[Wien] 2D Fermi surface plot

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Aug 11 13:42:54 CEST 2011


> According to the manual, the unit of x-len and y-len is bohr^(-1), thus originally I think it is the reciprocal lattice. But when I set x-len=0.3382
> , I get very small plot. Thus, I think x-len and y-len is the size of the plot. Actually both
> x-len=10 and x-len=20 can work, and x-len=20 give twice bigger plot than x-len=10. So I confuse why you said "the length of rec.space must be ok"?
>   >  19 13 0.33820 0.19526 27 23 0 0

Of course, you can scale the two numbers x-len, y-len, but it is important that you keep
the ratio of the two length correctly. (Otherwise you get a square, but it
should be a rectangle,.....)
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