Brillouin-zone sampling
TODO: describe why we need to do \(\int_{BZ}d\vec{k} \ldots\)
Here’s an example input file for silicon
# Diamond-cubic silicon
lattice:
system: cubic
modification: face-centered
a: 10.26 # bohrs
ions:
pseudopotentials:
- ../../../JDFTx/build_testing/pseudopotentials/SG15/$ID_ONCV_PBE.upf
coordinates:
- [Si, 0.125, 0.07, 0.01]
- [Si, 0.375, 0.32, 0.26]
electrons:
k-mesh:
offset: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5] #Monkhorst-Pack
size: [8, 8, 8]
grid:
ke-cutoff: 100
checkpoint: null # disable reading checkpoint
checkpoint-out: Si.h5 # but still create it