<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Dear QE experts,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We are trying to retrieve the PDoS from<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <font size="2">an Au/AG alloy with no success. The projwfc.x routine returns:</font></span></div><div dir="auto"><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></div><div dir="auto"><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Error in routine do_projwfc (1):<br> Cannot project on zero atomic wavefunctions</span></font></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Searching on QE forum we found the following message:</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">----<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The projection of the calculated Kohn-Sham orbitals can only be done on the wave functions read from the pseudo potential<br>file(s). The message tells you that, probably, the UPF files you’re using do not have a PP_PSWFC section, so the variable natomwfc<br>is set to 0 by the pw.x initialisation.<br><br><br>The solution is either tell the code you used to generate the pseudopotential files to write the atomic<br>wave functions or to download the pseudopotential files from <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/pseudopotentials/">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/pseudopotentials/</a><br>or to use pslibrary.<br><br>Giovanni</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">----</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We believe that could be the problem, however changing the pseudopotential is not a possibility. We are also working with the dielectric tensor via eps.x routine. Such a program requires norm-conserving pseudopotentials that we were no able to find ar <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/pseudopotentials/">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/pseudopotentials/</a>. Therefore we used Optimized Norm Conserving Vanderbilt PP (ONCVPSP) from <a href="http://www.quantum-simulation.org/potentials/sg15_oncv/">http://www.quantum-simulation.org/potentials/sg15_oncv/</a>.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is there another way in order to retrieve the PDOS information still using such norm-conserving PPs?</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks in advance!<br></span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Dr. Anibal Thiago Bezerra</div></div></div>
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