[Wien] FSGEN

Shen Li Qiu qiu at fau.edu
Thu Aug 14 20:17:22 CEST 2003


Dear Dr. Smith,
>What is the meaning of negative vkz? 
>I suppose you mean for example -56.88422 (first row) 
>You are looking at the wrong column.

I'm talking about colum 3 which is vkz. I try to calculate FS of TiC in the
(001) plane, i.e., in the Gamma-X-XP-K-Gamma plane, why should vkz be
negative?

Regards!

Shen Li Qiu

At 09:41 AM 8/14/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Shen 
>
>A few comments that I hope will get you going further.
>
>(1)  Explanation: What you are doing is to run a band structure
>calculation for many points on a k space plane to produce the
>corresponding energy values (eigenvalue). You then have to use your
>graphics software to produce a contour plot (only zero value for the
>Fermi surface). What this means is that you have to be sure that you
>include all of the bands that contain all occurrences of (close to)the
>value zero (which band you have is given by the band index at the
>beginning of the block in the output file; and the energy value is the
>eigenvalue).
>
>(2) vk(1,jk),vk(2,jk),vk(3,jk),xval(jk),eigen(je,jk)  
>These are respectively: the 3 co-ordinates of the  k vector, the modulus
>of the k vector and the energy eigenvalue 
>
>What is the meaning of negative vkz? 
>I suppose you mean for example -56.88422 (first row) 
>You are looking at the wrong column.
>-56.88422 This is the negative value of eigen(je,jk).
>
>(It is negative with a large modulus, because the band index counting
>starts for the bottom and goes up - for the fermi surface you need to be
>looking for (close to) zeros. That is for much higher band indices).
>
>Hope that this can get you started
>
>Andrew Smith
>
>Shen Li Qiu wrote:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>>  I still have some questions about FSGEN. Take TiC as an example. I choose
>> the plane Gamma-X-XP-K-Gamma and 40 points in both kx and ky directions.
>> 
>> (1) UG says (page 128) "Run spaghetti with input-options such that it
>> prints the bands which intersect EF to case.spaghetti.ene (line 6, see
>> section.8.3). I followed the instruction in sec. 8.3 and 7.5 but it doesn't
>> make any chnage in case.spaghetti.ene. What input-options should be used?
>> 
>> (2) According to spag.f and get_k.f the values of each row in
>> case.spaghetti.ene are vk(1,jk),vk(2,jk),vk(3,jk),xval(jk),eigen(je,jk) and
>> vk1=vkx, vk2=vky, vk3=vkz. The data of bandindex 1 in cTiC.spaghetti.ene
>> are attached at the end of this email.
>> What is the meaning of negative vkz? What is the physicsl meaning of xval?
>> 
>> (3) Dr. Blaha metioned in his email of 7/29/03 that "You can find it
>> (x-len, y-len) either from one of the vk-components or from the distance
>> from the 'beginning' in the 4th column......First follow from Gamma to the
>> end of the first line (x-direction), then look more at the end, when x is
>> back at the "zeroth" value, but y is at a maximum".
>>  From the attached data how to see that "x is back at the 'zeroth' value,
>> but y is at a maximum". The value of xval in colum 4 changes monotonously,
>> how to determine x-len and y-len "from the distance from the 'beginning' in
>> the 4th column"? I'm missing something here, please let me know. I'd like
>> to know how to get x-len and y-len correctly.
>> 
>> (4) Please give me some references on FS calculations using WIEN2k.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Shen Li Qiu
>> 
>>  bandindex:           1
>>    0.00000   0.00000   0.00000   0.00000 -56.88422
>>    0.06202   0.06202  -0.06202   0.10741 -56.88063
>>    0.12404   0.12404  -0.12404   0.21484 -56.87168
>>    0.18605   0.18605  -0.18605   0.32225 -56.85943
>>    0.24807   0.24807  -0.24807   0.42967 -56.84720
>>    0.31009   0.31009  -0.31009   0.53709 -56.83783
>>    0.37211   0.37211  -0.37211   0.64451 -56.83446
>>    0.12404   0.00000   0.00000   1.71864 -56.87950
>>    0.18605   0.06202  -0.06202   1.82605 -56.87247
>>    0.24807   0.12404  -0.12404   1.93347 -56.86136
>>    0.31009   0.18605  -0.18605   2.04089 -56.84905
>>    0.37211   0.24807  -0.24807   2.14830 -56.83906
>>    0.43412   0.31009  -0.31009   2.25573 -56.83379
>>    0.49614   0.37211  -0.37211   2.36314 -56.83491
>>    0.55816   0.43412  -0.43412   2.47056 -56.84193
>>    0.62017   0.49614  -0.49614   2.57798 -56.85324
>>    0.68220   0.55816  -0.55816   2.68540 -56.86538
>>    0.74421   0.62017  -0.62017   2.79281 -56.87543
>>    0.24807   0.00000   0.00000   3.86694 -56.86768
>>    0.31009   0.06202  -0.06202   3.97436 -56.85854
>>    0.37211   0.12404  -0.12404   4.08178 -56.84759
>>    0.43412   0.18605  -0.18605   4.18920 -56.83750
>>    0.49614   0.24807  -0.24807   4.29661 -56.83111
>>    0.55816   0.31009  -0.31009   4.40403 -56.83044
>>    0.62017   0.37211  -0.37211   4.51145 -56.83518
>>    0.68220   0.43412  -0.43412   4.61887 -56.84439
>>    0.74421   0.49614  -0.49614   4.72629 -56.85548
>>    0.37211   0.00000   0.00000   5.80042 -56.85189
>>    0.43412   0.06202  -0.06202   5.90783 -56.84267
>>    0.49614   0.12404  -0.12404   6.01526 -56.83382
>>    0.55816   0.18605  -0.18605   6.12267 -56.82755
>>    0.62017   0.24807  -0.24807   6.23009 -56.82570
>>    0.68220   0.31009  -0.31009   6.33751 -56.82846
>>    0.74421   0.37211  -0.37211   6.44493 -56.83547
>>    0.49614   0.00000   0.00000   7.51906 -56.83603
>>    0.55816   0.06202  -0.06202   7.62647 -56.82911
>>    0.62017   0.12404  -0.12404   7.73389 -56.82390
>>    0.68220   0.18605  -0.18605   7.84131 -56.82206
>>    0.74421   0.24807  -0.24807   7.94872 -56.82357
>>    0.62017   0.00000   0.00000   9.02286 -56.82451
>>    0.68220   0.06202  -0.06202   9.13028 -56.82124
>>    0.74421   0.12404  -0.12404   9.23770 -56.82037
>>    0.74421   0.00000   0.00000   9.41311 -56.82015
>>    0.24807   0.12404   0.00000  10.48725 -56.86448
>>    0.31009   0.18605  -0.06202  10.59466 -56.85338
>>    0.37211   0.24807  -0.12404  10.70208 -56.84220
>>    0.43412   0.31009  -0.18605  10.80950 -56.83394
>>    0.49614   0.37211  -0.24807  10.91692 -56.83098
>>    0.37211   0.12404   0.00000  11.99105 -56.84945
>>    0.43412   0.18605  -0.06202  12.09846 -56.83947
>>    0.49614   0.24807  -0.12404  12.20588 -56.83132
>>    0.55816   0.31009  -0.18605  12.31330 -56.82734
>>    0.62017   0.37211  -0.24807  12.42071 -56.82848
>>    0.68220   0.43412  -0.31009  12.52814 -56.83418
>>    0.74421   0.49614  -0.37211  12.63555 -56.84340
>>    0.49614   0.12404   0.00000  13.70969 -56.83488
>>    0.55816   0.18605  -0.06202  13.81710 -56.82778
>>    0.62017   0.24807  -0.12404  13.92452 -56.82373
>>    0.68220   0.31009  -0.18605  14.03194 -56.82359
>>    0.74421   0.37211  -0.24807  14.13935 -56.82747
>>    0.62017   0.12404   0.00000  15.21349 -56.82414
>>    0.68220   0.18605  -0.06202  15.32090 -56.82115
>>    0.74421   0.24807  -0.12404  15.42832 -56.82093
>>    0.74421   0.12404   0.00000  15.60373 -56.82017
>>    0.49614   0.24807   0.00000  15.88108 -56.83144
>>    0.55816   0.31009  -0.06202  15.98850 -56.82565
>>    0.62017   0.37211  -0.12404  16.09591 -56.82351
>>    0.62017   0.24807   0.00000  16.27133 -56.82304
>>    0.68220   0.31009  -0.06202  16.37875 -56.82074
>>    0.74421   0.37211  -0.12404  16.48617 -56.82177
>>    0.74421   0.24807   0.00000  16.66158 -56.81994
>>    0.74421   0.37211   0.00000  16.78562 -56.81961
>> 
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