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Dear Valerie, <br>
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you may try a smaller EPS_DEFAULT value like 1.0E-12 or even
1.0E-14. You may also switch off the smearing, if your systems shows
a decent band gap. I would guess a cutoff of about 400 Ry should be
sufficiently accurate.<br>
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Matthias<br>
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<div>On 24/03/15 17:40, Valérie wrote:<br>
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I would like to run a geometry optimization of a single molecule
with Quickstep but got stuck at the first step; i.e. get
meaningful values of cutoff and relative cutoffs. <br>
I followed this tutorial:
<a href="http://www.cp2k.org/howto:converging_cutoff" target="_blank">http://www.cp2k.org/howto:<wbr>converging_cutoff</a> but the total energy
does not converge to great accuracy with my system:<br>
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# Grid cutoff vs total energy<br>
# REL_CUTOFF = 100<br>
# Cutoff (Ry) | Total Energy (Ha) | NG on grid 1 | NG on grid 2
| NG on grid 3 | NG on grid 4<br>
50.00 -68.6591152269 51340 490 0 0<br>
100.00 -71.4960226714 49235 2499 96 0<br>
150.00 -71.3943596348 46461 4879 490 0<br>
200.00 -71.4042102566 44831 6209 790 0<br>
250.00 -71.4043241216 42771 7117 1846 96<br>
300.00 -71.4043468150 41166 8069 2499 96<br>
350.00 -71.4042673160 38450 10341 2847 192<br>
400.00 -71.4043263577 36970 10901 3671 288<br>
450.00 -71.4043454189 35016 11445 4879 490<br>
500.00 -71.4043448309 34404 11749 5187 490<br>
550.00 -71.4043354081 33007 11952 6081 790<br>
600.00 -71.4043430530 32450 12381 6209 790<br>
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I was wondering if there was something I could try to fix this
or should I carry on with Cutoff = 400?<br>
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Many thanks<br>
Valerie<br>
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