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About scissor

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 2:30 am
by sdwang
Dear all:
The scissor is refered to direct gap or indirect gap?
Thanks!
SDWang

Re: About scissor

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 8:54 am
by claudio
Dear SDWang

the scissor referees to both, if you rigidly shift all the conduction bands, you increase both direct and indirect gap

Claudio

Re: About scissor

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 10:02 am
by sdwang
It means the scissor is the same for direct and indirect gap?
Thanks!

Re: About scissor

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 11:02 am
by claudio
Yes, the scissor is the same for direct and indirect gap
if you don't use valence/conduction stretching:

http://www.yambo-code.org/doc/vars/var_QP_E.php

otherwise it can be slightly different.

Re: About scissor

Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 12:12 pm
by sdwang
Thank you for your reply :)
SDWang