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<b>Subject:</b> [QE-users] Requesting Help With Spin Orbit Coupling Spin-Separated Bands Extraction</font>
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 and later on, GaN. I ran a few simulations for Silicon (with a fully relativistic pseudopotential obtained from PSLibrary 1.0.0) by turning on the "lspinorb" and "noncolin" keywords and specifying a non-zero "starting_magnetization" in the "&system" namecard. 
 The simulation runs smoothly, however, when I try to extract the bands for just spin-down electrons using "spin_component=2" in the input file given to the bands.x code, it returns the following error:
<code></code><code><code></code></code><code><code><code>Error in routine punch_bands (1):      incorrect spin_component</code>​</code>​</code>​.
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 keyword combinations using "nspin" and "lspinorb", and I found that "lspinorb" requires non-colinear spin vectors whereas "nspin=2" requires colinear spins, therefore, they would not work simultaneously. As a result, I can not use the "spin_component" keyword
 in the bands.x input file to extract the spin separated bands. So my question is: if I am using "lspinorb=.true." and "noncolin=.true.", is there a way to extract the spin-up and spin-down conduction and valence bands separately?
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