A General Algorithm for Calculating Irreducible Brillouin Zones

DOI10.4208/CICP.OA-2021-0094MaRDI QIDQ5065183zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeremy J. Jorgensen, John E. Christensen, Tyler Jarvis, Gus L. W. Hart

Publication date 18 March 2022

Published in Communications in Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05856

zbMATH Keywords

Brillouin zoneirreducible Brillouin zone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms (68W40) Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05) Computational aspects related to convexity (52B55) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Relations of manifolds and cell complexes with physics (57Z05) Relations of manifolds and cell complexes with chemistry (57Z15)

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Cites work

• A procedure for the construction of Voronoi polyhedra
• Brillouin-zone database on the \textit{Bilbao Crystallographic Server}.
• Julia: a fresh approach to numerical computing
• Low-dimensional lattice basis reduction revisited
• Numerical quadrature in the Brillouin zone for periodic Schrödinger operators
• The quickhull algorithm for convex hulls

Cited in

(4)

• Brillouin zones and the geometry of numbers
• On Brillouin zones
• Automatic, high-order, and adaptive algorithms for Brillouin zone integration
• Local symmetry groups for arbitrary wavevectors

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• GitHub
• pymatgen
• Bilbao Crystallography Server
• Julia
• Qhull

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