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I need a good zoom in of the valence band splitting of Silicon around the Gamma point when spin-orbit coupling is taken into consideration. Here is what I am doing:

The INCAR for the self consistent run is

PREC=high
ISIF=3
ISMEAR=-5
IBRION=-1
NSW=5
NBANDS=5

The KPOINTS is

8x8x8
0
mp
12 12 12
0 0 0

And then I run a non self consistent run with INCAR

PREC=high
ISMEAR=1
ISPIN=2
SAXIS=0 0 1
MAGMOM=0 0 1 0 0 1
ICHARG=11

And KPOINTS

k-points along high symmetry lines
200 ! 10 intersections
Line-mode
cart
.1 .1 .1 ! W
0 0 0 ! gamma
0 0 0 ! gamma
.1 0 0 ! X

I need to see a .044eV split off between one of the original triply degenerate bands and the other two stay degenerate at the top of the valence band but I get 3 non degenerate band values around Gamma neither of which are split by~.044eV.

What do you suggest?

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