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Hello, In this tutorial we will go over how to perform a band structure calculation in Quantum Espresso and then how to plot it in python. This tutorial assumes you use the following things: Quantum Espresso 5.3+ xcrysden python3.4+ Matplotlib Numpy The python requirements will only be if you want to use the plotting tools…
tl;dr: This python script generates many subplots based on a directories file. Download it here: DOS.Layered.zip Hello All, If you come here often for tutorials you may have seen some brief write ups on how to use dos.x and projwfc.x to generate pDOS data (here) or my python script to automatically generate a pDOS plot…
Hello All, I hope you are starting to enjoy summer as much as I am. This is a quick tutorial on how to read a cube file into a numpy array in python and integrate it. This was born out of a very unique problem I am having right now involving adding electrons to a…
Hello All, This probably should have been one of my first tutorial posts, but it is worth rehashing now. As many of you will be running on large many processor systems, tuning your runscript is hugely important for a couple reasons: Proper scaling of codes Proper use of Computational Resources Proper use of your time…
To download the new version of the QE.py code, click here: www.levilentz.com/Codes/QE.py Hello All, As I read about the new discovery of gravity waves at MIT (check it out: http://news.mit.edu/2016/ligo-first-detection-gravitational-waves-0211), I figured I could make myself feel a bit more impactful by adding into my QE module one other important feature. Recently I have been…
Hello All, Welcome to another post in my publishing my work in my perpetual pursuit of get better at coding in the object oriented (OO) coding paradigm and its application(s) to computational material science. Recently I have been working on iOS app development, and it is amazing how important it is to understand OO coding…
Hello All, Sorry this one is a bit late, classes are really picking up. As part of my roles in the Kolpak Group, I am responsible for administration of all of our computational resources at MIT. We have one large 32 node cluster, with 16 processors/node as well as several other smaller clusters. We have…
Hello All, Week two of my personal post-a-week challenge. I have been practicing automating my workflow and I have another quick script. Using my QE module that I talked about last week, I made a quick script that will develop the SCF, NSCF, DOS, and PDOS files. These are the files needed for a density…
Hello All, Sorry for the large delays between updates to this blog. I have been really busy with school, and I will make it a habit to write a weekly blog post from here on it. I just added a calendar event to remind me next week. I have been using python for a while…
Hello All, Just a quick update that you might find interesting. I have just made this python script that will calculate the bandgap of your system from the *.save directory of a QE calculation. This is pretty straightforward and was created mainly for the new users of this wonderful world of computational material science. If…