[Pw_forum] Parity In presence of Spin-Orbit Coupling

Andrea Dal Corso dalcorso at sissa.it
Mon Feb 15 10:02:29 CET 2016


On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 01:06 +0330, Riemann Derakhshan wrote:
> Dear QE developer and Users,
> 
> I want to calculate the parity of occupied levels in some K-points with QE,
> 
> When I turned  the Spin-Orbit interaction off in "scf.in" file (graphene as
> sample material) it gave me an expected result, such that the parity
> 
> expectation values of bands are equal to  +1 and -1 which is normal.  But
> by turning  the Spin-Orbit interaction on in "scf.in" file and running
> 
> "bands.in" with "Bands.x" after "scf.in" it gave the parity expectation
> values equal to +2 and -2, I confused by this result. The "scf.in" and
> "sc.out"

In your system the parity can be deduced from the irreducible
representation G_5+ is even and G_5- is odd. Each representation is
twofold degenerate and the 2, -2 that appear in the character table are
the traces of the the parity operator, not the eigenvalues of the
operator.  The 2 that appear close to the eigenvalues instead refer only
to the degeneracy of the states.

HTH,

Andrea

> 
> and "bands.out" are attached below.
> 
> I want to know  is it normal to being parity expectation values equal to +2
> and -2 in presence of Spin-Orbit coupling? if  I did  make mistake how
> 
> can I fix it?
> 
> I'll appreciate anyone helping  me to solve this problem.
> 
> Sincerely Yours
> 
> Riemann
> 
> 
>  &control
> ! calculation type self consistent
>     calculation = 'scf'
>      wf_collect = .true. ,
>     prefix = './mol'
>     pseudo_dir = './'
>     outdir = './'
>     wf_collect = .true.
>     verbosity = 'high'
>  /
>  &system
>     ibrav = 4
>     celldm(1) = 4.65303296132007217931
>     celldm(3) = 4.87408610885458976441
>     nat = 2
>     ntyp = 1
>     ecutwfc = 30
>     ecutrho = 240
>     occupations = 'smearing'
> !   occupations = 'tetrahedra'
>     degauss = 0.01
> !   noncolin = .true. ,
> !  lspinorb = .true. ,
>  /
>  &electrons
>     conv_thr = 1.0e-8
>     mixing_beta = 0.1
>     mixing_mode = 'local-TF'
>     electron_maxstep = 100
>  /
>  &ions
>  /
> ATOMIC_SPECIES
> C    12.0107    C.pbe-rrkjus.UPF
> ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
> C        0.666666666   0.333333333   0.000000000
> C        0.333333333   0.666666666   0.000000000
> K_POINTS  crystal
> 1
> 0.50000000   0.00000000   0.00000000   1
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Bands.out Without Spin-Orbit
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>      Program BANDS v.5.1.1 starts on 14Feb2016 at  0:40:22
> 
>      This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite
>      for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
>          "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);
>           URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
>      in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details
> at
>      http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote
> 
>      Parallel version (MPI), running on     4 processors
>      R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =       4
> 
>    Info: using nr1, nr2, nr3 values from input
> 
>    Info: using nr1s, nr2s, nr3s values from input
> 
>      IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :
>      Exchange-correlation      =  SLA  PW   PBE  PBE ( 1  4  3  4 0 0)
>      Any further DFT definition will be discarded
>      Please, verify this is what you really want
> 
>                file C.pbe-rrkjus.UPF: wavefunction(s)  2S 2P renormalized
> 
>      Parallelization info
>      --------------------
>      sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
>      Min          90      46     14                 6690     2351     432
>      Max          91      47     18                 6703     2359     436
>      Sum         361     187     61                26787     9421    1737
> 
> 
>      negative rho (up, down):  2.652E-05 0.000E+00
>      high-symmetry point:  0.5000 0.2887 0.0000   x coordinate   0.0000
> 
>      Plottable bands written to file mol.band.gnu
>      Bands written to file mol.band
> 
>  **************************************************************************
> 
>                     xk=(   0.50000,   0.28868,   0.00000  )
> 
>      point group D_2h (mmm)
>      there are  8 classes
>      the character table:
> 
>        E     C2_z  C2_y  C2_x  i     s_xy  s_xz  s_yz
> A_g    1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00
> B_1g   1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00
> B_2g   1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00
> B_3g   1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00
> A_u    1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00
> B_1u   1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00  1.00
> B_2u   1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00  1.00
> B_3u   1.00 -1.00 -1.00  1.00 -1.00  1.00  1.00 -1.00
> 
>      the symmetry operations in each class:
>      E        1
>      C2_z     2
>      C2_y     3
>      C2_x     4
>      i        5
>      s_xy     6
>      s_xz     7
>      s_yz     8
> 
>      Band symmetry, D_2h (mmm)  point group:
> 
>      e(  1 -  1) =    -14.86312  eV     1   --> B_2u
>      e(  2 -  2) =    -13.83663  eV     1   --> A_g
>      e(  3 -  3) =     -7.01653  eV     1   --> B_3u
>      e(  4 -  4) =     -3.02267  eV     1   --> B_3g
>      e(  5 -  5) =      1.03648  eV     1   --> B_1u
>      e(  6 -  6) =      6.84967  eV     1   --> A_g
>      e(  7 -  7) =     10.01521  eV     1   --> B_2u
>      e(  8 -  8) =     10.21035  eV     1   --> A_g
> 
>  **************************************************************************
> 
>      BANDS        :     0.73s CPU         1.04s WALL
> 
> 
>    This run was terminated on:   0:40:23  14Feb2016
> 
> =------------------------------------------------------------------------------=
>    JOB DONE.
> =------------------------------------------------------------------------------=
> 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Bands.out With Spin-Orbit
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
>      Program BANDS v.5.1.1 starts on 14Feb2016 at  0:57:14
> 
>      This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite
>      for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
>          "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);
>           URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
>      in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details
> at
>      http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote
> 
>      Parallel version (MPI), running on     4 processors
>      R & G space division:  proc/nbgrp/npool/nimage =       4
> 
>    Info: using nr1, nr2, nr3 values from input
> 
>    Info: using nr1s, nr2s, nr3s values from input
> 
>      IMPORTANT: XC functional enforced from input :
>      Exchange-correlation      =  SLA  PW   PBE  PBE ( 1  4  3  4 0 0)
>      Any further DFT definition will be discarded
>      Please, verify this is what you really want
> 
>                file C.pbe-rrkjus.UPF: wavefunction(s)  2S 2P renormalized
> 
>      Parallelization info
>      --------------------
>      sticks:   dense  smooth     PW     G-vecs:    dense   smooth      PW
>      Min          90      46     14                 6690     2351     432
>      Max          91      47     18                 6703     2359     436
>      Sum         361     187     61                26787     9421    1737
> 
> 
>      negative rho (up, down):  2.651E-05 0.000E+00
>      high-symmetry point:  0.5000 0.2887 0.0000   x coordinate   0.0000
> 
>      Plottable bands written to file mol.band.gnu
>      Bands written to file mol.band
> 
>  **************************************************************************
> 
>                     xk=(   0.50000,   0.28868,   0.00000  )
> 
>      double point group D_2h (mmm)
>      there are 10 classes and  2 irreducible representations
>      the character table:
> 
>        E     -E     C2    C2'  C2''  i     -i     s_v   s_v' s_v''
>                    -C2   -C2'  -C2''             -s_v  -s_v' -s_v'
> G_5+   2.00 -2.00  0.00  0.00  0.00  2.00 -2.00  0.00  0.00  0.00
> G_5-   2.00 -2.00  0.00  0.00  0.00 -2.00  2.00  0.00  0.00  0.00
> 
>      the symmetry operations in each class:
>      E             1
>       C2  -C2      2   -2
>       C2' -C2'     3   -3
>      C2'' -C2''    4   -4
>      i             5
>       s_v -s_v     6   -6
>       s_v'-s_v'    7   -7
>      s_v''-s_v'    8   -8
>      -E           -1
>      -i           -5
> 
>      Band symmetry, D_2h (mmm)  double point group:
> 
>      e(  1 -  2) =    -14.86296  eV     2   --> G_5-
>      e(  3 -  4) =    -13.83647  eV     2   --> G_5+
>      e(  5 -  6) =     -7.01634  eV     2   --> G_5-
>      e(  7 -  8) =     -3.02256  eV     2   --> G_5+
>      e(  9 - 10) =      1.03660  eV     2   --> G_5-
>      e( 11 - 12) =      6.84981  eV     2   --> G_5+
>      e( 13 - 14) =     10.00945  eV     2   --> G_5-
>      e( 15 - 16) =     10.20230  eV     2   --> G_5+
> 
>  **************************************************************************
> 
>      BANDS        :     2.20s CPU         2.59s WALL
> 
> 
>    This run was terminated on:   0:57:17  14Feb2016
> 
> =------------------------------------------------------------------------------=
>    JOB DONE.
> =------------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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