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[Xavier Gonze <xavier.gonze@uclouvain.be>]

On 25 Dec 2009, at 17:03, hichem.bouderba@gmail.com wrote:

> hello,
> it's about k kpoint grid:
> suppose I define the k point grid with ngkpt array I will get a  
> total number of
> ngkpt(1) x ngkpt(2) x ngkpt(3) k-point.
> now if I let abinit to chose a k point grid for me via kptrlen. it  
> gives a
> super cell in the real space defined with kptrlatt which is not,  
> generally,
> diagonal. so how one can get the total number of k-point as nkpt  
> gives only the
> number in the IBZ.

It is the determinant of  kptrlatt
X.