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Non self-consistent calculations: Intro
Once the charge density has been obtained in a scf run, more calculations can be performed at fixed density (non-scf). Among these:
- calculations of Kohn-Sham energies and orbitals on any given set of k-points (i.e. without specific aim of represent a reasonable sampling of the BZ);
- calculations as above, also increasing the number of computed (= diagonalized) bands (incl the calculation of empty Kohn-Sham states);
- Importantly, nscf calculations are typically done to plot KS bands or compute the DOS,
- but also as a preliminary step to other calculations (e.g. uniform k-point samplings and large amounts of empty states are using in GW and other many-body perturbation theory algorithms implemented with sum-over-states techniques)
In the Quantum ESPRESSO input file one has to set:
calculation="nscf" # kpts sampling BZ
or
calculation="bands" # kpts along lines
K-points (and number of bands if relevant) need to be specified.