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you are correct, your issue most likely comes from your Hartree-Fock input. You are using a cutoff radius of 1.5 Ang for the truncated Coulomb potential. This is very small and might lead to inaccuracies in the electronic structure. Typically, calculations
are run with a truncation radius of 5-6 Ang. Note that the sphere with the same radius should fit in your simulation cell: you might need to increase the size of the system to fit such a large truncation radius.</div>
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In terms of performance, you are using an extremely tight EPS_PGF_ORB value. This will lead to very slow calculations. The default of 1.0E-5 is usually enough, and 1.0E-6 is already considered very accurate. On the other hand, EPS_SCHWARZ = 1.0E-6 is fairly
loose. Using 1.0E-8 might help with numerical stability. If you are going to run a larger system, you will probably need to tweak the HF%MEMORY%MAX_MEMORY value for optimal runtime.</div>
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You can also try to use the more modern ADMM basis set defined in the BASIS_ADMM_UZH data file.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 12, 2024 11:34 AM<br>
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<div>Hi all,<br>
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<div>I am trying to compare some ground state XAS and TDDFT XAS for a few systems and it was going great on other systems until I started on a relatively simple graphite cell.
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<div>I performed cell optimization and used the resulting structure of 64 C atoms for XAS calculation but i am having issues with ground state calculation of a system which would be compatible with further TDDFT,. SCF does not seem to converge and either diverges
wildly or oscillates around 0. <br>
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<div>I have included a sample input file, I have tried also with the DIIS OT, denationalization, and with a PBE functional but the issue persist. I am hoping someone might have an idea if I missed something obvious. It seems that the problem might be in the
HF part, as the convergence is slightly better if I change the HF fraction, but it ultimately always diverges.
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<div>I would be grateful f anyone has any comments on the issue I am facing and I apologize if I missed something obvious.
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<div>kind regards, Ava<br>
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