Dear CP2K users,<div>   I did a convergence test for silica(SiO2) using all-electron calculation, and I got a quiet high converged cutoff (~1400 Ry) using GAPW method. The basis used are 6-31G* in EMSL_BASIS_SETS and pcseg-2 of ADMM. Could you please take a look at it and offer me suggestions to lower the cutoff? I have append ouput files and posted the input,</div><div>   </div><div>Greetings,</div><div>Yongnian, Qi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>@SET project  silica<br>@SET lib /home/yunai/M/E/SW/abInitio/cp2k/data/<br>&FORCE_EVAL<br>  METHOD Quickstep<br>  &DFT<br>    BASIS_SET_FILE_NAME  ${lib}EMSL_BASIS_SETS<br>    POTENTIAL_FILE_NAME  ${lib}POTENTIAL<br>    &POISSON<br>      PERIODIC XYZ<br>    &END POISSON<br>    &MGRID<br>      CUTOFF 800<br>      REL_CUTOFF 70<br>      NGRIDS 4<br>    &END MGRID<br>    &QS<br>      METHOD GAPW<br>      EPS_DEFAULT 1.0E-10<br>      EXTRAPOLATION ASPC<br>      EXTRAPOLATION_ORDER 3<br>    &END QS<br>    &SCF<br>      SCF_GUESS ATOMIC #ATOMIC<br>      EPS_SCF 1.0E-6<br>      MAX_SCF 100<br>      &SMEAR ON<br>        METHOD FERMI_DIRAC<br>        ELECTRONIC_TEMPERATURE [K] 300<br>      &END SMEAR<br>      ADDED_MOS 100<br>      &DIAGONALIZATION ON<br>        ALGORITHM STANDARD<br>      &END DIAGONALIZATION<br>      &MIXING ON<br>        METHOD BROYDEN_MIXING<br>        ALPHA 0.4<br>        # BETA 0.5<br>        NBROYDEN 8<br>      &END MIXING<br>    &END SCF<br><br>    &XC<br>      &XC_FUNCTIONAL BLYP<br>      &END XC_FUNCTIONAL<br>    &END XC<br>  &END DFT<br>  &SUBSYS<br>    &KIND Si<br>      ELEMENT    Si<br>      BASIS_SET 6-31G**<br>      POTENTIAL ALL<br>    &END KIND<br>    &KIND O<br>      ELEMENT    O<br>      BASIS_SET 6-31G**<br>      POTENTIAL ALL<br>    &END KIND<br>    &CELL<br>      SYMMETRY CUBIC<br>      A 9.7455633333 0.0 0.0<br>      B 0.0 9.7455633333 0.0<br>      C 0.0 0.0 9.7455633333<br>      PERIODIC XYZ<br>    &END CELL<br>    &COORD<br>      O         2.7623936770        1.1137089509        1.6066876713<br>      O         0.7356406653        2.1620228603        3.0361303865<br>     Si         1.5304329216        2.1663388392        1.6201749328<br>      O         2.1611027748        3.6247590288        1.3778772374<br>      O         0.4771825457        1.8728089580        0.4439819695<br>     Si         3.1116787748        4.7328010726        2.0595450356<br>      O         3.3398644261        4.4458724425        3.6352291657<br>      O         0.1270867544        3.0550850906        5.4393291440<br>      O         3.9419645493        3.7984593035        6.0724237956<br>      O         1.8125652629        1.1555188032        6.0587535735<br>     Si         4.5749371264        4.0562467406        4.6150432346<br>      O         4.2209518137        0.2024218305        5.5072125827<br>      O         1.7606021213        3.4293517879        7.4747736997<br>      O        -0.2393841186        1.7614657701        7.6464234290<br>     Si         0.8870879147        2.3400853460        6.6579592354<br>     Si         3.0276193444        4.4076720098        7.2613483139<br>      O         3.8937667585        4.4469244314        8.6068027497<br>      O         2.3541934146        6.1404600110        1.8909536216<br>      O        -0.1510841561        6.9275503716        2.6199882599<br>     Si         1.0903689604        7.0981208036        1.6067500379<br>      O         1.6183890189        8.6032946232        1.8211843582<br>      O         0.5527082293        6.8724776780        0.0998574069<br>     Si         3.0746197814        9.2866247259        1.7850569966<br>      O         3.9093635388        8.9469248092        3.1131160577<br>      O         4.5738417203        4.7157916949        1.3637765344<br>      O         3.9413455061        8.7662272645        0.5161904160<br>      O         0.7909354039        6.2243201162        4.9819467535<br>      O         2.2150485098        8.2938588799        5.8645698984<br>     Si         1.4534705265        6.9268570999        6.2712148148<br>      O         2.5449034946        5.9204147174        6.9208632358<br>      O         0.2612757810        7.2891739574        7.2994708402<br>     Si         4.4742182203        9.4566496378        8.8987446776<br>      O         3.2043255332        9.6942893869        7.9237510834<br>     Si         2.8563965372        9.7060931753        6.3395469239<br>      O         6.2715397969        1.9820633297        1.7619455845<br>     Si         6.3716860047        1.9672415320        0.1580264828<br>      O         6.2313329977        0.3313026593        3.7874773722<br>     Si         9.3906054025        2.9813537251        3.9078255520<br>      O         5.3214660859        2.7416025592        4.0803483450<br>      O         7.9461117570        2.2832099838        3.7987331647<br>     Si         6.4602662916        1.8680222375        3.3520889825<br>      O         9.2536741476        4.5149786180        3.4110977981<br>     Si         9.3149559538        1.1133731944        9.1066267486<br>      O         6.2481184898        3.5067554443        9.4012946979<br>     Si         5.1441421200        4.6839056498        9.5929570832<br>      O         5.1504752948        1.1351640314        9.2485730410<br>      O         7.7569502782        1.2663799887        9.4786927189<br>     Si         6.4512813548        6.5189274958        5.2237888900<br>     Si         9.3115993328        6.0463065346        3.9375335741<br>      O         5.6803262812        5.2221590949        4.6856986549<br>     Si         4.9840432668        9.1903545424        4.2924078131<br>      O         5.5938407987        7.8014279538        4.8006801089<br>      O         7.9330633460        6.5399536968        4.5989225537<br>      O         7.9118825374        7.5476872460        8.8478692562<br>     Si         6.4613240569        7.1534197148        8.2858208905<br>     Si         9.4995036873        7.7563524417        8.7527939165<br>      O         5.8289959156        6.1070268707        9.3234506615<br>      O         5.5378138826        8.4757003887        8.1819820998<br>      O         6.5661104574        6.4615582121        6.8329636201<br>      O         9.7886737380        9.3189204480        9.0335420807<br>    &END COORD<br>  &END SUBSYS<br>&END FORCE_EVAL<br>&GLOBAL<br>  PROJECT silica<br>  RUN_TYPE ENERGY<br>  PRINT_LEVEL MEDIUM<br>&END GLOBAL<br><img alt="cutoff.png" data-iml="151319" width="534px" height="401px" src="cid:fb7b00f9-dd13-4286-bd22-7a3a2aaf1141"><br></div>

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