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Dear all user:
 i have calculte the total energies of BaTiO3 under various k point.
i found the total energies increase with number of k point increasing, which 
is different with the tendency in TuTorial wich the energies decrease with 
number of K point increasing. my pseudopotential is TM potential which is 
downloaded in abinit web. Furthmore, i found my cell parameter after 
optimization is lager than the experimental cell parameters within LDA. 
 please tell me if my results is incurrate.why the problem appears? 
there is my input file as follows:
ndtset 5
iscf   5  
ngkpt1 4 4 4
ngkpt2 5 5 5
ngkpt3 6 6 6
ngkpt4 7 7 7
ngkpt5 8 8 8
ecut 35
#Common data
 kptopt   1
 toldfe   1.0d-12
 acell 3.994 3.994 3.994 angstrom
 angdeg 90 90 90
  natom   5
  nband   30
 nshiftk   1
  nstep   700
 ntypat   3
  typat   1 2 3 3 3 
   xred  0.0  0.0  0.0
         0.5 0.5 0.5
         0.5 0.5 0
         0.5 0 0.5
         0 0.5 0.5
 znucl 56 22 8  
diemac 12
diemix 0.5
total energy can be found below:
3 3 3 -7.17282528491798E+01
4 4 4 -7.17263885360737E+01
5 5 5 -7.17259943435173E+01
6 6 6 -7.17259215384533E+01
7 7 7 -7.17259045664537E+01
8 8 8 -7.17258929001672E+01