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input_description -distribution {Quantum ESPRESSO} -package PWscf -program band_interpolation.x {
toc {}
intro {
@b {Purpose of band_interpolation.x:}
This contains four band energies interpolation methods,
to be advantageously (but not necessarly) used for EXX band structure computations.
The PP/src/band_interpolation.x post-processing subprogram reads the band energies
stored in the pwscf.xml file after an SCF calculation on a uniform Monkhorst-Pack grid,
and interpolates the eigenvalues to an arbitrary set of k-points provided in input.
The workflow is just:
(1) do an SCF on a uniform grid
(2) call the interpolator from the folder in which the pwscf.xml
file is present (band_interpolation.x < input)
For large EXX calculations the first step can be splitted in two substeps:
(1) do an SCF calculation on a uniform grid with occupied bands only
(2) do a NSCF (or Bands) calculation on the same uniform grid adding virtual orbitals
(3) call the interpolator from the folder in which the pwscf.xml file is present
Four interpolation methods have been included (see @ref method).
The interpolated band structure in eV units is written in a file named [method].dat
(e.g. fourier-diff.dat for the fourier-diff method) that is plottable with Grace or Gnuplot
(e.g. xmgrace -nxy fourier-diff.dat)
@b {Structure of the input data:}
============================
@b &INTERPOLATION
...
@b /
[ @b ROUGHNESS
RoughN
'automatic' or RoughC(1) RoughC(2) RoughC(3) ... RoughC(RoughN) ]
[ @b USER_STARS
NUser
vec_X vec_Y vec_Z ]
@b K_POINTS { tpiba_b }
nks
xk_x, xk_y, xk_z, wk
}
namelist INTERPOLATION {
var method -type CHARACTER {
default { 'fourier-diff' }
info { The interpolation method to be used }
options {
info { Available options are: }
opt -val 'fourier-diff' {
band energies, as functions of k, are expanded in reciprocal space using a Star function basis set
(algorithm from Pickett W. E., Krakauer H., Allen P. B., Phys. Rev. B, vol. 38, issue 4, page 2721, 1988,
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.38.2721 ).
WARNING: The pwscf.xml file must be generated with @ref nosym == .false. . }
opt -val 'fourier' {
band energies, as functions of k, are expanded in reciprocal space using a Star function basis set
(algorithm from D. D. Koelling, J. H. Wood, J. Comput. Phys., 67, 253-262 (1986).
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986JCoPh..67..253K ).
WARNING: The pwscf.xml file must be generated with @ref nosym == .false. . }
opt -val 'idw' {
inverse distance weighting interpolation with Shepard metric
(ACM 68: Proceedings of the 1968 23rd ACM national conference, January 1968, Pages 517524,
https://doi.org/10.1145/800186.810616 ).
WARNING: The pwscf.xml file must be generated with @ref nosym == .true. .
WARNING: This method is REALLY simple and provides only a very rough estimate of the band structure. }
opt -val 'idw-sphere' {
inverse distance weighting interpolation inside a sphere of given radius.
WARNING: The pwscf.xml file must be generated with @ref nosym == .true. .
WARNING: This method is REALLY simple and provides only a very rough estimate of the band structure. }
}
}
var miller_max -type INTEGER {
default { 6 }
info { The maximum Miller index used to automatically generate the set of symmetry inequivalent Star vectors
(only for @ref method == 'fourier-diff' or 'fourier') }
}
var check_periodicity -type LOGICAL {
default { .FALSE. }
info { If .TRUE. a (time consuming) step is performed, to check whether all the Star functions have
the correct lattice periodicity (only for @ref method == 'fourier-diff' or 'fourier') .
For automatically generated Star functions this should never occur by construction, and the program
will stop and exit in case one Star function with wrong periodicity is found (useful for
debugging and program sanity check).
If additional user-defined Star vectors are specified (see optional card @ref USER_STARS),
the program will print a WARNING in case one Star function with wrong periodicity is found. }
}
var p_metric -type INTEGER {
default { 2 }
info { The exponent of the distance in the IDW method ( only for @ref method == 'idw' or 'idw-sphere') }
}
var scale_sphere -type INTEGER {
default { 4.0d0 }
info { The search radius for @ref method == 'idw-sphere', is Rmin * scale_sphere, where Rmin is the
minimum distance found between the uniform grid of k-points.
If scale_sphere is too small, some k-points of the path might not see enough uniform grid points
to average energies, whereas for large values the method becomes equal to @ref method == 'idw'. }
}
}
card ROUGHNESS {
label { Optional card, used only if @ref method == 'fourier-diff', or 'fourier', ignored otherwise! }
message { This card can be used to change the roughness functional that is minimized
in the @ref method == 'fourier-diff' and 'fourier'.
In case @ref method == 'fourier-diff', or 'fourier' and card ROUGHNESS is not specified the default
roughness will be used with @ref RoughN == 1 and @ref RoughC(1) == 1.0d0.
}
syntax {
line { var RoughN -type INTEGER {
default { 1 }
info {Number of terms included in the roughness functional } }
}
table RoughC {
cols -start 1 -end RoughN {
rowgroup -type REAL {
default { 1.0d0 }
info {Coefficients for the terms included in the roughness functional.
They can be explicitely given or 'automatic' can be specified instead of numbers
to use default coefficients. }
row RoughC
}
}
}
}
}
card USER_STARS {
label { Optional card, used only if @ref method == 'fourier-diff', or 'fourier', ignored otherwise ! }
syntax {
line {
var NUser -type INTEGER {
default { 0 }
info {Number of supplied additional Star vectors.}
}
}
table kpoints {
rows -start 1 -end NUser {
colgroup -type REAL {
col vec_x
col vec_y
col vec_z
info {
Additional user-defined Star vectors that are added to the
automatically generated ones to augment the Star functions
basis set.
You might also want to check @ref check_periodicity when providing
user-defined Star vectors.
}
}
}
}
}
}
card K_POINTS {
flag kpoint_type -use optional {
enum { tpiba_b }
default { none }
options {
info {
All K_POINTS options other than tpiba_b have been disabled in the interpolation.
}
opt -val tpiba_b {
Used for band-structure plots.
See Doc/brillouin_zones.pdf for usage of BZ labels;
otherwise, k-points are in units of 2 pi/a.
nks points specify nks-1 lines in reciprocal space.
Every couple of points identifies the initial and
final point of a line. pw.x generates N intermediate
points of the line where N is the weight of the first point.
}
}
}
choose {
when -test "tpiba_b" {
syntax -flag { tpiba_b } {
line {
var nks -type INTEGER {
info {Number of supplied special k-points.}
}
}
table kpoints {
rows -start 1 -end nks {
colgroup -type REAL {
col xk_x
col xk_y
col xk_z
col wk
info {
Special k-points (xk_x/y/z) in the irreducible Brillouin Zone
(IBZ) of the lattice (with all symmetries) and weights (wk)
See the literature for lists of special points and
the corresponding weights.
If the symmetry is lower than the full symmetry
of the lattice, additional points with appropriate
weights are generated. Notice that such procedure
assumes that ONLY k-points in the IBZ are provided in input
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}