[Pw_forum] Generating k points for the full first brillouin zone

Lex Kemper positronium at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 01:20:07 CEST 2009


Hi Jeff,

Wannier90 (which comes with QE) comes with a utility that does it, I 
believe.

Lex Kemper
Department of Physics
University of Florida

jtmullen at ncsu.edu wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have a need to generate k points which cover the complete first BZ, not
> just the irreducible BZ. I notice a subroutine in PW/kpoint_grid.f90 which
> returns k points in the IBZ given grid dimensions (nk1, nk2, nk3), but
> before I set about modifying this routine or writing my own, I thought it
> prudent to find if a routine to generate k points in the entire BZ (given
> the same grid dimensions) already exists in the codebase. If it does, can
> someone let me know the proper subroutine?
> 
> Thanks
> Jeff Mullen
> NCSU Physics
> 
> 
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