[Q-e-developers] wavefunction

[Nicola Marzari]

On 28/10/2015 14:22, Jiqiang Li wrote:
> Nicola,
>       As you mentioned, the relative phases between wavefunctions at all
> the k points make no sense. Did you mean we can force the wavefunction
> at any k points to real as we like?


No - you can choose one arbitrary phase exp (i.alpha_n,k) for every
u_n,k(r); but only at Gamma you can choose an alpha_n,Gamma
so that u_n,k (r) is real everywhere (i.e. for every r).

This is to say that the u_n,k (r) are intrinsically complex,
while u_n,Gamma (r), if it comes out complex, it is so trivially,
and there is a single phase that makes u_n,Gamma (r) everywhere real.

			nicola


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