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    <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">> Let me
        be clear. My question actually is "Can QE</span><font
        style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height:
        22.1px;">  project </font><font size="2" face="Arial">selected
        electronic states of selected atoms into the first
        Brillouin Zone?"</font></div>
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    <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear Jibao,</font></div>
    <div><font size="2" face="Arial">if you come from a quantum
        chemistry background, or if you have only ever used localized
        basis-set codes (gaussian, siesta,... ) you expect to be able to
        assign a wavefunction to an atom. But Quantum ESPRESSO (like
        VASP, Abinit,... ) is a plane-waves basis code, where it is very
        clear that valence electrons cannot be assigned to a specific
        atom, they are all infinitely delocalized in real space (but to
        some extent localized in reciprocal space).</font></div>
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    <div><font size="2" face="Arial">I guess the answer is "no". Quantum
        ESPRESSO cannot do what you ask.</font></div>
    <p><font size="2"><font face="Arial">In order to help intuition,
          people using plane waves sometimes do the opposite: transform</font></font><font
        size="2" face="Arial"> delocalized crystal wavefunction into
        real space functions in order to associate electronic bands with
        their chemical "character". This can be done dirty and quick
        with projwfc using atomic wavefunctions, or properly and not so
        easy with Wannier functions.<br>
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    <div><font size="2" face="Arial">kind regards<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/08/2022 12:57, Jibiao Li wrote:<br>
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      <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear </font><span
          style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Lorenzo</span></div>
      <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><br>
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      <div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Let me be
          clear. My question actually is "Can QE</span><font
          style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height:
          22.1px;">  project </font><font size="2" face="Arial">selected
          electronic states of selected atoms into the first
          Brillouin Zone?"</font></div>
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      <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Best</font></div>
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          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Jibiao Li</font></p>
          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Department of Materials Science
              and Engineering</font></p>
          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Yangtze Normal University</font></p>
          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Juxian Avenue 16, Fuling,
              Chongqing, China 408100</font></p>
          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Scopus Research ID: <a
                href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=54944118000"
                moz-do-not-send="true"><font face="Arial"><font
                    face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">54944118000</font></font></font></font></a></font></p>
          <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Web of Science Research ID: <span
                style="border: 1px none windowtext; padding: 0px;"><a
                  href="https://publons.com/researcher/2283103/jibiao-li/"
                  target="_blank"
                  title="https://publons.com/researcher/2283103/jibiao-li/"
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          <div><b>From:</b> "Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum"
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lorenzo.paulatto@cnrs.fr"><lorenzo.paulatto@cnrs.fr></a>;</div>
          <div><b>Date:</b> Sun, Aug 28, 2022 06:51 PM</div>
          <div><b>To:</b> "users"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org"><users@lists.quantum-espresso.org></a>;<wbr></div>
          <div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [QE-users] Can QE project selected
            electronic states of selected atoms into the k-space?</div>
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        <p>I guess projwfc with option kresolveddos can project Bloch
          wavefunction of a selected k-point onto atomic reference (i.e.
          arbitrary) wavefunctions. I'm not sure that it is what you
          want.</p>
        <p><font size="2" face="Arial">> Clearly wave-functions are
            things in the real space not the momentum space.</font></p>
        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Would you mind explaining? It is
          not clear to me that Bloch wavefunctions are real space
          objects. Wannier functions are clearly real space, but they
          are clearly not "wavefunctions" (i.e. they are not stationary
          states of the crystal Hamiltonian).</div>
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        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">cheers<br>
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        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/08/2022 12:43, Jibiao Li
          wrote:<br>
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          <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear Lorenzo,</font></div>
          <div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br>
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          <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Thank you for your reply, but
              my question is "Can QE<font style="line-height: 22.1px;"> 
                project </font>selected electronic states of selected
              atoms into the momentum space?" Clearly wave-functions are
              things in the real space not the momentum space.</font></div>
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          <div><font size="2" face="Arial">Regards</font></div>
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              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Jibiao Li</font></p>
              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Department of Materials
                  Science and Engineering</font></p>
              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Yangtze Normal University</font></p>
              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Juxian Avenue 16, Fuling,
                  Chongqing, China 408100</font></p>
              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Scopus Research ID: <a
                    href="https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=54944118000"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><font face="Arial"><font
                        face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font
                            face="Arial">54944118000</font></font></font></font></a></font></p>
              <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Web of Science Research ID:
                  <span style="border: 1px none windowtext; padding:
                    0px;"><a
                      href="https://publons.com/researcher/2283103/jibiao-li/"
                      target="_blank"
                      title="https://publons.com/researcher/2283103/jibiao-li/"
                      style="" moz-do-not-send="true">F-1905-2016</a></span></font></p>
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              <div><b>From:</b> "Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum" <a
                  class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:lorenzo.paulatto@cnrs.fr"
                  moz-do-not-send="true"><lorenzo.paulatto@cnrs.fr></a>;</div>
              <div><b>Date:</b> Sun, Aug 28, 2022 06:24 PM</div>
              <div><b>To:</b> "users"<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                  href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org"
                  moz-do-not-send="true"><users@lists.quantum-espresso.org></a>;<wbr></div>
              <div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [QE-users] Can QE project
                selected electronic states of selected atoms into the
                k-space?</div>
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            <p>Dear Jibiao,</p>
            <p>I'm not sure if I understand your question. Quantum
              ESPRESSO can and does compute wavefunctions and Kohn-Sham
              energy bands at given k-points. It is actually the main
              thing it does.</p>
            <p>kind regards</p>
            <p><br>
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            <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/08/2022 12:13, Jibiao Li
              wrote:<br>
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              cite="mid:tencent_AF1769D1EAAEFFA1BB6D44F798FEB58C9609@qq.com">
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                <div style=" ;; "><font style="line-height: 22.1px;"
                    size="2" face="Arial">Dear All,</font></div>
                <div style=" ;; "><font style="line-height: 22.1px;"
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                <div style=" ;; "><font style="line-height: 22.1px;"
                    size="2" face="Arial">In condensed matter physics,
                    projecting electronic states of targeted atoms into
                    the momentum space is definitely an important tool
                    to study electronic structures of materials. I am
                    writing this short email to get answer whether QE
                    has the functionality to do like this.</font></div>
                <div style=" ;; "><font style="line-height: 22.1px;"
                    size="2" face="Arial">May I  project </font><span
                    style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">either
                    all or selected electronic states of selected atoms
                    into the k-space in QE?</span></div>
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                    font-size: small;"><br>
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                <div style=" ;; "><span style="font-family: Arial;
                    font-size: small;">Regards</span></div>
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                    <p style="line-height: 23.8px;"><font
                        style="line-height: 20.4px;" size="1"
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                    <p style="line-height: 23.8px;"><font
                        style="line-height: 20.4px;" size="1"
                        face="Arial">Department of Materials Science and
                        Engineering</font></p>
                    <p style="line-height: 23.8px;"><font
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                        face="Arial">Yangtze Normal University</font></p>
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                        face="Arial">Juxian Avenue 16, Fuling,
                        Chongqing, China 408100</font></p>
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                  <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Jibiao Li</font></p>
                  <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Department of Materials
                      Science and Engineering</font></p>
                  <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Yangtze Normal
                      University</font></p>
                  <p><font size="1" face="Arial">Juxian Avenue 16,
                      Fuling, Chongqing, China 408100</font></p>
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                IdR @ IMPMC - CNRS UMR 7590 & Sorbonne Université<br>
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The Quantum ESPRESSO community stands by the Ukrainian
people and expresses its concerns about the devastating
effects that the Russian military offensive has on their
country and on the free and peaceful scientific, cultural,
and economic cooperation amongst peoples
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Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.max-centre.eu" moz-do-not-send="true">www.max-centre.eu</a>)
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          <small>Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto<br>
            IdR @ IMPMC - CNRS UMR 7590 & Sorbonne Université<br>
            phone: +33 (0)1 442 79822 / skype: paulatz<br>
            <a href="http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/%7Epaulatto/"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/</a>
            - <a href="https://anharmonic.github.io/"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://anharmonic.github.io/</a><br>
            23-24/423 B115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris CX 05</small></div>
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The Quantum ESPRESSO community stands by the Ukrainian
people and expresses its concerns about the devastating
effects that the Russian military offensive has on their
country and on the free and peaceful scientific, cultural,
and economic cooperation amongst peoples
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Quantum ESPRESSO is supported by MaX (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.max-centre.eu">www.max-centre.eu</a>)
users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@lists.quantum-espresso.org">users@lists.quantum-espresso.org</a>
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      <small>Dr. Lorenzo Paulatto<br>
        IdR @ IMPMC - CNRS UMR 7590 & Sorbonne Université<br>
        phone: +33 (0)1 442 79822 / skype: paulatz<br>
        <a href="http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/"
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~paulatto/</a>
        - <a href="https://anharmonic.github.io/"
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://anharmonic.github.io/</a><br>
        23-24/423 B115, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris CX 05</small></div>
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