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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Evan,<br>
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      On 31/10/2016 08:51, evan wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Dear Stefano </span><span
            style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Thank you for
            your
            reply, but I do not understand what’s you meaning in the
            last letter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">What I want to
            know
            is that when the lattice structure of GaAs (fcc) is
            different from the simulation
            cell (sc, ibrav =1 in my calculations), the coordinates of
            high symmetry points
            in Brillioun zone of which lattice structure (fcc or those
            of sc) I should specify
            in the PWscf input file?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">I am not familiar
            with this issue, but it is important for my study. Thank you
            for your patience.</span></p>
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    then I would suggest that you get familiar with the concepts of real
    and reciprocal space, supercells and refolding of points in the
    Brillouin zone.<br>
    In your calculation 16 valence bands are computed. Did you wonder
    why and what they are ?   <br>
    The coordinates of the X point are not your problem.<br>
    <br>
    regards,<br>
    <br>
    stefano<br>
    ---<br>
    On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!],
    "Pray, Mr.<br>
    Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
    answers<br>
    come out?"  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion
    of<br>
    ideas that could provoke such a question.<br>
                    -- Charles Babbage<br>
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            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Regards</span><span
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        <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
            font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">Evan</span><span
            style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 宋体;" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;"
          lang="EN-US">USC,
          China</span><br>
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        At 2016-10-31 14:32:53, "Stefano de Gironcoli"
        <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:degironc@sissa.it"><degironc@sissa.it></a> wrote:<br>
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          <div>The one you are using: ibrav=1.</div>
          <div id="AppleMailSignature">Do not expect to see a band
            structure similar to the usual one tho</div>
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            stefano 
            <div>(sent from my phone)</div>
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            On 31 Oct 2016, at 03:03, evan <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:ewan26@126.com">ewan26@126.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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                    lang="EN-US">Dear Stefano
                    and </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"
                    lang="EN-US">Thank you
                    for your kind replies. Let me ask a more general
                    question which I think about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"
                    lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;
                    font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size: 12pt;
                    font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">in
                    units of 2pi/a (K_POINTS tpiba_b), </span><span
                    style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria,
                    serif;" lang="EN-US">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 style="font-size: 12pt;
                    font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">If I
                    specify
                    the k points in in <span style="color:red">crystal
                      coordinates</span> </span><span style="font-size:
                    12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">(K_POINTS
                    crystal_b), then of </span><span style="font-size:
                    12pt; font-family: Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">which
                    cell I should specify the k points in the input
                    files, FCC or SC lattice structure.</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria,
                    serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.7;">Thank you
                    in
                    advance.</span></p>
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                    lang="EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"
                    lang="EN-US">Evan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"
                    lang="EN-US">USC, China<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                At 2016-10-30 02:17:33, "stefano de gironcoli" <<a
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                  <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>
                    <br>
                    On 29/10/2016 16:00, evan wrote:<br>
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                              everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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; font-family:
                              Cambria, serif;" lang="EN-US">The input
                              files and results are attached, you can
                              show what is wrong in the input file.</span><span
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