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    <p>Hello Pacome and Pietro,</p>
    <p>I can confirm that tetrahedra_opt works for the 2D k-point
      meshes, both for scf/nscf and dos.x/projwfc.x calculations, so it
      should be implemented at least in some way. The other thing is
      that I am not convinced with the credibility of results I obtain,
      but it is a different story.</p>
    <p>Regards,<br>
    </p>
    <p>Oleksandr<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Oleksandr Motornyi
PhD

Laboratoire des Solides Irradies
Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France)</pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/14/2019 08:58 AM, Pietro Davide
      Delugas wrote:<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Pacome <br>
        <br>
        using qe-6.3  you can actually run the nscf  calculation without
        specifying occupation=tetrahedra leave smearing or  whatever
        else and  just take care to check that you are computing as many
        bands you need, which as I read you are already doing specifying
        nbnd.  <br>
        In the dos.x input  you have just to add the option bz_sum =
        'tetrahedra_opt'.  <br>
        <br>
        if you use qe-6.3 remember that the format of xml and charge
        density files are different from those of 6.2 and older
        versions, so you have to rerun the scf computation as well. <br>
        <br>
        One thing that I notice now is that you are using a 9X9X1 mesh,
        I am not sure whether 2D version of the method is actually
        implemented in Q.E. you could try using a 9X9X2 mesh and see if
        that works. <br>
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        greetings - Pietro   <br>
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        On 02/14/2019 01:03 AM, Pacome NGUIMEYA wrote:<br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">Hi all,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">I have been trying to run
                  the calculation of the Density of State (DOS) for TaAs
                  using <b>QE-6.1</b> but It always crashes and returns
                  the following error message:</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     task #         6</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     from tetra_init :
                  error #        26</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     cannot remap grid on
                  k-point list</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">There are several forums
                  on this subject where many workaround have been
                  proposed.</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">I went through all of them
                  and I tried each of the proposed workaround that I
                  found, but none of them could solve the problem. </font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">Neither adding bands <b>(ndnd=144)</b>
                  nor <b>the increase of the convergence threshold to
                    1.0e-11</b> worked (<a
                    href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5f15ead20100cw4d.html"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5f15ead20100cw4d.html</a>),
                  not even the workaround propose by Prof Paolo
                  Giannozzi here <a
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.quantum-espresso.org/msg32997.html"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.quantum-espresso.org/msg32997.html</a></font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">I even <b>changed the
                    version of quantum espresso</b>; I used <b>QE 5.4</b>,
                  <b>6.2</b> and <b>6.3</b> but I keep getting errors</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">with <b>QE-5.4</b> and <b>QE-6.2</b>
                  I am getting the following error</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     task #        21</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     from tetrahedra :
                  error #        26</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     cannot remap grid on
                  k-point list</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
                </font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace"> and this one with <b>QE-6.3</b></font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
                </font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     task #         0</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">     from pw_readfile :
                  error #         1</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">     error opening xml
                  data file</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">In the <b>particular case</b>
                  of <b>QE-6.3</b> the <b>problem seems to be solved</b>
                  but it looks like the program <b>can not find the xml
                    file</b>; <b>it looks like it does not exist</b>.</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">I am using the CHPC(centre
                  for high performance computing)'s cluster to run my
                  calculations</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">I need your help to sort
                  this out</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">Is it possible to
                  calculate the DOS with <b>occupations = 'smearing',
                    smearing = 'M-P', degauss = 0.011</b> and with the <b>automatically
                    chosen k-points 9 9 1</b> 1 1 1 instead of <b>occupations
                    = 'tetrahedra'</b> with <b>k-points 9 9 1</b> 1 1
                  1.</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> I look forward to hearing
                  from you,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><br>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> Below is my input file
                  (also attached to this email)</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">&CONTROL</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">               
                   calculation = 'nscf',</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">               </span> 
                      prefix = 'TaAs',</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">               
                  restart_mode = 'from_scratch',</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">                 
                  pseudo_dir = '/...,</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">                     
                  outdir = '/...,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">       </span> 
                       etot_conv_thr = 1.0e-5,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">  <span style="white-space:pre">            </span> 
                  wf_collect = .true.,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> /</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">&SYSTEM</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                     
                   ibrav = 7,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                         
                   A = 3.4348002616,</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">                       </span> 
                   B = 3.4348002616,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">                       </span> 
                   C = 11.641,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">               </span> 
                       cosAB = 0,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">               </span> 
                       cosAC = 0,</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">               </span> 
                       cosBC = 0,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                       
                   nat = 8,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                       
                  ntyp = 2,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">                       </span>nbnd
                  = 72,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                   
                   ecutwfc = 70,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">                   
                   ecutrho = 400,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">         <span style="white-space:pre"> </span>
                  occupations = 'tetrahedra',</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> /</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">&ELECTRONS</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">       </span> 
                            conv_thr = 1.0e-11,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"><span style="white-space:pre">       </span> 
                         mixing_mode = 'plain',</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">               
                   mixing_beta = 0.7,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace">           
                   diagonalization = 'cg',</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> /</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> ATOMIC_SPECIES</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">   Ta   180.94788 
                  Ta.pbe-spn-kjpaw_psl.0.2.UPF</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">   As   74.9216   
                  As.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.0.2.UPF</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace"> ATOMIC_POSITIONS
                  {crystal}</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">Ta       0.256888939 
                  -0.145590417  -0.031926398</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">Ta       0.575434474 
                   0.440904275   0.567465416</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">Ta      -0.284237537 
                   0.808259399   0.316294705</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">Ta       0.027951774 
                   0.396761377   0.919029854</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">As       0.041545914 
                  -0.136018486   0.451188370</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">As       0.704536879 
                   0.274274640   0.880297072</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">As       0.172406031 
                   0.385662500   0.492672865</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">As       0.505473527 
                  -0.024253289   0.072978100</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> K_POINTS {automatic}</font></div>
              <div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000"
                  face="monospace, monospace">  9 9 1  1 1 1</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> Regards,</font></div>
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                  face="monospace, monospace"> Pacome</font></div>
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