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and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Thank you
for your kind replies. Let me ask a more general question which I think about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">I want to
calculate the band structure of GaAs (FCC structure) in a simple cubic lattice
cell with eight atoms (ibrav =1). If I specify the k points </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">in
units of 2pi/a (K_POINTS tpiba_b), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">the high symmetry points in Brillioun zone of
which cell I should specify in the input file, FCC (ibrav =2) or those of SC (ibrav=1)
lattice structure?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">If I specify
the k points in in <span style="color:red">crystal coordinates</span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">(K_POINTS
crystal_b), then of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;">which
cell I should specify the k points in the input files, FCC or SC lattice structure.</span></p>
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advance.</span></p>
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Evan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">USC, China<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="position:relative;zoom:1"></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2016-10-30 02:17:33, "stefano de gironcoli" <degironc@sissa.it> wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Evan,<br>
GaAS structure is zincblend (2 atoms per cell). its X point is
indeed 2pi/a(1,0,0).<br>
if you choose to compute GaAs in a SC cell (8 atoms pr cell)
then that point is indeed equivalent to Gamma. The zone boundary
of the SC cell is pi/a(1,0,0) but this of course does not
correspond to the X point of the zincblend structure.<br>
HTH<br>
stefano<br>
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On 29/10/2016 16:00, evan wrote:<br>
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calculated
the band structure of GaAs in a simple cubic lattice
cell (ibrav=1), I searched
from the internet the coordinates of X-point in the
first Brillouin zone are 2pi/a(0,0,1)
or 2pi/a(1,0,0), but both results show that band gap
occurs at G and X points
simultaneously, it seems to me that the X is equivalent
to G, can you tell me the
correct X point coordinates which give me the reasonable
result. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;
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files
and results are attached, you can show what is wrong in
the input file.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;
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