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On-the-fly control of SCF mixing parameters

During the SCF calculation, it is possible to change the following parameters for the SCF mixing:

   scf.maxIter
   scf.Min.Mixing.Weight
   scf.Max.Mixing.Weight
   scf.Kerker.factor
   scf.Mixing.StartPulay
For example, when you specify the following two keywords in your input file as
   System.CurrrentDirectory         ./    # default=./
   System.Name                      c60
then make a file whose name is c60_SCF_keywords in the directory ./, and write in it as
   scf.maxIter                100
   scf.Min.Mixing.Weight      0.01
   scf.Max.Mixing.Weight      0.10
   scf.Kerker.factor          10.0
   scf.Mixing.StartPulay      30
OpenMX will try to read the file, c60_SCF_keywords, at every SCF step, and show the following message in the standard output, if the file is successfully read by OpenMX.
   The keywords for SCF iteration are renewed by ./c60_SCF_keywords.
Also, if a minus value is given for the keyword, scf.maxIter, then OpenMX will be terminated. The on-the-fly control of SCF mixing parameters may be useful when large-scale calculations are performed.



2011-11-10