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dear Rameswar </div>
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The bands program is usually called after a pw run with calculation='bands'. This is a non-self-consistent calculation, so it is not necessary to specify the total magnetisation constraint in its input. pw reads the density, initialises the KS Hamiltonian and
computes the eigenvalues. Removing total magnetisation will likely avoid the error. </div>
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It might be, though, that the two Fermi levels are still reported in the XML file, and this may cause the bands to fail. </div>
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in that case just send me the XML file, I will try to fix it manually. </div>
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For the future, we will look into bands to see the reason for this block and remove it. </div>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear QE community,</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I would greatly appreciate your advice on this. Basically, I am trying to perform a band structure calculation for a unit cell that contains an unpaired electron and is therefore paramagnetic. Could you please suggest the proper
way to handle this setup?</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your guidance.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best regards,</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Dr Paulatto,
<div>Thank you very much for your response. Actually, the error I am getting is as below'</div>
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Error in routine bands (1):<br>
The bands code with constrained magnetization has not been tested<br>
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<div>And I was wrong earlier, the error also appears even if I do not use spin_component. I think this error shows as I have "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:monospace">total_</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:monospace">magnetization=1</span>"
in my scf input. Now, my system has -2 charge and the spin multiplicity is 2. When I used starting_magnetization instead of total_magnetization, all the calculations were fine but I did not get the right magnetic moment as I expected. </div>
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<div>Basically, I did an scf, nscf, bands and then used a post procession calculation using bands.x to generate the ".dat" file for the band structure. The first three job competed successfully and the error appears only in the last post procession calculation
for which the input is below:</div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">&BANDS</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>prefix = 'crystal_from_cif',</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>outdir='./scratch'</span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span> </span>filband = 'bands.dat'</span></p>
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<div>I am also attaching the other inputs for you to take a quick look. Please note that the coordinates are not complete in the inputs</div>
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<div>I am also curious to know about your comment above "It depends on what you want to achieve." Could you please elaborate this a bit more?</div>
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<div>Your advice would be highly appreciated. </div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Rameswar</div>
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<p>Should I use the<span> </span><code>spin_component</code><span> </span>keyword to specify up-spin or down-spin bands, or is it recommended to simply run<span> </span><code>bands.x</code><span> </span>without this keyword?</p>
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<p>I tried using<span> </span><code>spin_component=1</code><span> </span>and<span> </span><code>2</code>, but I encountered errors in both cases. On the other hand, when I ran<span> </span><code>bands.x</code><span> </span>without the<span> </span><code>spin_component</code><span> </span>keyword,
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Could you please advise on the correct way to handle this situation? Any guidance or clarification would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p>The correct way is to provide the full input and output of the calculation that is giving you trouble. And, more in general, if you think that a specific output is wrong, you should explain why you think so.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you in advance for your help.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Best regards,<br>
Rameswar Bhattacharjee</p>
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