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On 4 Mar 2016 7:13 a.m., "Athul M" <<a href="mailto:athul.m68@gmail.com">athul.m68@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello everybody at the PW forum,<br>
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> I am Athul Muralidhar, a student from SRM University,India.I have just started to learn PWScf and have certain doubts regarding the same.<br>
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> I am working on a fcc type TiH2 system, I constructed the unit cell and relaxed the structure.<br>
> Took the relaxed co ordinates and set up an scf run. They were running fine.<br>
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> Here's where i got stuck, and some of my doubts are:<br>
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> 1.Should i run an nscf run before going for dos.x/pp.x ? (as this is not the case in VASP)</p>
<p dir="ltr">You can, but it is not required. You may want to do an nscf calculation with more k-points to improve the resolution of your DOS. </p>
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> 2.If i run an nscf run, should the 'occupation' be 'tetrahedra' or the same one as the scf run?</p>
<p dir="ltr">They are both valid choices. </p>
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> 3. If i had used "tetrahedra' in 'occupation' in the nscf run, what should i do to get a dos and a pdos plot?</p>
<p dir="ltr">The same as with any other occupation. </p>
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> Hope you guys can help,<br>
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> Thanks in advance for you time!<br>
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> - Athul Muralidhar,<br>
> Student,SRM University<br>
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