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Phys. Rev. B 13, 5188–5192 (1976)

Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

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Hendrik J. Monkhorst and James D. Pack
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Received 21 January 1976; published in the issue dated 15 June 1976

A method is given for generating sets of special points in the Brillouin zone which provides an efficient means of integrating periodic functions of the wave vector. The integration can be over the entire Brillouin zone or over specified portions thereof. This method also has applications in spectral and density-of-state calculations. The relationships to the Chadi-Cohen and Gilat-Raubenheimer methods are indicated.

© 1976 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.13.5188
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10.1103/PhysRevB.13.5188
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