Updated 03/26/2010 Installation: =================================================== Download and unpack espresso-4.0.3 from the QE-forge website at http://www.pwscf.org. Copy EPW/ into the espresso-4.0.3 directory, then execute the following commands from espresso-4.0.3/: ./configure make ph cd EPW/src make This will create an epw.x executable in EPW/bin, which can be used with pw.x and ph.x to run the examples in the EPW/examples directory. Known bugs/issues: =================================================== When performing calculations on a system WIHTOUT inversion symmetry, the electron-phonon matrix elements for the -q of the star are not computed correctly. Time reversal symmetry must not be used. Instead the coarse mesh phonons need to be calculated explicitly for q and -q at certain phonon wavevectors. Ultrasoft pseudopotentials have not been tested, although they have been implemented. Particularly the wannier90 conversion of uspp wavefunctions seems to be incorrect. Currently there is no parallelization over G-vectors. Practically this means that in order to run EPW in parallel, NPOOL=NPROC must be satisfied. Troubleshooting: =================================================== The program seems to hang on the "Running Wannier90" line ------------------------------------------------ As of version 1.1, W90 sends the STOP command when it encounters a fatal error, thus not exiting smoothly. Check the end of the prefix.wout for specific errors. Creating kgmap seems to take forever ------------------------------------------------ Yes it does. It is currenlty not parallelized. For a system with over 10^5 G-vectors, the kgmap may take several hours. The lambda's and linewidths of the phonon selfenergy are identically zero ------------------------------------------------ Are you performing calculations on a metal? Have you correctly set the 'nbndskip' parameter? What is Ef and the DOS at Ef?