[Wien] Characters of atoms in the fold2bloch bands.
Oleg Rubel
rubelo at mcmaster.ca
Thu May 14 15:49:13 CEST 2020
Thank you very much, Peter, for pointing the way!
case.normsoup/dn is exactly what we need. I just looked up the norms for
the valence band edge of GaAs (x4 degenerate states at Gamma). Here they
are from case.normsoup
0.907085541766E+00 0.433544748129E+00 0.499707182587E+00
0.159662527518E+00
and case.normsodn
0.929144582341E-01 0.566455251871E+00 0.500292817413E+00
0.840337472482E+00
Pairs add up to 1 as expected for a norm. Each spin channel adds up to 2
indicating no dominant up/dn component (something I would expect for
GaAs). But individual norms can be very different from 0.5, which needs
an action.
> Eventually one could simply add the spectral weights, but probably one
> should weight them by the spin-up/dn norms in the case.normsoup/dn
> files. In that way one would get a proper representation (and eg. a
> small spectral weight in spin-dn does not matter if also its norm is
> small, i.e. if this eigenvalue is mainly spin-up.
This can certainly be done, but it would be convenient if fold2Bloch can
do it "under the hood". Files case.vectorsoup, case.vectorsodn,
case.normsoup can be read simultaneously producing a single output file.
Best regards
Oleg
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