Dear Pascal,<div><br></div><div> What you found is related to the Brillouin zone folding. You can find more details in Roarld Hoffmann's book: Solids and surfaces. The band structure using the primitive cell is correct.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Yun<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:05 PM, pascal boulet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pascal.boulet@univ-amu.fr" target="_blank">pascal.boulet@univ-amu.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
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We are facing a problem with differences in electronic band structures when we use primitive or conventional unit cells.<br>
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The structure we are dealing with is Mg2Si for which the primitive UC is:<br>
ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>
Si 0.000000000 0.000000000 0.000000000<br>
Mg 0.250000000 0.250000000 0.250000000<br>
Mg 0.750000000 0.750000000 0.750000000<br>
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The cubic space group is 225, a=12.0421785 bohr and Mg2Si is FCC.<br>
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The rest of the input is (I make it short):<br>
K_POINTS crystal<br>
120<br>
0.5000000000 0.2500000000 0.7500000000 1.0<br>
0.5000000000 0.2600000000 0.7400000000 1.0<br>
0.5000000000 0.2700000000 0.7300000000 1.0<br>
etc.<br>
calculation = 'bands',<br>
celldm(1) =12.0421785,<br>
nat = 3,<br>
ibrav = 2,<br>
<br>
<br>
If we use this UC we get a indirect band gap (G-X), which is correct. If we now use the conventional UC (12 atoms in the cube) we get a direct band gap at Gamma. In this case, we are using the following input file :<br>
calculation = 'bands',<br>
celldm(1) = 1,<br>
nat = 12,<br>
ibrav = 0,<br>
<br>
K_POINTS crystal<br>
126<br>
.0 .0 .0 1.<br>
.020 .020 .020 1.<br>
.040 .040 .040 1.<br>
.060 .060 .060 1.<br>
.080 .080 .080 1.<br>
.100 .100 .100 1.<br>
.120 .120 .120 1.<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
CELL_PARAMETERS<br>
12.03517200 0.0 0.0<br>
0.0 12.03517200 0.0<br>
0.0 0.0 12.03517200<br>
ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>
Si 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000<br>
Si 0.50000 0.50000 0.00000<br>
Si 0.00000 0.50000 0.50000<br>
Si 0.50000 0.00000 0.50000<br>
Mg 0.25 0.25 0.25<br>
Mg 0.75 0.75 0.75<br>
Mg 0.25 0.25 0.75<br>
Mg 0.25 0.75 0.25<br>
Mg 0.75 0.25 0.25<br>
Mg 0.25 0.75 0.75<br>
Mg 0.75 0.25 0.75<br>
Mg 0.75 0.75 0.25<br>
<br>
Could you please tell us what we are doing wrong in the second calculation?<br>
<br>
Thank you for your response.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Pascal<br>
<br>
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