Dear All,

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Pratyush Manocha
Graduate Student | M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Subject: [QE-users] Requesting Help With Spin Orbit Coupling Spin-Separated 
Bands Extraction

Dear All,

I am using QE-7.1 and want to plot the spin-orbit coupled bands for Silicon and 
later on, GaN. I ran a few simulations for Silicon (with a fully relativistic 
pseudopotential obtained from PSLibrary 1.0.0) by turning on the "lspinorb" and 
"noncolin" keywords and specifying a non-zero "starting_magnetization" in the 
"&system" namecard.  The simulation runs smoothly, however, when I try to 
extract the bands for just spin-down electrons using "spin_component=2" in the 
input file given to the bands.x code, it returns the following error: Error in 
routine punch_bands (1):      incorrect spin_component​​​.

I went through the archive and also tried simulating with various different 
keyword combinations using "nspin" and "lspinorb", and I found that "lspinorb" 
requires non-colinear spin vectors whereas "nspin=2" requires colinear spins, 
therefore, they would not work simultaneously. As a result, I can not use the 
"spin_component" keyword in the bands.x input file to extract the spin 
separated bands. So my question is: if I am using "lspinorb=.true." and 
"noncolin=.true.", is there a way to extract the spin-up and spin-down 
conduction and valence bands separately?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Pratyush Manocha
Graduate Student | M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
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