[Pw_forum] wannier function

[Nicola Marzari]

Dear Min Wu,


you need, at a minimum, to mix 4 bands for each silicon
atom, to get 4 sp3 hybrids for each silicon atom.

In the first case, you have two silicon atoms per unit cell;
in the second case, one.

				nicola



On 12/9/10 11:16 PM, wumindt2 wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I tested the example of wannier90.x and have a problem here.
> For the Si calculation (example11), we need to include the 4 highest 
> valence bands and the 4 lowest conduction bands
> to make a sp3 projection on Si atoms.
> However, in the case of Silane (example07), we only need all the 4 bands 
> to make a sp3 projection on Si atom.
> 
> Why we need different number of bands to form sp3 projection for these 
> two material?
> 
> Thanks for any idea.
> 
> Min Wu
> 2010-12-9
> 


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