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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">There is one problem I am not clear about DFPT in external electronmagnetic field. How to switch on the external field since the field will distroy the translational symmetry(periodic boundary condition ). </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>There a two way right now : one is add a dipole layer in vaccum layers , this method can only be used in slab calculation </blockquote>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>the other is to add a periodic field and at the end make the periodic to infinite (long wave appriximation). Vanderbilt also made a proposal using the Berry phase approach,</blockquote>
</div><br> My question is in PWSCF how the electronic field is added , and whether the method can be used in metal system ? thank you<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely Y. M. Qian <br>Lab.of Condensed Matter Theory and Materials Computation <br>
Institute of Physics <br>Chinese Academy of Sciences<br>Tel: + 8610 8264 9147<br><a href="mailto:E-Mail%3Ayuminqian@gmail.com">E-Mail:yuminqian@gmail.com</a> <br>P.O.Box 603 Beijing 100190<br>China <br><br></div>