<div><div dir="auto"><div>>I find that when I was calculating a large system, in this example,
744 atoms, the scf convergence always failed, no matter how I tried
with cutoff, minimizer ...</div><div>>However, when I use a smaller system (same elements but fewer atoms), the convergence is fine.<br /><br />Such thing is often a sign of (near) linear dependence in the basis set, which is very common in large systems. Everything converges perfectly fine, than you extend your molecular cluster, or increase supercell, and it suddenly crumbles. If reducing the system is not an option, there are a few other ways to proceed:<br />1) try less diffuse basis set — probably not an option as you are using SR variant already;<br />2) try smaller basis set — for example, there is SZV-MOLOPT-SR-GTH, or try something from a different basis set family;<br />3) filter basis set by eigenvalues of overlap matrix — I'm not exactly sure how does it work in CP2K, but changing SCF/<span><span>EPS_EIGVAL</span></span><em><span><span></span></span></em> might help. Here is a documentation for a similar feature in ORCA: https://www.faccts.de/docs/orca/6.1/manual/contents/essentialelements/basisset.html#sec-essentialelements-lindep</div><br /><br /><br />среда, 13 августа 2025 г. в 10:43:03 UTC+3, Que Zhu: <br /></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">sorry,I can not open the geom.cell file.Can you find me the cif file</div></div><br /></blockquote><div><br />FWIW, it's just XYZ file without number of atoms. It's @INCLUDE'd in NiO-perovskite.inp <span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: monospace;"></span></span>in COORD section.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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