Dear Khambholja:<div><br><div>When calculating the total energy, QE performs integration in the first Brillioun zone to account the energy of electrons.</div><div>But this integration can not be fulfilled analytically. Instead, it must be performed by numerical integration.</div>
<div>Therefore, the k-mesh is used in this numerical integration.</div><div><br></div><div>The k-shift may be used to avoid special high symmetry points, for example gama point.</div><div>However, I am also a little confused with the significance of k-shift.</div>
<div>Can any one give a explanation about k-shift:)</div><div>Thanks in advance:)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; ">numerical integration</span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Shyam Khambholja <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:physik.shyam@gmail.com">physik.shyam@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Hi, friends,</div>
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<div> I am a new user of pwscf. I am trying to generate k-points using kpoints.x. can you tell me the significance of </div>
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<div> mesh : n1 n2 n3 and</div>
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<div> mesh : k1 k2 k3 [ 0 no shift, 1 shifted ]</div>
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<div> Thanks</div>
<div><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Shyam G Khambholja<br>Reseach student,<br>Depratment of Physics,<br>Sardar Patel University </font></div>
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