[QE-users] Enquiry about the Choice for the Pseudopotential

Pietro Davide Delugas pdelugas at sissa.it
Tue Apr 16 09:44:52 CEST 2019


   Dear Kenan

when you send attachment via dropbox it would be much  easier for the 
other users to read them if you collected them in an archive and sent a 
link to the archive directly in the main message.
kind regards - Pietro



On 04/15/2019 01:26 PM, Kenan Song wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I used Quantum Espresso (QE) to compute the band structure for the 
> same system that I examined by VASP but QE gives me very different 
> band structure from that given by VASP, including both of the band 
> shape and energy.
>
> I think that the remain reason comes from the pseudopotential I choose 
> is not proper. VASP provides the pseudopotential for Co element with 9 
> valence electron; while, QE provides one with 27 valence electrons. 
> Would you anyone please tell me how to choose or generate a proper 
> pseudopotential? Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kenan Song
>
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