[CP2K-user] [CP2K:19146] Convergence of W-BCC

[Marcelo Albuquerque]

Dear all,

I'm trying to obtain the converged k-point grid (MONKHORST-PACK scheme) of 
the alpha phase of W (BCC structure).
Beforehand, I converged both the CUTOFF and REL_CUTOFF. However, when it 
comes to the K-POINT mesh, I'm getting the same Total Energy for each NxNxN 
points, where N runs from 3 to 20.

Does someone know what is going on here? I really appreciate any help to 
understand this issue.
Here are the xyz file and my cp2k input.
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# File generated with Atomsk by malbuquerque on 2023-07-22 22:14:26
W  0.00000000  0.00000000  0.00000000
W  1.60206186  1.60206186  1.60206186

&GLOBAL
  PROJECT ALPHA_W
  RUN_TYPE ENERGY
  PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM
&END GLOBAL
&FORCE_EVAL
  METHOD Quickstep
  &DFT
    BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME BASIS_MOLOPT
    POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME GTH_POTENTIALS
    &MGRID
      CUTOFF 600
      REL_CUTOFF 60
    &END MGRID
    &KPOINTS
       SCHEME MONKHORST-PACK 20 20 20
    &END KPOINTS
    &QS
      EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-12
    &END QS
    &SCF
      SCF_GUESS ATOMIC
      EPS_SCF 1.0E-8
      MAX_SCF 1
      ADDED_MOS 50
      CHOLESKY INVERSE
      &SMEAR ON
        METHOD FERMI_DIRAC
        ELECTRONIC_TEMPERATURE [K] 300
      &END SMEAR
      &DIAGONALIZATION
        ALGORITHM STANDARD
      &END DIAGONALIZATION
      &MIXING
        METHOD BROYDEN_MIXING
        ALPHA 0.4
        BETA 0.5
        NBROYDEN 8
      &END MIXING
    &END SCF
    &XC
      &XC_FUNCTIONAL PBE
      &END XC_FUNCTIONAL
      &VDW_POTENTIAL
        POTENTIAL_TYPE PAIR_POTENTIAL
        &PAIR_POTENTIAL
          TYPE DFTD3
          REFERENCE_FUNCTIONAL PBE
          PARAMETER_FILE_NAME 
/home/malbuquerque/packages/cp2k-2023.1/data/dftd3.dat
        &END PAIR_POTENTIAL
      &END VDW_POTENTIAL
    &END XC
  &END DFT
  &SUBSYS
    &KIND W
      ELEMENT W
      BASIS_SET DZVP-MOLOPT-SR-GTH-q14
      POTENTIAL GTH-PBE-q14
    &END KIND
    &CELL
      SYMMETRY CUBIC
      A     3.20412372        0.00000000        0.00000000
      B     0.00000000        3.20412372        0.00000000
      C     0.00000000        0.00000000        3.20412372
    &END CELL
    &TOPOLOGY
       COORD_FILE_FORMAT XYZ
       COORD_FILE_NAME alpha_bcc_W_cl2.xyz
       CONN_FILE_FORMAT OFF
    &END TOPOLOGY
  &END SUBSYS
  &PRINT
    &TOTAL_NUMBERS  ON
    &END TOTAL_NUMBERS
  &END PRINT
&END FORCE_EVAL


Best regards,
Marcelo Albuquerque

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