In this tutorial how to draw a band structure is described by taking gold (Au) in the face centered cubic structure as an example
First, perform an SCF calculation to get the charge density.
&control calculation='scf' restart_mode='from_scratch', pseudo_dir = '/home/ikutaro/QE/pseudo/' outdir='./tmp' prefix='au' tprnfor = .true. tstress = .true. forc_conv_thr = 1.d-4 nstep=10000 / &system ibrav = 2 A = 4.00 !A = 4.079 nat = 1 ntyp = 1 ecutwfc = 40.0 ecutrho = 400.0 occupations='smearing' smearing='mp' degauss=0.01 nbnd=24 !input_dft='vdW-DF2-B86R' !assume_isolated = 'esm', esm_bc='bc1' / &electrons diagonalization='cg' conv_thr = 1.0e-12 mixing_beta = 0.1 / &ions ion_dynamics='bfgs' / &cell cell_dynamics='bfgs' / ATOMIC_SPECIES Au 0.0000 au_pbe_v1.uspp.F.UPF ATOMIC_POSITIONS (crystal) Au 0.000000000000 0.000000000000 0.00000000000 K_POINTS (automatic) 16 16 16 0 0 0