Pardon my naive question, but have you "folded" your results? That is,
band structure performed on a bigger cell than the primitive one will
have more bands in a smaller BZ. So, if you want to compare the results
with the primitive cell, you have to "fold" them.
hopping I made myself clear...
Emmanuel
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Dear all
I have in mind the same question as Jedo's.
I think the initail results of band calculations would look
different between the primitive cell and the conventional cell. This is
because the two cells have the Brillouin zones of different sizes and
shapes so that the k-points sampling used in the band calculation are
different. However, since we perform the band calculation for the same
crystal, both results should lead to identical intepretation. The
problem is how? Is there other points I am missing?
All comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Thanusit Burinprakhon
On November 23, 2009 10:39:13 AM ICT, "Jedo"
<jedokim@umich.edu> wrote:
Hi
all,
I am trying to compare if I get the same result for primitive cells and
conventional cell when performing the electronic band structure
calculation. I may be totally wrong because I am just starting the
calculation. I am using two different structures, one for conventional
cell and one for primitive cell. Shouldn't the following structure give
me the same results? Not sure why I'm getting a totally different band
structures. Please let me know if I'm just stupid. :) Thanks!!
Primitive cell
#Definition of the unit cell
-> acell 3*10.217 # This is equivalent to 10.217 10.217 10.217
-> rprim 0.0 0.5 0.5 # FCC primitive vectors (to be scaled by acell)
-> 0.5 0.0 0.5
-> 0.5 0.5 0.0
->
-> #Definition of the atom types
-> ntypat 1 # There is only one type of atom
-> znucl 14 # The keyword "znucl" refers to the atomic number of the
-> # possible type(s) of atom. The pseudopotential(s)
-> # mentioned in the "files" file must correspond
-> # to the type(s) of atom. Here, the only type is
-> Silicon.
->
->
-> #Definition of the atoms
-> natom 2 # There are two atoms
-> typat 1 1 # They both are of type 1, that is, Silicon.
-> xred # This keyword indicate that the location of the atoms
-> # will follow, one triplet of number for each atom
-> 0.0 0.0 0.0 # Triplet giving the REDUCED coordinate of atom 1.
-> 1/4 1/4 1/4 # Triplet giving the REDUCED coordinate of atom 2.
Conventional Cell
#Definition of the unit cell
acell 3*10.217 # This is equivalent to 10.18 10.18 10.18
rprim 1.0 0.0 0.0 # FCC primitive vectors (to be scaled by acell)
0.0 1.0 0.0
0.0 0.0 1.0
#Definition of the atom types
ntypat 1 # There is only one type of atom
znucl 14 # The keyword "znucl" refers to the atomic number of the
# possible type(s) of atom. The pseudopotential(s)
# mentioned in the "files" file must correspond
# to the type(s) of atom. Here, the only type is Silicon.
#Definition of the atoms
natom 8 # There are two atoms
typat 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 # They both are of type 1, that is, Silicon.
xred # This keyword indicate that the location of the atoms
# will follow, one triplet of number for each atom
0.0 0.0 0.0
1/4 1/4 1/4
1/2 1/2 0.0
0.0 1/2 1/2
1/2 0.0 1/2
3/4 3/4 1/4
1/4 3/4 3/4
3/4 1/2 3/4
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Email: jedokim@umich.edu, jdzbox@hotmail.com
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