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--></style></head><body lang=JA link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear QE’s developers,</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I am studying ACE (Lin Lin, JCTC 2016, 12, 2242), now.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>And I have one question: May ACE allow us to plot band structures of hybrid functionals ?</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Once the projection vector of ACE (Eq(14) of JCTC2016) is constructed,</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the exact-exchange operator is independent of all the wave functions in the Fermi sea.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Then, I suggest saving the projection vector to storage after SCF calculation and</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>reading it before NSCF calculation. One can set arbitrary k-points in NSCF.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>This scheme is similar to non-local potential of PAW or density matrix of LDA+U.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I would like to hear your opinions on this idea.</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best Regards,</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Satomichi Nishihara</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>