<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Nicola, <br><br></div>Thanks for SeeK-path that is extremely helpful.<br> <br></div>Are you aware of any such code which also can provide us <br></div>phonon symmetry labels such as R_4+, M_3+ and X_5-? <br><br>QE prints such labels but hardly matches with the labels available<br></div>already in the literature. <br><br></div>Sincerely, <br></div>Suza<br><div><div><br><br><div><div><div><div><div><a href="http://materialscloud.org/tools/seekpath/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Nicola Marzari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicola.marzari@epfl.ch" target="_blank">nicola.marzari@epfl.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<br>
There are two gamma to X paths - the "short" one [a,0,0], where<br>
a goes from 0 to 1, and the "long" one [a,a,0], also with a going<br>
from 0 to 1.<br>
<br>
These are called the delta path and the sigma path:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brillouin_zone" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Brillouin_zone</a><br>
<br>
For this lattice the end points are equivalent ([1,0,0] and [1,1,0])<br>
but the sigma path goes though K [3/4,3/4,0]. Try to visualize in the<br>
wikipedia page where [1,1,0] is, and why it is equivalent to [1,0,0].<br>
<br>
Also, you can use SeeK-path<br>
<a href="http://materialscloud.org/tools/seekpath/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://materialscloud.org/<wbr>tools/seekpath/</a><br>
to automatically created for any structure the k-point path that<br>
follows the correct crystallographic conventions.<br>
<br>
<br>
nicola<br>
<div><div class="gmail-h5"><br>
<br>
On 08/07/2017 07:27, balabi wrote:<br>
> Dear developers,<br>
> I am calculating silicon phonon dispersion, however, I got confused<br>
> about the dispersion along K-X.<br>
><br>
> I found there are apparently different results on the web. Some are<br>
> the same with my calculation, most are not.<br>
><br>
> My result along k-path "Γ - K - X - Γ - L" is here:<br>
> <a href="https://pasteboard.co/GzWanr4.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pasteboard.co/GzWanr4.<wbr>png</a><br>
> The only result that is the same with me is on QuantumWise page :<br>
> <a href="http://quantumwise.com/about-us/item/836-silicon-phonon-bandstructure" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quantumwise.com/about-<wbr>us/item/836-silicon-phonon-<wbr>bandstructure</a><br>
><br>
> However, most of the results that I googled is quite different<br>
> along K-X, for example<br>
> <a href="http://exciting-code.org/phonon-properties-in-diamond-structure-crystals" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://exciting-code.org/<wbr>phonon-properties-in-diamond-<wbr>structure-crystals</a><br>
> or paper<br>
> DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.165201 in which the author claimed<br>
> they calculate the phonon by QE<br>
> I notice that the length of K-X is not the same in two different<br>
> result.<br>
> Besides the same problem exists for similar structure like AlAs etc.<br>
> But I don't know what is going wrong here? Which is the right<br>
> result? Thank you for helping.<br>
><br>
> best regards<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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