<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks very much, Iurii. I really appreciate your answer and it does make sense to me. With gamma point only it works fine. And, you are right, my system is a solid and I am <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">trying to simulate the optical spectrum. However, I am not sure with the number of atoms (~120 or more) GW-BSE calculations with supercell is actually feasible. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Abhirup<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Abhirup Patra</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Postdoctoral Research Fellow</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Department of Chemistry</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">University of Pennsylvania</font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 7:50 AM Timrov Iurii <<a href="mailto:iurii.timrov@epfl.ch">iurii.timrov@epfl.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>As you can see from the error message of the turbo_davidson code, the k-points algorithm is not supported. Only Gamma point sampling can be used.</p>
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<p>If I understand correctly, your system is a solid, right? And you want to use a unit cell with a k-points mesh, right? The turbo_davidson cannot be used in this case. You may try to use a supercell with a Gamma point sampling. But be careful when using TDDFT
in the adiabatic approximation for the absorption spectroscopy of solids. I recommend that you check literature on this topic. Maybe you will need to resort to the BSE approach.</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [QE-users] k-point algorithm is not tested yet turbo davidson</font>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am trying to use turbo_davidson starting from a SCF calculation using PBE without smearing and spin-polarization. This system is a non-metal with bandgap of 2.6 eV. I gave uniform k-mesh as follows for the
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K_POINTS {crystal_b}<br>
9<br>
0.0 0.0 0.0 0<br>
0.0 -0.5 0.0 0<br>
0.0 -0.5 0.5 0<br>
0.5 -0.5 0.5 0<br>
0.5 -0.5 0.0 0<br>
0.5 0.0 0.0 0<br>
0.0 0.0 0.0 0<br>
0.0 0.0 0.5 0<br>
0.5 0.0 0.5 0
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">&lr_input<br>
prefix = 'pristine_pbe'<br>
outdir = './'<br>
! wfcdir = './'<br>
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&lr_dav<br>
num_eign = 35,<br>
num_init = 70,<br>
num_basis_max = 200,<br>
start = 0.0d0<br>
finish = 3.5d0<br>
step = 0.001d0<br>
broadening = 0.005d0<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">However, I am getting the following error:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> Error in routine lr_readin (1):<br>
k-point algorithm is not tested yet</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am wondering if there is a simple way out to this problem other than explicitly testing different k mesh combinations.
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