5, 'density':1.e-4, 'energy':1.e-4}
>>> calc = GPAW(....., convergence=conv, .......)
>>> ********
>>> where any of the arguments to 'convergence' may be left out (leaving
>>> it to default value).
>>> It appears to me that your calculation has definately converged in
>>> terms of electronic structure, but for some reason this happens for a
>>> changes in the eigenstates larger than the default criterion for
>>> convergence.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Jess W.
>>>
>>> Den 30-04-2011 11:31, Jun Yan skrev:
>>>       
>>>> Hi, developers,
>>>>
>>>>        What does it mean if the density is converged while the eigenstate
>>>> can't converge, as shown in the following ?  The default convergence
>>>> criterion is   'density': 1.0e-4, 'eigenstates': 1.0e-9. Can I change
>>>> the convergence of eigenstate to 1e-4 ? The system here is Al on Si
>>>> surface, with 80 occupied and 180 unoccupied bands using rmm-dis
>>>> eigensolver. The mixing is mixer=Mixer(0.05, 5, weight=100.0) and dzp
>>>> basis is used  for initialization of orbitals. It takes around 40 scf
>>>> steps to converge using the default criterion for eigensolver CG
>>>> although takes much longer time. This is to test whether rmmdis is able
>>>> to get reasonable unoccupied bands compared to CG, but the scf step can
>>>> never converge...
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> Jun
>>>>
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