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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">There is definitely no need to go to
      such a high number of k-points. <br>
      In the paper of Claudia, they were looking at metallic compounds,
      for which we need to have a very dense k-mesh (for the intraband
      transitions). <br>
      In your case you expect a semiconductor and thus you will have
      only interband transitions. Thus 6000 kpoints is already converged
      to my point of view. <br>
      I should say that the best way to insure the convergency in the
      present case is to plot the epsilon2 as a function of the energy
      for instance and to compare this quantity with different k-meshes.
      In your case, try to do 300 kpoints first and then 500, 1000,
      2000, 3000 kpoints ... You will certainly reach the convergency at
      about 1000-2000 kpoints ...<br>
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      Regards<br>
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      Xavier<br>
      P.S.: The values obtained for 90000 kpoints are curious but I
      imagine that you had a prob<br>
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      Le 9/30/2013 4:59 PM, ali ghafari a &eacute;crit&nbsp;:<br>
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                        have calculated the optical properties of TiSe2
                        by MBJ potential with 6000, 50000 and 90000
                        kpoints which generated after scf by x kgen as
                        discussed in the UG.<br>
                        As discussed in the paper of Prof. Claudia Draxl
                        (computer physics comm. 175, 1-14 (2006)) the
                        sum rule 1 and 2 show 'an effective number of
                        electrons contributing to the absoption process
                        as a function of energy'.<br>
                        but my calculations lead to :<br>
                        6000 kpoints:&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
                        <pre>sum rule 1: Int(sigma)dw      19.14 
sum rule 2: Int(eloss.w)dw    18.93
sum rule 3: Int(eloss/w)dw    1.51
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                        50000 kpoints<br>
                        <pre>sum rule 1: Int(sigma)dw      19.08
sum rule 2: Int(eloss.w)dw    18.94
sum rule 3: Int(eloss/w)dw    1.52</pre>
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90000 kpoints

sum rule 1: Int(sigma)dw      10.125 
sum rule 2: Int(eloss.w)dw    10.035
sum rule 3: Int(eloss/w)dw    1.51
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                        the results show that in 90000 kpoints the value
                        of 'sum rule 2' significantly decreases . in the
                        UG it has mensioned that for the optic we need
                        dense kpoints but how many? how can I check it
                        for optic? <br>
                        Best Regards <br>
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