<div><br></div>Hi .. <br><br>The integrated spin density can be different from zero also if the multiplicity is 1, because it is <div>\int_\Omega (\rho_{up}(r) - \rho_{down}(r)) dr</div><div>and not </div><div><div>[\int_\Omega (\rho_{up}(r))dr] - [\int_\Omega (\rho_{down}(r))dr]<br></div><div>which instead is zero for multiplicity equal 1. </div><div><br></div><div>Difficult to guess why the optimisation does not converge with the available information. </div><div>It seems to be a magnetic system, which might be tricky to converge. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Marcella</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 9:05:31 AM UTC+1 gayathr...@gmail.com wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><p> Dear all,</p><p>I have performed a UKS calculation with <b>charge set to 0 and multiplicity =1</b> (even number of electrons in the system). I have made around 15 attempts with UKS False, smearing on, different minimizes, preconditioners and all of them failed to converge the SCF. </p><p>In one of those trials, the SCF struggled to converge and converged after many steps. I terminated the simulation forcefully and got the following in the output even for the converged SCF steps.</p><p>Integrated absolute spin density :
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Ideal and single determinant S**2
: 0.000000 29.954091<br>
</p><p>For multiplicity set to 1, the values are unrealistic indicating severe spin contamination and the results seem wrong. I have attached the input file. Can someone please help me in mitigating this issue?</p><p>I will be very thankful for your help.</p></blockquote></div>
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