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Offline lknife

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Dear all,

I made a bilayer hetero-structure  using the "interface" plugin and wanted to calculate its band structure. However, I did not know how to set the Brillouin zone route for such a unit cell. I used the default route for unit cell "G, Z" but the result was not correct. Attached is the .py file for this calculation. Can anybody can kindly help me?

Thanks a lot for anyone who is willing to help me!

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Offline Jess Wellendorff

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The Interface Builder creates a UnitCell with the following high-symmetry points in k-space:
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{'A': array([ 0. ,  0.5,  0.5]),
 'B': array([ 0.5,  0. ,  0.5]),
 'C': array([ 0.5,  0.5,  0. ]),
 'G': array([ 0.,  0.,  0.]),
 'L': array([ 0.5,  0.5,  0.5]),
 'X': array([ 0.5,  0. ,  0. ]),
 'Y': array([ 0. ,  0.5,  0. ]),
 'Z': array([ 0. ,  0. ,  0.5])}
Guess you could try those as your band path.

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Thank you very much for you kind reply!