<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Dear Uri, the smoothness may only be due to the choice of broadening function and the broadening parameters.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">===================<br>Dr. Xiaochuan Ge (Giovanni)<div>Center for Functional Nanomaterials<br><div>Brookhaven national laboratory </div><div>===================</div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 March 2015 at 05:25, Uri Argaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:argamanu@post.bgu.ac.il" target="_blank">argamanu@post.bgu.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear QE users and devalopers<div>In the website:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/wparker/index.php/Platinum_projected_density_of_states" target="_blank">https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/wparker/index.php/Platinum_projected_density_of_states</a></div><div>I see a very interesting comparison between Quantum Espresso, ABINIT and GPAW. It can be seen that Quantum Espresso produced a very smooth projected density of states. Why does it happens? and why there is a significant difference between the different codes?</div><div>In addition, it is strang that quantum espresso produced not smooth total DOS that have sharp picks</div><div>(like in this publication: <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/2053-1591/2/1/016505/" target="_blank">http://iopscience.iop.org/2053-1591/2/1/016505/</a>) but the PDOS is smooth.<br></div><div>Thank you in advance</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Uri Argaman</div><div>Materisl Engineering Depantment</div><div>Ben-Gurion University</div><div>Israel</div></font></span></div>
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