<br>hello,<br>sorry for posting something which has already been discussed in the forum. i figured out and it is something to do with matching the nature of pseudopotentials of all the entities involved.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:10 PM, sreekar guddeti <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:colonel.sreekar@gmail.com">colonel.sreekar@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br clear="all">sir,<br>i would like to make a self consistent calculation of algaas using espresso  4.0.5 and my input file for calculation is<br><br><a href="http://gaalas.scf.in" target="_blank">gaalas.scf.in</a><br>##################<br>

<br>GaAlAs<br>&amp;control<br>    calculation = &#39;scf&#39;<br>    restart_mode=&#39;from_scratch&#39;,<br>    prefix=&#39;gaalas&#39;,<br>    pseudo_dir = &#39;/home/fubar/Desktop/programming/espresso-4.0.5/pseudo&#39;,<br>

    outdir=&#39;/home/fubar/tmp&#39;<br>    tprnfor = .true., tstress=.true.<br> /<br>&amp;system<br>    ibrav=  2, celldm(1)=10.68, nat=  16, ntyp= 3,<br>    ecutwfc = 18.0, ecutrho = 50.0, <br>    <br>/<br>&amp;electrons<br>

    mixing_beta = 0.3<br>    conv_thr =  1.0d-4<br>    <br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> Ga   1.    Ga.pz-bhs.UPF<br> As  74.92  As.gon.UPF<br> Al   1.    Al.pbe-rrkj.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS<br> Ga     0.25    0.25    0.00<br>

 Ga    0.25    0.00    0.25<br> Ga    0.00    0.25    0.25<br> Ga    0.5    0.25    0.25<br> Ga    0.25    0.25    0.5<br> Ga    0.25    0.5    0.25<br> Ga    0.50    0.50    0.50<br> As    0.125    0.125    0.125<br> As    0.375    0.375    0.00<br>

 As    0.375    0.00    0.375<br> As    0.00    0.375    0.375<br> As    0.625    0.375    0.375<br> As    0.375    0.375    0.625<br> As    0.375    0.625    0.375<br> As    0.625    0.625    0.625<br> Al    0.00    0.00    0.00<br>

 <br>K_POINTS {automatic}<br>2 2 2 0 0 0<br><br>#################<br><br>on terminal $./pw.x &lt; <a href="http://gaalas.scf.in" target="_blank">gaalas.scf.in</a> &gt; gaalas.scf.out<br><br>the output file is <br><br>gaalas.scf.out<br>
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     Program PWSCF     v.4.0.5  starts ...<br>     Today is 27Aug2009 at 18: 5:35 <br><br>     For Norm-Conserving or Ultrasoft (Vanderbilt) Pseudopotentials or PAW<br><br>     Current dimensions of program pwscf are:<br>

     Max number of different atomic species (ntypx) = 10<br>     Max number of k-points (npk) =  40000<br>     Max angular momentum in pseudopotentials (lmaxx) =  3<br><br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br>

     from readpp : error #         3<br>     inconsistent DFT read<br> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%<br><br>     stopping ...<br><br>#################<br><br>i m not able to figure out the problem. i would be grateful for any help<br>

thanks in advance<br><br>yours sincerely<br>sreekar guddeti<br>IIT BOMBAY<br>physics undergrad<br>India<br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Sreekar Guddeti<br><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sreekar Guddeti<br><br>