[gpaw-users] beef error

[Marcin Dulak]

Hi,

the calculation scf does not converge.
I believe this is a common problem with the BEFF-vdw functional for molecules,
see http://listserv.fysik.dtu.dk/pipermail/gpaw-users/2014-May/002686.html
I would try to set width=0.1 eV and check you don't get fractional occupancies in the solution.
Manuel: how do you converge molecules with BEEF-vdw?

Best regards,

Marcin
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From: Logi Arnarson [logi at au.dk]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:24 AM
To: gpaw-users at listserv.fysik.dtu.dk
Subject: beef error

Dear GPAW Users,

I am trying to estimate the error of a formation energy calculation using the the BEEF-vdw functional. The calculation is for a Vanadia Oxide species on a surface (VO3H/TiO2) where the VO3H is calculated with respect to V2O5(b) and H2O(g).
In the script (see script.txt) I therefore read the respective gpw files in order to get the potential energies. Then I get KohnShamConvergenceError for the H2O calculation (see error.txt). I have done analogous beef calculation for a VO3 species where instead of having H2O(g) as the reference but O2(g) which doesn't  give rise to an error. The calculations for H2O(g) and O2(g) are done in exactly the same way.

Is there someone out there who might know how to fix this?

Regards,
Logi

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Logi Arnarson
PhD Student
iNANO, AArhus University




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