[DFTB-Plus-User] SCC is NOT converged, maximal SCC iterations exceeded

Faruq, Muhammad MAF2MPO at bolton.ac.uk
Mon Dec 14 17:58:14 CET 2015


Dear All
I have been tried several  ways to changing input file for geometry optimisation of Cu5Si_160 alloy   to taken suggestions from DFTB forum  but couldn't a success. If anybody help me to sort this out, I would be grateful.  Thanks in advance. Here is attached the input file. 

WARNING!
-> SCC is NOT converged, maximal SCC iterations exceeded

 Maximal force component:            0.561121E-01
Maximal Lattice force component:    0.114640E+02 au
>> Charges saved for restart in charges.bin
Muhammad Faruq

Geometry = GenFormat {
<<< Cu5Si_160.gen
}

Driver = ConjugateGradient {
# MovedAtoms =  "1:-1"        # Move all atoms in the system
  MaxSteps = 1000
  ConvergentForcesOnly = No 
  OutputPrefix = "geo.out"
  latticeOpt = Yes
  Isotropic  = Yes
}

Hamiltonian = DFTB {
  SCC = Yes
# SCCTolerance = 0.100000E-04
# EwaldParameter = 0.1
# MaxSCCIterations  =1000
  MaxAngularMomentum = {
   Cu = "d"
    Si = "d"
  }

  Eigensolver = DivideAndConquer{
}

  SlaterKosterFiles = Type2FileNames {
    Prefix = "/home/maf2mpo/FAST_cal_Others/DFTB+/sk/matsci-0-3/"
    Separator = "-"
    Suffix = ".skf"
  }

  KPointsAndWeights = {
    0  0  0  1
  }

  Mixer = Broyden {
    MixingParameter = 0.2
  }
  ReadInitialCharges  = No
  SpinPolarisation = {}
  Charge  = 0
  OldSKInterpolation = No
  Dispersion  = {}
}

Options = {
  WriteResultsTag = Yes
  WriteDetailedOut = Yes
  WriteBandOut = Yes
}

And input file ..............
160 F
Cu Si 
1   1   1.39267881900e-002   2.73962782063e-002   3.33761688245e-002
2   1   2.53167468728e-001   4.67568141286e-001   2.93884078422e-001
3   1   4.49789511386e-001   2.60228398458e-001   2.18253049559e-001
4   1   2.56264251055e-001   2.92925350949e-001   4.04078359845e-001
5   1   3.68763531196e-001   1.34059152472e-001   8.38443497346e-002
6   2   4.12544497344e-001   3.78633744004e-001   3.37564997023e-001
7   1   1.12568396108e-001   1.28515653010e-001   3.75860262701e-001
8   1   1.06990639457e-001   4.04773910821e-001   1.75423833818e-001
9   1   9.94441821943e-001   1.10440084172e-001   2.15799169786e-001
10   1   2.12065684244e-001   4.66797832267e-001   4.92184102725e-001
11   1   4.60324605079e-001   3.06166097487e-001   2.62813377343e-002
12   1   2.88731677011e-001   1.53193275503e-001   2.68572097010e-001
13   1   1.71589957938e-001   2.45050756979e-002   1.73898358638e-001
14   1   4.33865867012e-001   1.98926253247e-001   4.07733641636e-001
15   1   7.95145863700e-002   3.77959838407e-001   3.72035427117e-001
16   1   2.72695133962e-001   3.01868590647e-001   1.32297491512e-001
17   1   1.17126309766e-001   1.91317905344e-001   7.76479403253e-002
18   1   4.01593625104e-001   4.51154410516e-001   1.60283536561e-001
19   2   3.58599543586e-001   3.51950034143e-002   4.00226611478e-001
20   2   1.26508923455e-001   2.47096748049e-001   2.50312878181e-001
21   1   4.95216415855e-001   2.29302134901e-003   5.61212698632e-003
22   1   7.64532451813e-001   4.29388801447e-001   2.74341497188e-001
23   1   9.39511398048e-001   3.02184009903e-001   2.15211959548e-001
24   1   7.46128472494e-001   2.77326180826e-001   4.09088156428e-001
25   1   8.79963988933e-001   1.79212554932e-001   6.68929950112e-002
26   2   8.97562590802e-001   3.66629003031e-001   3.83700550766e-001
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0.0   0.0   0.0
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0.0000000000e+000  1.2448000000e+001  0.0000000000e+000
0.0000000000e+000  0.0000000000e+000  1.2448000000e+001



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