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Offline jdgayles16

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« on: July 26, 2010, 09:06 »
I m having trouble converging a system at -0.3 volts, however I had no trouble converging at -0.8 volts. any ideas?

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Re: convergence
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2010, 22:06 »
Must be some peak in the transmission/bandstructure that crosses the Fermi level or something like that... Try higher temperature for this case, or go in smaller steps (not directly from -0.2 but with -0.24 -0.26 -0.28 as intermediate steps), for instance.

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Re: convergence
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 07:19 »
I m having trouble converging a system at -0.3 volts, however I had no trouble converging at -0.8 volts. any ideas?

Jacob
Hi,was the trick Anders Blom said useful? Or how do you solve this problem?

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Re: convergence
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 21:47 »
Temperature usually solves a lot of problems for me, but i went with using smaller steps because I wanted my temp to be consistent with previous runs. The Smaller steps worked =)

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Re: convergence
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2010, 13:42 »
Temperature usually solves a lot of problems for me, but i went with using smaller steps because I wanted my temp to be consistent with previous runs. The Smaller steps worked =)
Thanks for your reply.Temp is only a trick,results with different temp can compare with each other.