[CP2K-user] [CP2K:13211] CELL Optimization - Energy not decreasing

Krack Matthias (PSI) matthi... at psi.ch
Thu Apr 30 18:19:17 UTC 2020


Dear Jan

You are right, the PW92 has been buggy and gave different numbers compared to the libxc version XC_LDA_C_PW which you could use alternatively. After Jürg’s fix for PW92, the stress tensor for your system looks fine now within the numerical tolerances, though the debug run might still end with an error message, since the default test criterion of 1.0E-5 for sum of the deviations for all tensor elements is quite tight.

Best

Matthias

Von: cp... at googlegroups.com <cp... at googlegroups.com> Im Auftrag von Jan Elsner
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Betreff: Re: [CP2K:13211] CELL Optimization - Energy not decreasing

Dear Juerg,

Ok, cheers for the advice.

Best wishes,

Jan

On Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 5:24:26 PM UTC+1, jgh wrote:
Hi

yes, I cam to the same conclusion. The problem seems to be
the value for rs where the different formulas have to be switched.
Changing at line 117 in xc_perdew_wang.fypp the value from
1.0 to 0.5 seems to solve most problems.

In addition, you might also want to use a reference cell (see CELL_REF)
when optimizing cells.

I will update the Trunk version of CP2K soon.

regards

Juerg Hutter
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Subject: Re: [CP2K:13207] CELL Optimization - Energy not decreasing

Dear all,

I thought I should post an update on this.

It seems that there is a problem with using PW92 as the local correlation part of XC functional. When I use VWN instead, the analytical and numerical forces are equal. I attach input and output files for DEBUG runs on a single H20 molecule using optPBE in combination with PW92 and VWN. In the case of PW92, there is a mismatch between analytical and numerical forces.

I note that the same applies for the some of the other functionals listed here: https://github.com/cp2k/cp2k/tree/master/data/xc_section (at least, I can confirm that optB88 and C09 also give a mismatch between numerical and analytical forces using the settings listed here).

Best wishes,

Jan




On Friday, April 24, 2020 at 10:43:00 AM UTC+1, Jan Elsner wrote:
Dear Juerg,

Many thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately, decreasing EPS_SCF (all the way to 1.0E-10) does not solve the problem.

I have done a DEBUG run which results in the following error (see end of attached file debug.out): 'Abort: A mismatch between the analytical and the numerical stress tensor has been detected. Check the implementation of the stress tensor'. I'm not entirely sure how I should proceed from here / what the problem is exactly - any insight would be very much appreciated.

If it helps shed some light on the problem, I also attach a figure showing Total Energy, RMS Gradient and Cell Volume as a function of optimization step (plotted from the original cell.out file I sent). The optimiser seems to overshoot the minimum energy configuration.

One other question which comes to mind is whether it's ok to use GTH-PBE or GTH-PADE pseudopotentials with optPBE-vdW?

Best wishes,

Jan





On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:20:34 AM UTC+1, jgh wrote:Hi

I don't know how well a setup as this is tested. However, from
your output I would guess the problem could be related to your
SCF convergence. With the methods you are using you have to set
the convergence criteria much tighter in order to get converged
energy and forces. I would suggest to use at least 1.E-8.

The ultimate test would be to do a DEBUG run in order to verify
forces and stress tensor for the setting of options.

regards

Juerg Hutter
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Date: 04/18/2020 08:33PM
Subject: [CP2K:13145] CELL Optimization - Energy not decreasing

Dear all,

I am trying to run a Cell Optimisation on a periodic molecular crystal (beta-resorcinol: C6H6O2, 4 molecules in unit cell) using K-points and BFGS as optimiser. I am using the vdW-DF-optPBE functional (https://github.com/cp2k/cp2k/commit/74ef05b96a46523a0daf7da04e75804420b5cd5e). After 83 optimisation steps, my system does converge to the required MOTION thresholds, however from step 7 onwards the total energy increases at every step i.e.:

--------  Informations at step =     7 ------------
  Optimization Method        =                 BFGS
  Total Energy               =      -280.1489665596
  Internal Pressure [bar]    =     -2667.4573178334
  Real energy change         =         0.0001037473
  Predicted change in energy =        -0.0001063956
  Scaling factor             =         0.0000000000
  Step size                  =         0.0124910496
  Trust radius               =         0.4724315332
  Decrease in energy         =                   NO
  Used time                  =               60.978

  Convergence check :
  Max. step size             =         0.0124910496
  Conv. limit for step size  =         0.0010000000
  Convergence in step size   =                   NO
  RMS step size              =         0.0029192108
  Conv. limit for RMS step   =         0.0010000000
  Convergence in RMS step    =                   NO
  Max. gradient              =         0.0034738629
  Conv. limit for gradients  =         0.0001000000
  Conv. for gradients        =                   NO
  RMS gradient               =         0.0006857738
  Conv. limit for RMS grad.  =         0.0001000000
  Conv. for gradients        =                   NO
  Pressure Deviation [bar]   =     -2668.4705678334
  Pressure Tolerance [bar]   =       200.0000000000
  Conv. for  PRESSURE        =                   NO
 ---------------------------------------------------

The resulting cell-optimised structure is therefore not a minimum in energy. I've attached the input and output files. Some points which may (or may not) be relevant:
I did not encounter this problem when using a different functional (PBE + D3 instead of optPBE-vdW as used here), but otherwise identical settings.
I encountered the same issue (energy increasing at every step) using CUTOFF/REL_CUTOFF = 800/60
I initially tried to converge CUTOFF and REL_CUTOFF as in the tutorial (
https://www.cp2k.org/howto:converging_cutoff), however my single point calculations did not converge quite as nicely as in the tutorial - instead oscillating with an amplitude of order ~ e-4 Ha (I've attached a figure showing this). This is why I use such large CUTOFF/REL_CUTOFF values. I note that this was also the case when I ran PBE + D3 calculations, however in the latter case my cell optimisation did work.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,

Jan



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