Hi, Matthias Krack<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for your advice. </div><div>In this calculation I used a supercell of 320 atoms. I suspect this also caused the convergence rate to be too slow. When performing CELL_OPT in CP2K, is it necessary to expand the cell first? </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Rui Zou<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">在2020年12月25日星期五 UTC+8 下午7:02:58<Matthias Krack> 写道:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi Rui Zou<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There are two issues which might hamper the convergence process of your cell_opt run:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB">The SCF convergence threshold value is with 5.0E-6 quite large which will cause a low accuracy of the calculated forces. Noisy
forces will in turn “confuse” the optimizer.<u></u><u></u></span></li><li style="margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB">The applied constraints KEEP_ANGLES and KEEP_SYMMETRY might prevent the optimiser from finding an energetically lower lying structure
with less symmetry indicated by residual forces.<u></u><u></u></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">HTH<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Matthias<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Hi everyone!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">I am a new user of CP2K. I want to use CP2K to optimize the cell. However, the convergence of this process is too slow. Can you help me check if there is a problem with my input file? Thank you so much!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">Rui Zou<u></u><u></u></p>
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