[CP2K-user] [CP2K:12372] SCF Convergence Failure

Thomas Kühne tku... at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 19:02:03 UTC 2019


Dear Pavlo, 

try to reduce MIXING at DFT/SCF and potentially also the mixing scheme. 
BTW, EPS_SCF 1.0E-8, which corresponds to the maximum norm within 
\Delta P when using diagonalization, is very tight. 

Best, 
Thomas

> Am 16.10.2019 um 20:22 schrieb Pavlo Kostetskyy <koste... at gmail.com>:
> 
> Dear Colleagues, 
> 
> I am looking to converge a geometry optimization for Ni-exchanged zeolite system. The unit cell has been optimized without issues. Below is the input and relevant output. All following SCF steps only oscillate between positive and negative energies  
> 
> Thank you in advance for any input!
> -Pavlo
> 
> &GLOBAL
>   PROJECT AFI
>   RUN_TYPE GEO_OPT
>   PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
> &END GLOBAL
> &FORCE_EVAL
>   METHOD QS
>   &DFT
>     BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME GTH_BASIS_SETS
>     POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME POTENTIAL
>     CHARGE 0
>     MULTIPLICITY 1
>       &MGRID
>       CUTOFF 500
>       REL_CUTOFF 60
>       NGRIDS 4
>     &END MGRID
>     &QS
>        EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-14
>        MAP_CONSISTENT
>     &END QS
>   &SCF
>      SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
>      EPS_SCF 1.0E-8
>      MAX_SCF 500
>      ADDED_MOS  200
>      CHOLESKY INVERSE
>         &SMEAR  ON
>          METHOD FERMI_DIRAC
>          ELECTRONIC_TEMPERATURE [K] 300
>         &END SMEAR
>      &DIAGONALIZATION
>           ALGORITHM STANDARD
>      &END DIAGONALIZATION
>   &END SCF
>   &XC
>       &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>       &PBE
>       PARAMETRIZATION ORIG
>       &END PBE
>       &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
>       &VDW_POTENTIAL
>          DISPERSION_FUNCTIONAL PAIR_POTENTIAL
>          &PAIR_POTENTIAL
>            TYPE DFTD3
>             REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE
>             CALCULATE_C9_TERM .TRUE.
>             PARAMETER_FILE_NAME dftd3.dat
>             R_CUTOFF 15.0
>             VERBOSE_OUTPUT .TRUE.
>          &END PAIR_POTENTIAL
>       &END vdw_POTENTIAL
>     &END XC
>    &POISSON
>       POISSON_SOLVER PERIODIC 
>     &END POISSON 
>   &END DFT
>   &SUBSYS
>        &CELL
>  A      14.05700000    0.00000000    0.00000000
>  B     -7.02874500   12.17414345    0.00000000
>  C      0.00000000    0.00000000   17.46000000
>  PERIODIC XYZ
>        &END CELL
>     &TOPOLOGY
>       COORD_FILE_NAME afi_supercell_2Al_anti_higherer.xyz
>       COORDINATE XYZ
>     &END TOPOLOGY
>    &KIND Al
>     ELEMENT   Al
>     BASIS_SET TZVP-GTH
>     POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q3
>    &END KIND
>    &KIND Si
>     ELEMENT   Si
>     BASIS_SET TZVP-GTH
>     POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q4
>    &END KIND
>    &KIND O
>     ELEMENT   O
>     BASIS_SET TZVP-GTH
>     POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q6
>    &END KIND
>    &KIND Ni
>     ELEMENT   Ni
>     BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH-q18
>     POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q18
>    &END KIND
> &END SUBSYS
> &END FORCE_EVAL
> &MOTION
>   &GEO_OPT
>     MAX_FORCE 0.0004
>     MAX_ITER 2000
>     OPTIMIZER BFGS
>     TYPE MINIMIZATION
>   &END GEO_OPT
> &END MOTION
> 
> ***********************************************************
> 
>  SCF WAVEFUNCTION OPTIMIZATION
> 
>   Step     Update method      Time    Convergence         Total energy    Change
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  784.0000000000
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      1 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    2.1     8.22481733     -1901.7313217467 -1.90E+03
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  784.0000000000
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      2 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    3.0     7.21038392     -1900.7645680671  9.67E-01
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  784.0000000000
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      3 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    2.9     5.21542654     -1899.9828419152  7.82E-01
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  784.0000000000
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      4 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    2.9   402.76710057     -1895.0291997541  4.95E+00
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  783.9999999999
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      5 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    3.0  1907.73544022     -1877.8977759403  1.71E+01
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  783.9999999999
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999995        0.0000000005
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000005
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000005
> 
>      6 P_Mix/Diag. 0.40E+00    3.7  2931.12581846     -1401.4996955435  4.76E+02
> 
>   Trace(PS):                                  784.0000000000
>   Electronic density on regular grids:       -783.9999999994        0.0000000006
>   Core density on regular grids:              784.0000000000       -0.0000000000
>   Total charge density on r-space grids:        0.0000000006
>   Total charge density g-space grids:           0.0000000006
> 
> 
> 
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Dynamics of Condensed Matter
Chair of Theoretical Chemistry
University of Paderborn
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