<div dir="ltr">Dear QE users,<div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">I do density of states calculations using QE and I try to calculate the
electronic heat capacity of metals with the electronic DOS:</span></p><p class="" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>What is the energy in the
DOS file? Is it the eigenvalues? How can I calculate the total energy or the
one electron contribution from the DOS? (I try to do the integral: DOS(E)*E*dE
from minus Infinity to E Fermi and I
think it should be equal to the one electron contribution, but it does not).</p>
<p class="" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>What do you know about the
excited states? DFT is a good approximation for excited states?</p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt">Thank you very much</p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt">Uri Argaman</p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt">
Ben-Gurion University</p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt">Israel</p></div></div>