[Pw_forum] uniform k-point grid with option 'automatic'??
TIMOTHY UTO
timuto at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 30 19:07:35 CEST 2015
please i can not get d input file for kpoint generation,
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On Wed, 4/29/15, Paolo Giannozzi <paolo.giannozzi at uniud.it> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] uniftionorm k-point grid with option 'automatic'??
To: "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum at pwscf.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 9:19 AM
If you cannot use the automatic grid
as provided by the "automatic"
option of the K_POINTS card, you can use an auxiliary
program
"PW/tools/kpoints.x" to produce a uniform grid of k-points
in the
complete Brillouin Zone.
P.
On Fri, 2015-04-24 at 17:25 +0200, Ludwig, Stephan wrote:
>
>
>
> I have a question
concerning the option 'automatic' for
> k_point card:
>
>
> In order to use
the epsilon.x postprocessing tool I need a
> uniform k-point
grid. In the manual for epsilon.x
> (http://web.mit.edu/espresso_v5.0.1/i386_linux26/espresso-5.0.1/PP/Doc/eps_man.pdf)
>
>
> it is said that
the option automatic is not suitable:
>
>
>
> Epsilon.x
doesn’t support the reduction of the k-points grid
> into the
unreducible Brillouin zone, so the previous PW runs
> must be performed
with a uniform k-points grid and all
> k-points weights
>
> must be equal to
each other, i.e. in the k-points card the
> k-points
coordinates must be given manually in crystal or alat
> or bohr , but not
with the automatic option.
>
>
>
>
> On the other hand
I read in the pw_user_guide
> (http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/pw_user_guide.pdf)
that in order to obtain a uniform k-point grid I shall use
the option automatic:
>
>
>
> In the latter case,
you should specify a uniform grid of
> points. For DOS
calculations you should
>
chooseoccupations='tetrahedra' together
with an automatically
> generated uniform
k-point grid (card KPOINTS with option
> \automatic").
>
> So what is the
truth?
>
>
>
> Thanks and
regards
>
>
>
> Stephan Ludwig
>
>
>
>
>
>
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