Thanks! Many thanks! Super thanks for your patient and detailed answers, Paolo. 
It finally got solved. Following your guidance, I will do more digging and 
tests on these variables.

all best





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发件人:"Paolo Giannozzi" <p.gianno...@gmail.com>
发送时间:2020-04-16 15:27:06 (星期四)
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主题: Re: [QE-users] Seeking help for SCF calculations on possible semiconductor 
(Based on several error reports)


On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 4:05 AM <zhangk...@mail.sysu.edu.cn> wrote:


1) firstly, I used occupations = 'tetrahedra_opt'(the out1 file in 
attachments), it gets a warning in line 24 but gets job done. Is this set in 
related to the crystal? Is this method suitable for my system?


with smearing, forces are exactly the derivatives of the energy. With 
tetrahedra, this is not true. With "optimized" tetrahedra, the error should 
however be sufficiently small to ensure a godd quality of forces.


2) secondly, I set smearing in input file (the scf file), I set it to cold by 
using generator (https://www.materialscloud.org/work/tools/qeinputgenerator), 
while the error suggests to using gaussian.

no, the error suggests (or was intended to suggest) that you set a value for 
the gaussian broadening "degauss"


So I deleted the cold set. And the error is back to k-points (the out file in 
attachments). 

no it's not: there is no error in k-points. What may happen is that your code 
does not like the absence of a new line at the end of your file (it ends on the 
last line). Add an empty new line at the end.


3) as your suggestion, does it mean that if I want to set tot_magnetization I 
should know a possible range in magnetization about my system at least?



usually you should not need to set the total magnetization


Paolo


All best,

Kan Zhang

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发件人:"Paolo Giannozzi" <p.gianno...@gmail.com>
发送时间:2020-04-15 17:53:24 (星期三)
收件人: "Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum" <users@lists.quantum-espresso.org>
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主题: Re: [QE-users] Seeking help for SCF calculations on possible semiconductor 
(Based on several error reports)


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:18 AM <zhangk...@mail.sysu.edu.cn> wrote:


celldm(4)       =  120.000 celldm(5)       =  90.000  celldm(6)       =  90.000



these must be the cosines, not the angles. Luckily they are ignored for 
ibrav=4of angles, not the


    diagonalization =  'cg'

don't use this option unless you have a good reason to



I have difficulties on how to specify the magnetization related variables. Why 
these variables must be specified?
 
because if you don't constrain the magnetization and don't break the symmetry, 
you don't get any magnetization;
if you don't constrain the magnetization but break the symmetry and leave the 
system find its preferred magnetization, you need to allow for fractional 
occupancies; if you constrain the magnetization, you also constrain occupancies


The after error report is: Error in routine card_kpoints (1):error while 
reading automatic k points.


you made something else from what you describe: there is nothing wrong in card 
k_points.



Paolo



I am afraid that this will be a dead cycle. So I am here to seeking some 
suggestions, sincerely.

Kan Zhang

from Sun Yat-sen University,China




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