<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am sorry, I forgot to attached my calculated DOS. Here I attached a picture with my obtained DOS, where you can see that there is no contributions from both Na and Cl to the conduction band region. </div>

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<span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino">Alexander G. Kvashnin </span></strong></span></font></p><table border="0" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">

<tbody><tr><td><div><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">=====================================================<br>PhD Student <br>Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology          <a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmipt.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank">http://mipt.ru/</a></font></span></strong></span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">141700, Institutsky lane 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia</font></span></strong></span></div></td><td><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:x-small"><strong><font color="#000000"><br>

</font></strong></span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">Junior research scientist<br>Technological Institute for Superhard <br>and Novel Carbon Materials                                <a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tisnum.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank">http://www.tisnum.ru/</a><a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntcstm.troitsk.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank"><br>

</a>142190, Central'naya St. 7a, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia<br>=====================================================</font></span></strong></span></td><td><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:x-small"><strong><font color="#000000"><br>

</font></strong></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 April 2014 12:43, Alexander G. Kvashnin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agkvashnin@gmail.com" target="_blank">agkvashnin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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Dear QE users,</div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">I tried to calculate PDOS for simple cubic NaCl structure. I performed an optimization vc-relax with 6x6x6 k-points, than I made scf calculations, nscf calculations and after that I ran projwfc to plot PDOS. </div>


<div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">My question is why when I plotted DOS_Na+DOS_Cl it differs from the total DOS for whole system, specially in conduction band?</div>
<div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">Here is my nscf file and input file for projfwc:</div>
<div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> &control</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    calculation='nscf'</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    restart_mode='restart',</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    tstress = .true.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    tprnfor = .true.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    prefix='nacl',</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    pseudo_dir = '.',</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    outdir='.',</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    nstep = 200 </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> /</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> &system</font></div><div>
<font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                    nosym = .false.,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     ibrav = 1,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     nat = 4,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     ntyp = 2,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     ecutwfc = 30,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     celldm(1) = 10.750047341391399,</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">                     occupations = 'tetrahedra',</font></div><div><span style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif"> /</span><br>
</div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> &electrons</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    conv_thr =  1.0d-8</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    mixing_beta = 0.7</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    electron_maxstep = 300</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> /</font></div><div><span style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">ATOMIC_SPECIES</span><br>
</div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> Na    22.9897    Na.pbe-sp-van_ak.UPF</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> Cl    35.4527    Cl.pbe-n-van.UPF</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">ATOMIC_POSITIONS  crystal</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Na      -0.500000000  -0.500000000   0.000000000</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Na      -0.500000000   0.000000000  -0.500000000</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Cl      -0.500000000   0.000000000   0.000000000</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Cl      -0.500000000  -0.500000000  -0.500000000</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Cl       0.000000000  -0.500000000   0.000000000</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Cl       0.000000000   0.000000000  -0.500000000</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Na       0.000000000   0.000000000   0.000000000</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Na       0.000000000  -0.500000000  -0.500000000</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">K_POINTS automatic </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> 6 6 6  0 0 0</font></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> &inputpp</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    outdir='./'</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    prefix='nacl'</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    ngauss=1, degauss=0.02</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    DeltaE=0.05</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    Emin=-15.0, Emax=15.0,</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4">    filpdos='nacl.k'</font></div>


<div><font color="#000000" face="garamond, serif" size="4"> /</font></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">
<br></div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">Any suggestion are welcome!</div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">Thank you in advance!</div><div style="font-size:large;font-family:garamond,serif">


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<span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino">Alexander G. Kvashnin </span></strong></span></font></p><table border="0" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">


<tbody><tr><td><div><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">=====================================================<br>PhD Student <br>Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology          <a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmipt.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank">http://mipt.ru/</a></font></span></strong></span></div>


<div><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">141700, Institutsky lane 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russia</font></span></strong></span></div></td><td><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino;font-size:x-small"><strong><font color="#000000"><br>


</font></strong></span></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-size:small"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,palatino"><font color="#000000">Junior research scientist<br>Technological Institute for Superhard <br>and Novel Carbon Materials                                <a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tisnum.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank">http://www.tisnum.ru/</a><a href="http://s.wisestamp.com/links?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntcstm.troitsk.ru%2F&sn=" target="_blank"><br>


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