In the geometry optimization and molecular dynamics simulations, the restart files generated at the previous steps are automatically utilized at the next step to accelerate the convergence using an extrapolation scheme [60,61]. In the extrapolation scheme, the number of previous MD or geometry optimization steps can be controlled by a keyword:
scf.ExtCharge.History 2 # default=2From a series of benchmark calculations, 'scf.ExtCharge.History' of 2 works well and a larger number tends to be numerically unstable. So, we recommend for users to use the default setting of 2.