<div>Dear QE users,</div>
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<div>I am a PhD student who is new to QE. I got some questions when I did some simple test calculations on material OsO2. </div>
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<div>First, my input file for "scf" calculation is:</div>
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<div>&CONTROL<br> calculation='scf'<br> restart_mode='from_scratch',<br> pseudo_dir='/espresso-4.3.2/pseudo/',<br> outdir='./',<br> prefix='OsO2'<br>/<br>&SYSTEM<br>
ibrav=6, celldm(1)=8.52551, celldm(3)=0.70731, nat=6, ntyp=2,<br> nbnd=26, ecutwfc=30.0,ecutrho=300<br> occupations='smearing',smearing='marzari-vanderbilt', degauss=0.05<br>/<br>&ELECTRONS<br> diagonalization='david'<br>
mixing_beta=0.5,<br>/<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>Os 190.23 Os.pw91-n-van.UPF<br>O 15.9994 O.pw91-van_ak.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>Os 0.0 0.0 0.0<br>Os 0.5 0.5 0.5<br>O 0.3 0.3 0.0<br>O -0.3 -0.3 0.0<br>
O 0.8 0.2 0.5<br>O -0.8 -0.2 -0.5<br>K_POINTS automatic<br>6 6 8 0 0 0</div>
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<div>Then I did the "bands" calculation which just replaced the calculation="bands" and set the K_POINTS path. Finally I runned bands.x and plotbands.x to get the band structures. I actually got two strange flat bands in Os 5d bands (plot is attached below). Does anyone know the reason that can cause this kind of flat bands?</div>
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<div>Another question is about the spin-orbital coupling. If I further add spin-orbital coupling to my calculation, I am wondering if I have to use the full-relativistic pseudopoentials? If this is the case, is there any tested version I can get or I have to generate by myself, since there is no full-relativistic PPs on the QE website.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much in advance.</div>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Ruanchen Dong</div>
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