convergence behaviour with XTermKind

Concerns issues with computing quasiparticle corrections to the DFT eigenvalues - i.e., the self-energy within the GW approximation (-g n), or considering the Hartree-Fock exchange only (-x)

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Re: convergence behaviour with XTermKind

Post by Daniele Varsano » Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:49 pm

Dear Christian,
my suggestions here is to check everything with care, and if you are interested only in the gap and not in the single QP states, avoid to use the Xterm as the gap converge much faster with respect all the variables and you should be able to converge with respect the bands and blocks.

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Daniele
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Re: convergence behaviour with XTermKind

Post by Christian Koenig » Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:40 am

Dear Daniele,

I have checked the convergence with BndsRnXp and NGsBlkXp again without the X terminator.
Everything seems to be fine now - BndsRnXp had to be increase by about a factor of three
but this is still better than having to use many more k-points and a very high value for NGsBlkXp.
Thanks again.

Best,

Christian
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Tyndall National Institute
Cork, Ireland

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