I suppose in that previous work they managed to get a reasonable electronic structure before running AIMD
If you have same coordinates and simulation cell, you should also be able to reproduce their results.
However, if the coordinates are not consistent with the simulation cell, there are for sure problems.
In the paper the only information about the settings are basis set, functional and PW cutoff, that by the way is 600 Ry and not 300.
Other settings and parameters might need to be adjusted.
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