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[Anglade Pierre-Matthieu <anglade@gmail.com>]

Hi Matthieu,

Could it be related to the default value of nline which is sometime a
bit too small for large systems ? Have you tried a larger value for
nline in the case with removed symmetry operations ? If so, is the
behavior similar ?

regards

PMA

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Matteo Giantomassi
<Matteo.Giantomassi@uclouvain.be> wrote:
>  Hello abinists,
>>
>> I have come upon a strange behavior in abinit (not the first, of course)
>> and
>> was wondering if anyone had heard of it or an explanation (v5.6 on opteron
>> 64 bit RHEL, g95 compiled, sequential).
>>
>> In converging a ground state for graphene (what else), I need to use only
>> symmorphic symmetry operations. The strange behavior is that, without the
>> non-symmorphic symmetry operations, abinit does not converge the
>> wavefunctions below 1.e-13 or so (even after 200 steps), and the
>> eigenvalues
>> are not converged below mHa accuracy. With all the symops the convergence
>> down to tolwfr 1.e-20 is effortless. Why the difference? Numerical noise
>> is
>> one possibility, but plenty of symops are left in the calculation...
>>
>  Hi, Matthieu
>
>  I've never encountered such a kind of problem but
>  it might be related to a partial fulfillment of the symmetry properties
>  of the density and of the generated potentials.
>  Do you have the same number of k-points in the IBZ when non-symmorphic
>  operations are removed?
>
>  Just for curiosity: are you pruning non-symmorphic ops because you want to
>  generate a KSS file for GW calculations with abinit?
>  In this case please note that symmorphi=0 is not mandatory anymore
>  as the GW part is now able to handle non-symmorphic space groups.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Matteo
>
>
>
>



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Pierre-Matthieu Anglade