<div dir="ltr"><pre>Dear Wien2k users,
Hello, I am running wien version 14.2 on linux compiled with gfortran.<br><br></pre><pre>Right now I am trying to calculate the momentum matrix elements of Al2O3 sapphire.<br>I have managed to get some results but some part of the results worry me that I may have done it wrong.<br>I am particularly interested in the matrix elements between the highest valence and the lowest conduction band.<br></pre><pre>The following is part of the results that I have obtained along the Gamma-A direction that I want to obtain the results for.<br><br>36 37 -0.475170000000000 2.31369000000000e-11 0.464830760000000<br>36 37 -0.475054000000000 2.33653000000000e-11 0.464900790000000<br>36 37 -0.474937000000000 2.35933000000000e-11 0.464971500000000<br>36 37 0.474819000000000 -2.38216000000000e-11 0.465042880000000<br>36 37 0.474699000000000 -2.40493000000000e-11 0.465114930000000<br>36 37 0.474579000000000 -2.42775000000000e-11 0.465187660000000<br>36 37 -0.474457000000000 2.45054000000000e-11 0.465261060000000<br>36 37 0.474334000000000 -2.47330000000000e-11 0.465335140000000<br>36 37 -0.474210000000000 2.49604000000000e-11 0.465409880000000<br>36 37 0.474085000000000 -2.51880000000000e-11 0.465485300000000<br>36 37 0.473959000000000 -2.54153000000000e-11 0.465561390000000<br>36 37 0.473832000000000 -2.56427000000000e-11 0.465638150000000<br>36 37 -0.473704000000000 2.58700000000000e-11 0.465715590000000<br>36 37 -7.66604000000000e-13 -8.84059000000000e-18 0.465756180000000<br>36 37 1.32939000000000e-11 -3.78270000000000e-19 0.465793770000000<br>36 37 -6.20312000000000e-13 -1.29951000000000e-17 0.465831680000000<br>36 37 -6.78245000000000e-12 -2.77438000000000e-17 0.465869910000000<br>36 37 1.13307000000000e-11 -2.48713000000000e-17 0.465908460000000<br>36 37 -2.17293000000000e-12 5.12272000000000e-17 0.465947330000000<br>36 37 7.86763000000000e-12 -1.91488000000000e-17 0.465986520000000<br><br></pre><pre>36 and 37 are the band index for my valence and conduction band. Each row refers to a k point along the G-A path and I have 501 rows in total.<br></pre><pre>I also eliminated the x,y components and leaved only the z component plus the energy difference.<br></pre><pre>One minor concern is that the signs of the values change and this doesn't seem to be right.<br></pre><pre>Another concern is that as can be seen from the real part of z above, the value suddenly drops to less than 1e-10 order.<br></pre><pre>Although not shown here, at the same k point, the real part of the x component showed the opposite behaviour,<br></pre><pre>increasing from less that 1e-10 to about 0.4. This abrupt change doesn't seem to be right either.<br><br></pre><pre>The procedure went like this.<br></pre><pre>run_lapw<br></pre><pre>create case.klist_band<br></pre><pre>x lapw2 -fermi<br></pre><pre>x lapw1 -band<br></pre><pre>x optic<br><br></pre><pre>I have tried this for different k mesh by using x kgen and run_lapw repeatedly from 1000 to 15000 and the results only had minor differences.<br></pre><pre>Any help would be really appreciated.<br></pre><pre>Thank you very much in advance.<br><br></pre><pre>Yong Woo Kim<br></pre></div>