[Pw_forum] How to plot bands perfectly with plotband.x?

Yue-Wen Fang yuewen.fang at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 14:40:26 CEST 2012


Dear Andrea,

Thank you very much! Owning to your help, I have got a perfect bands
diagram without abnormal lines. Your instruction plays a significant role
in curbing this problem. Many thanks!

Yuewen Fang

2012/9/4 Andrea Dal Corso <dalcorso at sissa.it>

> Now use plotband.x on bands-down-lsym.dat. Plotband.x reads also
> the .rap file and produces several files that you can plot with
> a graphical program.
>
> Andrea
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 20:12 +0800, Yue-Wen Fang wrote:
> > I have use this way you said before, but  just got two files
> > name bands-down-lsym.dat.rap and  bands-down-lsym.dat.
> > What's more this flag lsym=.true. costs much more time in computing
> > obviously with 4 processors.
> >
> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >
> >  2800 fyw       16   0 77416  33m 3332 R 89.9  0.2   5:53.96 bands.x
> >
> >  2834 fyw       16   0 76864  33m 3092 R 89.6  0.2   5:46.15 bands.x
> >
> >  2863 fyw       16   0 76344  33m 3092 R 89.6  0.2   5:48.02 bands.x
> >
> >  2805 fyw       16   0 76992  33m 3092 R 86.9  0.2   5:34.04 bands.x
> >
> > 2012/9/4 Andrea Dal Corso <dalcorso at sissa.it>
> >         You can try the flag lsym=.true. as input of bands.x and plot
> >         all the
> >         files that are produced by plotband.x.
> >
> >         HTH,
> >
> >         Andrea
> >
> >         On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 18:04 +0800, Yue-Wen Fang wrote:
> >         > Dear all,
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I plotted a bands diagram with plotband.x, but there is some
> >         chaos in
> >         > the diagram (namely the output file bands.ps).  The diagram
> >         was put in
> >         > the this website:
> >          http://www.douban.com/group/topic/32502443/
> >         > I also tried to save the bands.xmgr as bands.dat and load it
> >         to
> >         >  origin 8.0 and Xmgrace, but all failed. The problem still
> >         emerged.
> >         > How to fix this program and curb the problem?
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Best Regards!
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > --
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> >         > Yue-Wen Fang
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
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