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Improved tetrahedron method for Brillouin-zone integrations

Blöchl, Peter E., Jepsen, O., Andersen, O. K.·1994·Physical Review B

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Several improvements of the tetrahedron method for Brillouin-zone integrations are presented. (1) A translational grid of k points and tetrahedra is suggested that renders the results for insulators identical to those obtained with special-point methods with the same number of k points. (2) A simple correction formula goes beyond the linear approximation of matrix elements within the tetrahedra and also improves the results for metals significantly. For a required accuracy this reduces the number of k points by orders of magnitude. (3) Irreducible k points and tetrahedra are selected by a fully automated procedure, requiring as input only the space-group operations. (4) The integration is formulated as a weighted sum over irreducible k points with integration weights calculated using the tetrahedron method once for a given band structure. This allows an efficient use of the tetrahedron method also in plane-wave-based electronic-structure methods.

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Authors
Blöchl, P. E., Jepsen, O., & Andersen, O. K.
Venue
Physical Review B
Published
1994-06-15
Volume
49
Issue
23
Pages
16223-16233
ISSN
  • 0163-1829 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-3795
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W1988762313
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7,297
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journal article
Language
en
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