[Wannier] submartix

Jonathan Yates jry20 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 14 18:46:14 CEST 2008


On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, nafise rezaei wrote:

> I have a question about making submatrix 31 equation of "spectral and
> fermi surface properties from wannier interpolation" paper.
> You suppose second and third bands are degenerate(differ less than
> 10-4 eV). In the same kpoint third and forth
> bands are degenerate, but second and forth bands aren't degenerate,
> ie. don't differ less than 10-4 eV.(at some of band edeges, for example)
> in this case how are submatrix  H^W_alpha made?all of 2,3,4 bands use
> to make one submatrix? Is submatrix  3*3?

Nafise,

  I think in such a situation you should make and diagonalise the 3x3 
matrix. Of course, do check it numerically (as per my last email).

  Jonathan


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