Re: How can I calculate of group velocity of guided mode?

"Steven G. Johnson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.science.photonic-bands
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Hassan Aghababaeian wrote:
> I need to calculate group velocity of guided mode (or Group index)  
> in some geometry like line defects.
> From froum I understood  display-group-velocities command in MPB can  
> be useful. But I couldn't find what is output and how can be used?
> When I extract Group velocities by: grep velocity *.out >  
> result.dat, the output is some vectores like:
> velocity:, 1, #(0.0 0.0 0.0), #(…
> velocity:, 2, #(0.546472273423393 0.31550526440082  
> 7.60657916462197e-9), …
>
> What do these vectors mean? How can I calculate group velocity of  
> guided mode?

As documented in the manual, they are the group velocities, in units  
of c, in Cartesian coordinates, one line per k-point and one velocity  
per band (comma separated).   That is, the format is #(vx/c vy/c vz/c).

#(.....) is the Scheme way of printing any objects of the Scheme  
"vector" type.

Stevne

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