Dear Pietro,

thank you for your answer. I thought if there is no time reversal symmetry also the combinations with other symmetry operations should be forbidden. Then it is quite similar to e.g. screw axes with a combination of rotation+translation although there don't need to be a rotation present? My system is orthorhombic. So the twofold axis plus time reversal leave the spin direction unchanged, right? Question marks started by comparing QE with the LAPW-code Elk. In the Elk code it seems that rotation+time-reversal is not used for k-point reduction. However, this should then be a question for the Elk forum....

Best regards,
Malte

Am 08.04.20 um 16:57 schrieb Pietro Delugas:

Dear Molte

your system could be symmetric under operations  made by a rotation + the time reversal operation, in fact these are  the operations that the no_t_rev option disables, not the time reversal per se.

does  the results  with and without t_rev compare correctly ?

best regards Pietro

On 08/04/20 12:57, Malte Sachs wrote:
Dear all,

I am performing non-collinear magnetic calculations with spin-orbit interactions with QE 6.5. As far as I have understand, for a ferromagnetic system time-reversal symmetry should be broken in this case.

Although the program detects the right magnetic double point group, the k-points grid is set up with time-reversal symmetry and I have to set the no_t_rev flag manually to disable this. Is there any reason why this isn't done by default (e.g. these calculations can be done safely with a more reduced k-points grid...)? Do I miss something?

Best regards,

Malte Sachs



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