<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear all'</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I'm calculating the Z2 Topological Index for Bi2Se3 using Quantum Espresso By means of a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">Z</span><sub style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">2</sub><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">-package.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">Z</span><sub style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">2</sub><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">-package is a </span><span style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000">Post processing tool for computing the Z</font></span><sub style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">2</sub><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">invariant </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">using the output of first-principles packages,</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">which </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Quantum Espresso application was developed by Davide Ceresoli.</span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">After finishing calculation It gives this Message,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> The parity for the current TRS surface is: -1.000</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> The Z2 invariant for the current TRS surface is: -1</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> [A. A. Soluyanov and D. Vanderbilt, Phys Rev B 83, 235401 (2011)]</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">I've checked the Subroutine "<font color="#000000">z2_c_phase.f90" which calculates the Z2 index but I haven't found any comment about the output of this subroutine.</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">So I've decided to ask my question from Dear QE Users. I'll appreciate if anyone can give me a guidance about this topic. </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">My question is : I want to know That does this message means "system in in Nontrivial Topological phase?" </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">-- <br>PhD. student of Physics<br>Physics Department of Damghan University <br>Tel : +98 938 903 6759<br>P.O.Box:36716-41167<br>Damghan, Iran</div></div></div></div></div>
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