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<h3>Pre- and Post- processing of Density Functional Theory Codes</h2>
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</div><p>PyProcar is a robust, open-source Python library used for pre- and post-processing of the electronic structure data coming from DFT calculations.
PyProcar provides a set of functions that manage data from the PROCAR format obtained from various DFT codes.
Basically, the PROCAR file is a projection of the Kohn-Sham states over atomic orbitals.
That projection is performed to every <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span>-point in the considered mesh, every energy band and every atom.
PyProcar is capable of performing a multitude of tasks including plotting plain and spin/atom/orbital projected band structures and
Fermi surfaces- both in 2D and 3D, Fermi velocity plots, unfolding bands of a super cell, comparing band structures from multiple DFT calculations,
plotting partial density of states and generating a <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(k\)</span>-path for a given crystal structure.</p>
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