atomic C does not converge with nolevelshifting


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You are missing two essential ingredients in your input file to get the proper DFT atomic solution
1) You need to try to mimic the spherical symmetry (e.g. using the Oh point group as in the input below)
2) You need fractional occupation in place (e.g. using the smear keyword as in the input below)

echo

start cluster
geometry 
C 0 0 0
symmetry oh
end


basis "ao basis" cartesian
C library 6-311G** file  /usr/local/NWChem/data/libraries/
end

dft
 iterations 1000
 direct
 mult 1
 XC xpbe96 cpbe96
 smear 1d-7
end

cosmo
dielec 80.4
solvent water
do_cosmo_smd true
end

set cosmo:map cosmo-bondi.par

task dft