<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello dear users and developers of QE,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could please someone advice which lines to change in the source code for nbnd to add by default not 20%, but 30% empty bands?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I need it for using QE for the evolutionary crystallography algorithm which depends on generating and optimizing large set of structures (of different composition), and particularly my systems are metallic or narrow band gap semiconductors that for good convergence need ~ 30% empty states.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance,</div><br class=""><div class="">
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