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Specify nbnd for bands.
<div class="">For broadening, check the input parameters occupations, smearing, degauss.</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">Vahid</div>
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Dalhousie University<br class="">
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<div class="">On Jun 17, 2020, at 8:44 PM, Coralie Khabbaz <<a href="mailto:khabbaz.coralie@gmail.com" class="">khabbaz.coralie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">I am performing an SCF calculation (on a tungsten nitride slab that contains 114 atoms) that is not converging. I was told that I had to <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">add a few empty bands and a broadening. However, I
don't know how to do that as I am still a beginner. How do I add empty bands and how do I broaden? Please help!!</span></div>
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