This year I participated to the cake contest organized in Marseille for the PI-day. Although my cake the PI-ramisù has reported considerable success I did not win the competition. I enjoyed the PI-day, next year I will try again to win the competition with a better cake. Here below a photo of the other cakes. During… Read More
Here I present the BSE input file for yambo and I will discuss the meaning of each parameter. For a discussion on convergence issues see my post: Reasonable parameters for Yambo calculations. To generate this input type yambo -o b -k sex -y d -p p -V qp. I will not discuss the parameters relative… Read More
Example of a yambo input file for GW calculation in a solid. In order to generate the following input file you can use the command “yambo -g n -p p -V par” with yambo 4.0.2 (and with yambo 3.4.2 “yambo -g n -p p”). gw0 # [R GW] GoWo Quasiparticle energy levels ppa #… Read More
The GDR-REST (Research group on Theoretical Spectroscopy) is organizing its first general meeting from the 23rd to the 27th of May 2016, here the website for all details. The GDR-REST meeting aims to bring together different communities of theoretical spectroscopy which are/were historically separated, but unified under a very precise and important subject: the excited-states… Read More
Here I report some advices to choose reasonable parameters in order to converge different kind of calculations with the Yambo code. The following parameters are a reasonable recommendation. However you have to remember that convergence can be different from system to system, so you should check your calculations and not use the following parameters blindly…. Read More
Since October 2015 I’m in charge of the Theory Seminars at CINAM. If you are in Marseille and you are interested in Condensed Matter Physics, have a look to our seminar page. We organize a new seminar every two weeks, with internal or invited speakers. If you would like to present your research in our… Read More
We are organizing a mini-workshop on electron correlation, to be held in Toulouse, NOVEMBER 2-3 2015. This event will be an informal workshop of about 20-30 people, with plenty of time dedicated to discussion before, during, after a talk. We will have only a few talks (about 6-7) over the two days. The talks are… Read More
This is my small collection of Quantum Espresso (PWSCF) and Yambo input files that I used in my papers or for different testing purposes. I cannot give any warranty whatsoever these files are correct and fit your actual needs. Carbon nanotubes: 7×7, 4×2, 10×10, 1×10 Carbon nanoribbons: ANGR7 Diamond Donor Acceptor Complexes from ref. Appl. Phys. Lett…. Read More
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) is the National French Agency for Research. It is an independent agency created in 2005 that funds scientific teams, both public and private, in the form of short-term research contracts. In general the idea to fund research on projects is not bad but at present ANR is not working … Read More
When in 2001 the biochemist Patrick O. Brown and the computational biologist Michael Eisen decided to open their non-profit foundation PLOS (Public Library of Science) to create a scientific journal that leaves free access to all articles published, no one believed they would have succeed. But they were tenacious and with the help of the… Read More