Dear Martin,<div><br></div><div>You don't need to reduce the number of Wigner-Seitz</div><div>points in order to identify the nearest neighbors because</div><div>seedname_hr.dat contains all the necessary information</div>
<div>in order for you to extract those neighbors.</div><div>The format goes as follows</div><div><br></div><div>R1 R2 R3 m n Re(<wm|H|wn>) Im(<wm|H|wn>)</div><div><br></div><div>where R1, R2, R3 are the integer coordinates of unit cell</div>
<div>R (in the bases of the direct lattice vectors a1, a2, a3)</div><div>with respect to the "home" cell (R=0).</div><div><br></div><div>So all you need to do is extract all the matrix elements</div><div>corresponding to the proper nearest neighbor cell R.</div>
<div>For example if you had a 1D system like a nanotube in the</div><div>z-direction, then you would probably want to extract the</div><div>matrix elements corresponding to R = 0 0 1.</div><div><br></div><div>You could of course reduce the number of k points in your</div>
<div>calculation such that only the nearest neighbor cells would</div><div>show up but then your calculation would most probably not</div><div>be very converged for the Wannier functions (not enough</div><div>k point sampling).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nicolas</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Martin Gmitra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.gmitra@gmail.com">martin.gmitra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Dear Wannier90 users,<br>
<br>
We are interested to compare Hamiltonian in Wannier basis with a<br>
simple tight-binding<br>
nearest-neighbors model. My question is -- how one can reduce number<br>
of Wigner-Seitz<br>
grid-points nrpts such that resulting Hamiltonian (seedname_hr.dat)<br>
includes nearest<br>
neighbors only?<br>
<br>
Second question I do have is -- what are the units of the Hamiltonian<br>
matrix elements<br>
in the seedname_hr.dat file?<br>
<br>
With Best regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Martin Gmitra<br>
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