<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">I remember that ph.x can deal with ultrasoft pseudo-potential (may not work with PAW pseudo-potential)~ According to my own experience, since NCPP alway requires high cut-off energy, it will cost more time for phonon calculation~<br>Or, this website: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/rappegroup/htdocs/Research/psp_gga.html, provides norm-conserving pseudo-potential parameters for certain elements (a little big harder pp, so the cut-off around 100Ry is required). You can use opium code to generate UPF format pp based on the parameters.<br><br><div>--<br>GAO Zhe<br>CMC Lab, Materials Science &amp; Engineering Department,<br>Seoul National University, South Korea<br>        
&nbsp;</div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br><pre><br>At&nbsp;2012-04-12&nbsp;14:55:34,"Sheleon&nbsp;Zhang"&nbsp;&lt;sheleonzhang@gmail.com&gt;&nbsp;wrote:
&gt;Hello,
&gt;Recently,i&nbsp;am&nbsp;going&nbsp;to&nbsp;perform&nbsp;the&nbsp;photon&nbsp;calulations&nbsp;for&nbsp;some&nbsp;crystal,
&gt;but&nbsp;most&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;pp&nbsp;for&nbsp;atoms&nbsp;are&nbsp;not&nbsp;nc&nbsp;formatted.&nbsp;at&nbsp;first,&nbsp;i&nbsp;want&nbsp;to
&gt;covert&nbsp;the&nbsp;abinit&nbsp;nc-pp&nbsp;to&nbsp;pwscf&nbsp;using&nbsp;phi2upf.x,&nbsp;but&nbsp;when&nbsp;it&nbsp;read&nbsp;the
&gt;second&nbsp;line&nbsp;of&nbsp;nc-pp&nbsp;file&nbsp;contains&nbsp;znatom,&nbsp;zion,&nbsp;pspdat,programme&nbsp;failed
&gt;with&nbsp;'Fortran&nbsp;runtime&nbsp;error:&nbsp;Bad&nbsp;real&nbsp;number&nbsp;in&nbsp;item&nbsp;1&nbsp;of&nbsp;list&nbsp;input'&nbsp;or
&gt;'forrtl:&nbsp;severe&nbsp;(59):&nbsp;list-directed&nbsp;I/O&nbsp;syntax&nbsp;error,&nbsp;unit&nbsp;1,'.&nbsp;i&nbsp;check
&gt;the&nbsp;code,but&nbsp;cant&nbsp;find&nbsp;anything&nbsp;wierd.Please&nbsp;guide&nbsp;me&nbsp;how&nbsp;to&nbsp;solve&nbsp;this
&gt;promblem.
&gt;Thanks&nbsp;in&nbsp;advanced
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;
&gt;Best&nbsp;regards!
&gt;
&gt;Sheleon
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