<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Hongyang, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">your mixing values are too optimistic for your system, e.g. ALPHA is too large. </div><div class="">Anyhow, I would suggest to switch to OT. However, you have to be aware that </div><div class="">irrespective of all that what you are attempting is a seriously expensive </div><div class="">calculations that potentially would entail a rather large number of geometry </div><div class="">optimization steps. Hence, I would rather start with <a href="http://s.th" class="">s.th</a>. smaller first … </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best, </div><div class="">Thomas</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 14.11.2021 um 23:19 schrieb ma455...@<a href="http://gmail.com" class="">gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ma455173220@gmail.com" class="">ma455173220@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm a newbie in using cp2k. When I did a geometry optimization, I found that the first ionic step took 128 steps but still didn't converge at all. However, when it came to the second inoic step, the convergence was significantly faster (converged within 15 cycles). I'm wondering what causes this issue and are there any ways to improve the convergence behavior of the first ionic step?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks & Regards,</div><div class="">Hongyang </div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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