Band gap renormalization in diamond using one-shot method

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Task

Calculating the zero-point renormalization of the band gap in cubic diamond carbon.

Input

POSCAR

C1  [FCC,FCC,cF8] (STD_PRIM doi:10.1016
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   C
  128
Direct
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KPOINTS

K-Points
 0
Gamma
 1  1  1
 0  0  0

INCAR

general:
 System = cd-C
 PREC = Accurate
 ALGO = FAST
 ISMEAR = 0 
 SIGMA = 0.1;
 IBRION = 6
 PHON_LMC = .TRUE.
 PHON_NSTRUCT = 0
 PHON_NTLIST = 1
 PHON_TLIST = 0.0

The tags with "PHON_" control the electron phonon options. PHON_LMC enables electron phonon calculations using Monte Carlo sampling. By selecting PHON_NSTRUCT=0 a one-shot configuration is obtained. The PHON_NTLIST selects the number of temperatures for which the structure with the one shot calculation is obtained. This requires also the list of temperatures PHON_TLIST which have exact that number of elements.
IBRION=6 is selected to obtain the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the dynamical matrix at the Gamma point.

Calculation

This example will use a one-shot method, where only a single structure comprising the electron-phonon interactions is required for a given temperature.

The calculation consists of the following steps:

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