Re: [SIESTA-L] Regarding SCF convergence issue during optimization

2024-04-24 Por tôpico Daniel Bennett
rds, Daniel Bennett From: siesta-l-requ...@uam.es on behalf of Andrei Postnikov Sent: 23 April 2024 07:09 To: Siesta-l Cc: deb.jyotirmo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [SIESTA-L] Regarding SCF convergence issue during optimization Hi, you provide too few information. Of course just i

Re: [SIESTA-L] Regarding SCF convergence issue during optimization

2024-04-23 Por tôpico Andrei Postnikov
Hi, you provide too few information. Of course just increasing the number of iterations won't bring you further if there is no convergence. General advises might be as follows: - Check that you are using diagonalisation and NOT order-N scheme before you fix the things and "know what you are

[SIESTA-L] Regarding SCF convergence issue during optimization

2024-04-19 Por tôpico Jyotirmoy Deb
Dear Sir/Madam, I want to optimize a heterostructure consisting of 235 atoms. But I am facing an error every time "SCF did not converge in the maximum number of steps". I have gradually increased the "MaxSCFIterations" however, I have not been able to solve this issue. Please help me in this