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[james raynolds <jamesraynolds@yahoo.com>]

Matthieu,

Actually I'm no longer having problems with the code
and all of the steps ran happily for Si even though
technically it is an insulator.  My primary interest
here is for the matrix elements.

Also, is it hard coded to get only the gkk matrix
elements at the "fermi surface"?

Jim

--- Matthieu Verstraete <verstraete@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>
wrote:

> 
> Hi James,
> 
> you'll have to be more specific in where it stops
> and what it tells you. 3 q 
> points is awfully little, and I'd be surprised if
> you were converged.
> 
> For Si, an additional problem may be that you have
> an insulator (no really!). 
> Since it finds no DOS at the Fermi level, it will
> output 0 (even if the gap is 
> pretty small). In the wire case, I realize that
> things will be different, but 
> keep it in mind and get the electron band structures
> first.
> 
> Eliashberg applicable is a shortcut too. The
> treatment of the Coulomb 
> interaction is still primitive, and the effect
> should be much worse in 1D.
> 
> bye
> 
> Matthieu
> 
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