Hi Tim,<div><br></div><div>Is it possible for you to put your input and output on this chat? I tried to change α to 0.04 but it didn't work. My initial guess is atomic rather than restart. Also, I don't think the multiplicity in your input file should be set to 1 because that means on spin electron. </div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Yike<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">在2022年4月11日星期一 UTC+1 17:58:11<timw...@hotmail.com> 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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For me, the scf did converge.</div>
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<div>Did your scf converge? I also calculated Ni(111) slab and it can converge by changing the criteria but the scf didn't converge after even 500 steps.</div>
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Thanks again! It finally converged after 64 optimization steps with all the criteria being YES.</div>
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<div>this is to say that your SCF to compute the electronic structure incl. total energy and most importantly the forces is converging. </div>
<div>Your geometry optimization loop, however, has just completed 21 iterations and is not converged as yet. For CG and BFGS all </div>
<div>criteria must be YES in order to complete your geometry optimization. However, LBFGS may be fast converging, but I am not </div>
<div>sure if they rely on the same criteria and not on the WANTED* criteria. </div>
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<div>Thanks for your suggestion! I changed the alpha value to 0.1, and the energy did become less fluctuating. However, the status in the convergence check still showed NO for all four parameters after 21 optimization steps (as shown below). Does it mean that
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<div>your alpha value is definitely too large, try 0.1 or smaller. </div>
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I'm running a geometry optimization for Ni(111) containing 288 atoms. However, the energy seems to fluctuate a lot, and the system does not tend to converge. Could someone give me some advice on what I can do in this case? My input and output files are attached
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