I've been looking at a couple of systems that are atomically pretty dense. For example, alpha boron and diamond.<div><br></div><div>For these systems, when I increase the supercell size too large, the energy in the SCF loop explodes to ridiculous values. For example, I am calculating diamond with 54 atom and 128 atom supercells, truncated PBE0 with 2A cutoff. </div><div><br></div><div>The 54 atom case converges with no real issues. In that case I have used OT, and against common wisdom for really accurate results I screen on the initial density matrix with scf_guess atomic. The convergence seems robust to that and the aggressive (1e-6) integral screening.</div><div><br></div><div>Then, I move to 128 atom supercells, and I am unable to converge as the energies diverge rapidly after a few SCF steps. For this case, I have stopped screening on the initial density matrix. I was able to narrow the issue down to the auxiliary basis sets used for C. I tried cFIT3, pFIT3, cpFIT3, and FIT3, which all result in the rapid divergence of the energy. Example:</div><div><p><br></p>
<p> 1 OT CG 0.15E+00 141.5 0.01764397 -673.6622732538 -6.74E+02</p>
<p> 2 OT LS 0.60E+00 35.1 -806.4853195301</p>
<p> 3 OT CG 0.60E+00 38.5 12.03779293 -4186.8334161380 -3.51E+03</p>
<p> 4 OT LS 0.30E+00 33.7 -8657.0632214970</p></div><div><br></div><div>Since these all failed, but the primary basis is prohibitively large, I tried setting BASIS_SET AUX_FIT SZV-MOLOPT-SR-GTH, and this remedies the problem, and the calculation finishes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>My questions then are four-fold.</div><div>(1) Is this behavior for dense systems like diamond expected? I have not had this issue with any other system besides alpha boron.</div><div>(2) Is this un-fixable? i.e. we can't use the FIT basis sets for such systems?</div><div>(3) Would someone have another idea for why this is the case? i.e. maybe FIT basis sets can still be used if some other setting was changed. </div><div>and finally (4) Does anyone see an issue with proceeding with using the SZV basis as the auxiliary basis?</div><div><br></div><div>-Nick</div><div><br></div>
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