Structure Constant Programme STR

The STR may be used to calculate the canonical structure constants defined by (6.7-9) or (8.23,24). In a typical application the programme is executed once for a given crystal structure. It produces and stores on disk or tape a set of structure-constant matrices distributed on a suitable grid in the irreducible wedge of the Brillouin zone. Whenever that particular crystal structure is encountered, the structure constant matrices may be retrieved and used to set up the LMTO eigenvalue problem which, in turn, leads to the energy bands of the material considered. 

The basic input to STR is the translational vectors spanning the unit cell of the crystal, and the basis vectors giving the positions of the individual atoms in the cell. With this information STR may in principle be used to calculate canonical structure constants of any crystal structure, the only limitation being that central processor time grows rapidly as the number of atoms per cell is increased. 

The basic output from STR is the canonical structure constants used in CANON and LMTO to calculate band structures. In addition, STR produces a file with real and reciprocal space vectors which is used by the combined correction term programme COR. This file may also be read by STR next time the same crystal structure is encountered, thus saving the time used to generate these vectors. 

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