[Pw_forum] Plotband.x

[Francesco Pelizza]

Sorry to jump in this argument. I may be not of much help.

For the question of overlapping bands or strange mixing of bands...In my 
experience, bands become easier to be plotted if when you run bands.x 
you add in the input file the flag: no_overlap= .true.

That flag avoid eigenvalues overlapping and even plotband.x does a nice job.

Francesco
University of Strathclyde



On 18/04/16 08:56, Giovanni Cantele wrote:
> bands crossing are spurious and they are due to the fact that, after 
> running bands.x (or in the case you have not used it at all), the 
> bands order might be incorrect. That means that the n-th band (that 
> is, the band that at each k-point is
> plotted as n-th eigenvalue) might actually contain, at different 
> k-points, energies belonging to different bands. In this case, if you 
> not only plot  the points but also connect them with lines, you might 
> see spurious connection lines between
> different bands. The way to cure this problem is to run bands.x before 
> plotband.x, but with a sufficient number of k-points (if they are too 
> distant bands.x might fail in following a band, that is, in assigning 
> a given eigenvalue to a band).
>
> Giovanni
>
>
>
>> On 18 Apr 2016, at 05:34, Manu Hegde <mhegde at uwaterloo.ca 
>> <mailto:mhegde at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Giovanni,
>>
>> Thanks for your advice.
>>
>> I have calculated band structure for the zinc blende GaP lattice. 
>> When I plotted using gnuplot it looks okay (plotgnu_gap.ps 
>> <http://plotgnu_gap.ps/>).  But .ps format from the plotband.x 
>> (plotband_gap.ps <http://plotband_gap.ps/>) does not look properly 
>> and there some bands crossing. I am not sure why it is happening like 
>> this.  I have attached both the files.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manu
>>
>> Dr.Manu Hegde
>> Postdoctoral Fellow
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Waterloo
>>
>> Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Giovanni Cantele 
>> <giovanni.cantele at spin.cnr.it <mailto:giovanni.cantele at spin.cnr.it>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Quite likely, you did not calculate the band structure along a
>>     path in the Brillouin zone, but used the output of the scf
>>     calculation (k-point grid). After running pw.x with
>>     calculation=‘scf’ or calculation=‘relax’,
>>     you need to rerun it with a new input file, calculation=‘bands’
>>     and K_POINTS card containing a suitable path of k-points. See
>>     also examples of band structure calculation included in the
>>     QE-package.
>>
>>     You can set Emin (Emax) to the value of the lowest (highest)
>>     eigenvalue), unless you need to select some specific energy range.
>>
>>     Giovanni
>>
>>     PS Users of this forum are usually kindly requested to sign
>>     messages with affiliation
>>
>>>     On 06 Apr 2016, at 05:25, Manu Hegde <mhegde at uwaterloo.ca
>>>     <mailto:mhegde at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello All,
>>>
>>>     I was trying to plot band structure of PbTiO3, I could only see
>>>     dots in bands.ps <http://bands.ps/> file. I am not sure what is
>>>     the reason for this. Is it due to the wrong k-point selection?.
>>>     I am also not sure about energy selection along y-axis (Emax,
>>>     Emin). I have attached bands.ps <http://bands.ps/> file please
>>>     have a look. Please help to overcome from this problem.
>>>
>>>     Thanks and Regards
>>>
>>>     Manu
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