Figure 3. Atom and orbital decomposed band structures of VS₂ (left hand side panels), VSe₂ (middle panels), and VTe₂ (right hand side panels) from GGA with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) included self-consistently.

The upper panels are the atom-decomposed band structures with the green and blue colors denote the components from V and X ions, respectively. The middle panels and bottom panels are the orbital decomposed band structures for V and X ions, respectively. The colors represent the contributions from different orbitals as indicated in the figures.