<div>dear all,</div><div> in INPUT_LD1.html about ecutmin,ecutmax,decut we have :</div><div>&quot;</div><div>Parameters (Ry) used for test with a basis set of spherical</div><div>Bessel functions j_l(qr) . The hamiltonian at fixed scf</div>
<div>potential is diagonalized for various values of ecut:</div><div>ecutmin, ecutmin+decut, ecutmin+2*decut ... up to ecutmax.</div><div>This yields an indication of convergence with the</div><div>corresponding plane-wave cutoff in solids, and shows</div>
<div>in an unambiguous way if there are &quot;ghost&quot; states</div><div>&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>how does ld1.x say &quot;there is a ghost state somewhere&quot; ?</div><div><br></div><div>when testing a PAW with ld1.x I have the following error:</div>
<div><br></div><div>&quot;</div><div>     Cutoff (Ry) :   50.0</div><div>                           N = 1       N = 2       N = 3</div><div>     E(L=0) =        -3.2666 Ry   -0.2491 Ry   -0.0148 Ry</div><div>     E(L=1) =        -1.8963 Ry   -0.0931 Ry    0.0105 Ry</div>
<div>     E(L=2) =        -0.0637 Ry    0.0203 Ry    0.0602 Ry</div><div><br></div><div>     Cutoff (Ry) :   55.0</div><div>                           N = 1       N = 2       N = 3</div><div>     E(L=0) =        -3.2666 Ry   -0.2491 Ry   -0.0148 Ry</div>
<div>     E(L=1) =        -1.8963 Ry   -0.0931 Ry    0.0105 Ry</div><div>     E(L=2) =        -0.0637 Ry    0.0203 Ry    0.0601 Ry</div><div><br></div><div>     Cutoff (Ry) :   60.0</div><div>                           N = 1       N = 2       N = 3</div>
<div><br></div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div>     from rdiags : error #        73</div><div>     failed to converge (factorization)</div><div> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div>
<div><br></div><div>     stopping ...</div><div><br></div><div>&quot;</div><div>what does it mean ?</div><div>thanks.</div><div><br></div>