Dear Prof. Kay and elk experts,

I am trying to compute phonon dispersion for DyH3 system using ELK
(structure obtained from VASP at 40 GPa). I have done some simple tests for
binary compounds using supercell as well as DFPT approach in ELK and are
successful.

But when it comes to DyH3 system, the calculation end up with the
following warning either with supercell or DFPT approach

Info(phonon): working on DYN_Q0000_0000_0000_S01_A001_P1.OUT

Info(phonon): working on DYN_Q0102_0000_0000_S01_A001_P1.OUT

Warning(phonon): failed to reach self-consistency after 200 loops

I already play with the following parameters:
1) rgkmax 4-8 2) gmaxvr 16-20 3) k-mesh autokpt to 16x16x16 grid or high =
.true.

Here is the input file for your quick reference. Any suggestions to
overcome this problem are highly appreciated.

tasks

0

205

ngridq

2 2 2

!highq

! .true.

radkpt

75.0

swidth

0.001

stype

1

rgkmax

4.5

gmaxvr

20.0

msmooth

4

lmaxapw

8

lmaxo

8

fracinr

0.5000000000E-02

nrmtscf

1.50

nxlo

2

fracinr

0.5000000000E-02

nrmtscf

1.50

nxlo

2

!autokpt

! .true.

vkloff

0.000000000 0.000000000 0.000000000

nempty

10.00

autolinengy

.true.

gmaxrf

4.00

beta0

0.01

!tasks

! 0 : ground-state run

! 210 : phonon DOS

! 220 : phonon dispersion

! 240 : electron-phonon matrix elements

! 245 : phonon line-widths

! 250 : Eliashberg function, alpha^2F

! 260 : solving the Eliashberg equations

ngridk

16 16 16

mixtype

3

sppath

'../../SC-1/'

avec

4.478650593 4.478650593 0.000000000

4.478650593 -4.478650593 0.000000000

4.478650593 0.000000000 4.478650593

atoms

2 : nspecies

'Dy.in' : spfname

1 : natoms; atposl, bfcmt below

0.00000000    0.00000000    0.00000000    0.00000000  0.00000000

0.00000000

'H.in' : spfname

3 : natoms; atposl, bfcmt below

0.50000000    0.50000000    0.00000000    0.00000000  0.00000000

0.00000000

0.25000000    0.75000000    0.50000000    0.00000000  0.00000000

0.00000000

0.75000000    0.25000000    0.50000000    0.00000000  0.00000000

0.00000000

plot1d

6 200 : nvp1d, npp1d

0.5 0.25 0.75

0.5 0.5 0.5

0.0 0.0 0.0

0.5 0.0 0.5

0.5 0.25 0.75

0.375 0.375 0.75

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Thanks and regards

Neelam Yedukondalu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate,

Computational Materials Discovery Laboratory,

Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University,

Stony Brook, NY-11794, USA