[Pw_forum] Basic question on Band structure

2011-02-15 Thread Giovani Faccin
Hi Rose Mary, See if you can find this book: V. L. Moruzzi, J. F. Janak, A. R. Williams; Calculated Electronic Properties of Metals. It's a kind of handbook containing calculated DOS and other properties for many elements. Then you just have to plot your calculated DOS e compare with the book's

[Pw_forum] Basic question on Band structure

2011-02-15 Thread Nicola Marzari
Hi Rose Mary, in addition to the book by Richard Martin, suggested by Stefano, you could listen to all the relevant lectures from the QE Santa Barbara school, in the learn/multimedia section of the quantum-espresso page, as well as everything else that is in the learn section. nicola On

[Pw_forum] Basic question on Band structure

2011-02-15 Thread Stefano de Gironcoli
M. Martin, Electronic Structure: basic theory and practical methods, Cambridge University Press (2004) On 02/15/2011 10:22 AM, Rose Mary wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to ask all a very question,I am a new user of espresso, also I am a > very new in solid state Physics ,how shall I predict that my

[Pw_forum] Basic question on Band structure

2011-02-15 Thread Rose Mary
Hi all, I need to ask all a very question,I am a new user of espresso, also I am a very new in solid state Physics ,how shall I predict that my calculated band structure is correct?Also it will be helpful if I can get some theory of fundamentals of band structure calculation . Regards Rose Mary