[QE-users] Meaning of band plot colors.

[Junfeng Qiao]

On Tuesday, June 11, 2019 3:22:34 AM CST Vasilios Passias wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I have a relatively simple question:  what do the various
> colors in a bandstructure plot mean?  I thought the different colors are
> associated with the symmetry of the particular k-space path, but I'm not
> sure.  Below is a bandstructure I obtained for Bismuth Selenide with spin
> orbit coupling and periodic boundary conditions in all directions.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> [image: image.png]

How did you obtain this image? If you have run projwfc.x, plotband.x can produce 
orbital-projected band structure, in which the color represents the weight of each 
atomic orbital. But I don't think this image is produced by plotband.x

Junfeng
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