<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Paolo,</div><div>Thanks for your response. Yes, tetrahedra should work, but for large unit cells (108 atoms) I have problems because to obtain reasonable results the k-mesh must be somewhat dense and I have a problem where the wfc occupy more terabytes than allowed by the computer systems. I think I can combine a coarse Monkhorst-Pack mesh with a dense mesh, but I have doubts on how to set the weights at the interfaces between the coarse and the dense mesh. I guess I should read on self-adaptative integration algorithms. Doing that, I think I can run epsilon.x with with groups of few k-points and add the dielectric functions obtained for each set. </div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> Is there any available tool or method to generate non-uniform k-point</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> grids (and weights) useful to sample the van-Hove singularities in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>> DOS or the joint DOS for calculations of dielectric function?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>not that I know. If however the goal is to obtain correct van Hove</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">>singularities, with tetrahedra you should obtain them.</span><br>
</div><div><br></div>Best regards,<div>Eduardo<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">
<div>Eduardo Menendez Proupin<br>Departamento de Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile <br>URL: <a href="http://www.gnm.cl/emenendez" target="_blank">http://www.gnm.cl/emenendez</a></div><div><br></div><div>
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