<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear QE users,<br></div> I am working on a 2D system which has inversion symmetry (I also checked the scf output). I wanted to see the parities of the bands at the time reversal invariant momenta (TRIM) points by using lsym = .true. in the input of bands.x. I found that some of the parities are not written (<b>'?' marks</b>) at the output e.g. I am attaching the result for the \Gamma point of the Brillouin zone:<br><br> **************************************************************************<br><br> xk=( 0.00000, 0.00000, 0.00000 )<br><br> double point group C_i (-1)<br> there are 4 classes and 2 irreducible representations<br> the character table:<br><br> E -E i -i<br><br>G_2+ 1.00 -1.00 1.00 -1.00<br>G_2- 1.00 -1.00 -1.00 1.00<br><br> the symmetry operations in each class and the name of the first element:<br><br> E 1<br><br> -E -1<br><br> i 2<br><br> -i -2<br><br><br> Band symmetry, C_i (-1) double point group:<br><br> e( 1 - 2) = -26.22720 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 3 - 4) = -26.22052 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 5 - 6) = -26.16497 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 7 - 8) = -26.15690 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 9 - 10) = -25.65055 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 11 - 12) = -25.64216 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 13 - 14) = -25.61619 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 15 - 16) = -25.60915 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 17 - 18) = -25.56476 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 19 - 20) = -25.55818 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 21 - 22) = -19.83112 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 23 - 24) = -19.82338 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> <b> e( 25 - 26) = -17.12502 eV 2 --> ?<br> e( 27 - 28) = -17.12324 eV 2 --> ?<br> e( 29 - 30) = -17.09245 eV 2 --> ?<br> e( 31 - 32) = -17.09133 eV 2 --> ?</b><br> e( 33 - 34) = -12.20984 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 35 - 36) = -12.09999 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 37 - 38) = -10.28999 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 39 - 40) = -8.62971 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 41 - 42) = -8.22226 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 43 - 44) = -8.20903 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 45 - 46) = -8.13155 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 47 - 48) = -8.11535 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 49 - 50) = -6.09122 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 51 - 52) = -5.86160 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 53 - 54) = -4.79659 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 55 - 56) = -4.75627 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 57 - 58) = -4.72655 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 59 - 60) = -4.67253 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 61 - 62) = -4.65292 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 63 - 64) = -4.62364 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 65 - 66) = -3.53630 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 67 - 68) = -3.37897 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 69 - 70) = -3.37099 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 71 - 72) = -3.26680 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 73 - 74) = -3.15149 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 75 - 76) = -2.28433 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 77 - 78) = -2.20095 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 79 - 80) = -0.88842 eV 2 --> 2 G_2+<br> e( 81 - 82) = 0.19215 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br> e( 83 - 84) = 1.70887 eV 2 --> 2 G_2-<br><br> **************************************************************************<br></div><div>I want to understand why some of the parities were no written. Any help in this regards would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance!<br><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div><div>best regards,<br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Rajdeep Banerjee<br>PhD student<div>JNCASR, Bangalore</div><div>India</div></div></div>
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