[Wien] Fwd: Fwd: how to set a particular sequence of k-path

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Oct 17 19:11:26 CEST 2020


But your k-mesh is different from that of the paper.

You have a couple of k-points between X and Y (and others=, while in the 
paper there are none.

If you really want to reproduce his nonsense k-mesh, than you have to 
delete these k-points from case.klist_band.

Am 17.10.2020 um 18:49 schrieb fatima DFT:
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> Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wien] Fwd: how to set a particular sequence of k-path
> To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at 
> <mailto:wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at>>
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> 
> I wanted to reproduce the data from a research paper and the authors 
> have followed the path that I have mentioned in my previous post and 
> sent you a plot for the same.
> 
> Attached is the ps file.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:59 PM Peter Blaha 
> <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>> wrote:
> 
>     First of all I don't understand your choice of the k-path.
> 
>     G-X and Y-G
>     G-T and U-G and G-V
> 
>     are identical (equivalent) directions and the bandstructures are the
>     same.  Why would one plot this ?
> 
>     You can use only the unique directions (X-G-Z-R-G_T), but twice as many
>     points to make crossings/non-crossings more clesar.
> 
>     In any case, a wien2k band structure makes small empty space when a
>     discontinuity (like Z-R) occurs and usually labels both k-points.
>     How does the ps file look like ?
> 
>     Am 17.10.2020 um 18:08 schrieb fatima DFT:
>      > Dear Sir
>      > Thank you very much for your answer in the mailing list.
>      >
>      >
>      >     I have tried to send an image in the mailing list for a clear
>      >     explanation but may be due to file size issue it failed with
>     below
>      >     message:
>      >
>      >
>      >     Your message to Wien awaits moderator approval.
>      >
>      > So I am sending you my email here. You can reply in the mailing list.
>      >
>      > *What I am asking is attached here. I am not getting some high
>     symmetry
>      > points at a particular point.*
>      > *See X|Y ; Z|R; T|U points.*
>      >
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>      > Date: Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 9:32 PM
>      > Subject: Re: [Wien] how to set a particular sequence of k-path
>      > To: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users
>     <wien at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at
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>      >
>      >
>      > Thank you Sir for your response
>      >
>      > What I am asking is attached here. I am not getting some high
>     symmetry
>      > points at a particular point.
>      > See X|Y ; Z|R; T|U points.
>      >
>      > Thank You
>      > Fatima
>      >
>      > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:39 PM Peter Blaha
>      > <pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>     <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>
>     <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
>     <mailto:pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     You put all your k-points into case.klist_band (or let
>     xcrysden do it
>      >     for you.
>      >
>      >     The you run the bandstructure task in w2web or from the
>     command line:
>      >
>      >     x lapw1 -band
>      >     x spaghetti   (it creates case.insp if not present)
>      >     edit case.insp  and put EF into it. Also select
>     lines/dots/color,...)
>      >     x spaghetti
>      >     It produces a plot   case.sphaghetti_ps with vertical lines.
>      >     Alternatively, you can use xmgrace to plot the agr file (also
>     with
>      >     vertical lines).
>      >
>      >     If you really want to use case.spaghetti_ene and plot it with
>     gnuplot,
>      >     you have to write it yourself. But I would hardly know why
>     you want to
>      >     do this.
>      >
>      >     Am 16.10.2020 um 17:57 schrieb fatima DFT:
>      >      > Dear Sir
>      >      > How I can choose k-path like below
>      >      > Γ—X|Y—Γ—Z|R—Γ—T|U—Γ—V
>      >      >
>      >      > I mean the vertical lines.
>      >      >
>      >      > I got all the points in BZ but I am wondering how these
>     vertical
>      >     lines
>      >      > are defined.
>      >      >
>      >      > Thank you very much
>      >      >
>      >      > Fatima
>      >      >
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