[Pw_forum] about kpoints.x

[Katalin Gaal-Nagy]

Dear Paolo,

related to this issue I would like to add a question:
The k-points are also used for phonons. In the past I assumed that I have 
to normalize the phonon DOS with respect to the sum of the weights. Is 
there anything similar for the phonons like in electronic calculation the 
renormalization with respect to the correct number of electrons, which I 
also should take into account?

Best wishes,
Katalin


>
>> I would like to know if the program kpoints.x is 100% reliable.
>
> nothing is 100% reliable, but that specific code is very simple
>
>> [...] So the question is, is there any problem behind
>> or it is just a normalization issue.
>
> the latter: the code will renormalize weights to yield the correct
> number of electrons
>
> Paolo
>