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QuantumATK => General Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Dipankar Saha on November 25, 2015, 20:25
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WARNING :-
The computed TB09 meta-GGA exchange-correlation potential
diverged in 0.03 % of the simulation volume, and was
truncated to be in the range [-10.0000, 10.0000] Hartree
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What does it signify ??
Thanks in advance..... :)
Best_
Dipankar
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It signifies a very minor numerical inaccuracy in evaluating the TB09 exchange potential in some particular and very small region of the simulation cell. No need to worry. This can happen in regions of small density/high density gradients, which is usually in vacuum regions. But again, 0.03% does not signify a real problem, so just keep going :)
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Thanks a lot for the reply...!! :)
Regards_
Dipankar
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So, you have vacuum in the cell... In general, it will not work to determine "c" self-consistently then; instead, you will need to fix "c", and perhaps fit its value based on a reference band gap or whatever.
The warning comes from the fact that one term in MGGA diverges if the density (or rather, it's gradient) goes to zero. So while 0.03% is not a lot, it's actually more complicated than that. Note that it says the potential "diverged in 0.03 % of the simulation volume" - yes, in a small volume, but it DIVERGED! So the potential now is infinite (or, 10 H which we set it to) somewhere in space where it probably should be zero, or 1 eV, or some other value. Thus it may still cause problems.
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Okay...I understand..../ Thank you Anders for the reply...!!