<div dir="ltr"><pre><i>Dear all,<br></i><i><br></i><i>I'm trying to calculate the electronic DOS for liquid sodium at high pressure. <br>The scf calculation is going well, but the nscf stops with the following message:<br>
<br> Message from routine efermit:<br> internal error, cannot braket Ef<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br> from tweights : error # 1<br> bad Fermi energy<br>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</i><i><br></i><i> </i><i><br></i><i>I search for this problem in the forum and found few suggestions.<br></i><i>So I tried to change nbnd, k-points grid, mixing_mode</i><i> <br>
and smearing but it doesn't work.<br><br>Does anyone have suggestion?<br><br></i><i>Best regards,<br>Hagai Eshet</i><i><br><br>P.S I attached my input files<br></i></pre></div>