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Backtrack line minimisation can fail

Open davidbowler opened this issue 10 months ago • 0 comments

The backtracking line minimiser applies an Armijo criterion to decide whether a change in energy is acceptable. Under some circumstances this can lead to a failure to perform a line minimisation as the largest drop in energy does not satisfy the criterion.

(Unfortunately the only example I have available is for a large, five hundred atom system; it is attached for reference - the failure is in cell optimisation.)

ArmijoFail.zip

davidbowler avatar Apr 05 '24 10:04 davidbowler