Re: [SIESTA-L] Converging a cluster of Ni Atoms

2008-04-14 Thread Eduardo Anglada
Hi, Why are you using the split gauss option? Have you checked the resulting gaussians? Do they decay to zero? Regarding the convergence, if the Harris Energy is converged, you could try to stop the calculation and restart it (reading the coordinates and density matrix). It many

Re: [SIESTA-L] Converging a cluster of Ni Atoms

2008-04-13 Thread Oleksandr Voznyy
Did you try to converge the bulk Ni? Your MixingWeight is quite small, it looks to me that you have problems with your k-gird. If k-grid is dense enough, the only thing to try is to increase the electronic temperature or use MP mixing scheme. I think DZ is not the best choice, try DZP.