Dear Stefano,

that is indeed a very helpful point. Thanks a lot!


All the best,

Carl-Friedrich Schön

Von: Stefano Baroni<mailto:[email protected]>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. September 2021 11:59
An: Quantum ESPRESSO users Forum<mailto:[email protected]>
Betreff: Re: [QE-users] Effective Mass Tensor unit-cell dependency



On 22 Sep 2021, at 11:42, Schön, Carl-Friedrich 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Dear Pietro,

I actually haven’t started thinking about which High Symmetry Points are 
comparable/identical going from one unit cell definition to the next. I was 
assuming that the Gamma Point (0,0,0) should be identical/equivalent no matter 
the representation of the unit cell.

Not a fair assumption. The states at the gamma point of an 8-atom cell are 
equivalent to the union of the states at the Gamma and the three X points of a 
2-atom cell. It has to be so, because the number of states at each k point must 
be proportional to the number of atom in the unit cell (by the way, this why 
the so-called "density of states” is actually a DOS per unit volume …).

Hope this helps
SB

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