<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Q.E Users.</div><div>I'm trying to do nscf calculation for GaAs, but i always recieved an error in my output file  that i can't to understand. can someone please help?<br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">error.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">     Initial potential from superposition of free atoms<br>     Check: negative starting charge=   -0.011310Initial potential from superposition of free atoms<br>     Check: negative starting charge=  
 -0.011310<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>     from potinit : error #         1<br>     starting and expected charges differ<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>     stopping ...<br><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> However, below is the input file i used.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
 normal;">&CONTROL<br>                 calculation = 'nscf' ,<br>                restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,<br>                     outdir = '/home/?????/>>>>/espresso-4.1.2/bin/' ,<br>                  pseudo_dir = '/home/??????/<<<</espresso-4.1.2/upf_files/' ,<br> /<br> &SYSTEM<br>                       ibrav = 1,<br>                   celldm(1) = 24,
 <br>                        nat  =  2,<br>                        ntyp = 2,<br>                     ecutwfc = 30.D0 , ,<br>                     ecutrho = 120 ,<br>                       nelec = 8,<br> /<br> &ELECTRONS<br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>    Ga  69.723   Ga.pw91-n-van.UPF<br>    As  74.92160 As.pw91-n-van.UPF <br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS
 angstrom<br>  Ga       3.476869398   0.000000000   0.000000000<br>  As       6.048316602   0.000000000   0.000000000<br><br>K_POINTS   automatic<br>  3  3  1   0 0 0 <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Any suggestion or help is highly appreciated.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Shamsu Abubakar</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;
 background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Postgraduate student UPM.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>