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    Thank you for this hint Dr. Rebaza. You are absolutely right using
    the total_magnetization flag for this system.<br>
    Neither non-collinear magnetization nor spin-orbit coupling is
    required for my calculations, therefore <br>
    we can set nspin to 2 and fix only the magnitude of the
    magnetization, because without spin orbit,<br>
    no direction is preferred. <br>
    <br>
    The &cell and &ions namelists are simply set in my 'master
    template file' I use for all calculations on a<br>
    system. In case of a simple scf calculation, these cards are ignored
    anyways...so I just keep them in the<br>
    input file. <br>
    <br>
    Thanks again for the paper, they did exactly what I needed to know
    :)<br>
    <br>
    In case anyone is interested in more information on that stoner
    stuff, this is the book you want to have a look at:<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-82499-9">http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-82499-9</a><br>
    <br>
    <br>
    Best regards from Germany,<br>
    <br>
    Rene Wirnata<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 7/24/2014 12:00 AM, schrieb Arles V.
      Gil Rebaza:<br>
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          style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi Rene
          Wirnata, I think that you must to obtaind the total energy
          (Et) vs total magnetic moment (MT) and fot with a curve of 4to
          order (Ax^4 + Bx^2+C). The coeficient of the  cuadratic term
          (B) is related with the stones parameter. So, to get this
          curve you must to do scf calculations for each MT value using
          fixed spin calculations (use "total_magnetization" in QE).</span>
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          <font face="arial, sans-serif">Maybe this paper could help
            you: </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.014416">http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.74.014416</a></span>
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                style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In
                your input file,</span><span
                style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> if you are doing
                SCF calculation, why you use </span></div>
            <div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><font
                face="arial, sans-serif">&cell</font></div>
            <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">    press_conv_thr = 0.1</font></div>
            <div><font face="arial, sans-serif">these tag is for
                vc-relax calculations</font></div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div> why ...</div>
            <div>
              <div>&electrons</div>
              <div>    mixing_mode='TF'</div>
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            <div>try with the default setting "plain"</div>
            <div><br>
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            <div>
              <div>nspin       = 4  .... are you performing
                non-collinear calculations.??</div>
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            <div>I hope I've helped </div>
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            <div>Best.</div>
            <div><br>
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            <div>Dr. Arles V. Gil Rebaza</div>
            <div>Instituto de Física La Plata</div>
            <div>Argentina.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-23 11:44 GMT-03:00 Rene Wirnata
          <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:renewirnata@gmx.de" target="_blank">renewirnata@gmx.de</a>></span>:<br>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi @ all!<br>
              <br>
              Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on this topic with
              google, so I have to ask here:<br>
              <br>
              Currently, I try to test the stoner criterion for the
              Al5Fe2 system and therefore I set<br>
              <b><i>"constrained_magnetization = 'total',
                  fixed_magnetization(3) = i, lambda = 1.d0"</i></b><br>
              where i = {0.0 .. 2.2}. This setup will first of all tell
              me in the output file that I have to <br>
              set <b>nspin = 4</b>, setting it to sth. else won't work,
              I already tested. Now the problem is <br>
              none of these calculations will converge doing max. 100
              iterations. Even if I set <br>
              <b>lambda =</b><b> 0.1</b>, there's no big change as you
              can see in the output files. <br>
              <br>
              Further, the documentation tells me:<br>
              a) for LDA potentials use <b>tot_magnetization</b>,
              --> mine is GGA, so stay with <b>contrained_mag</b><b>...</b><br>
              b) if I used <b>tot_magnetization</b> then I shouldn't
              use <b>starting_magnetization</b>, so maybe this <br>
              could help? But to what number should I set it, because
              for every atom in my cell it will<br>
              become different during the iterations.<br>
              <br>
              Unfortunately, no one in my institut ever did such
              calculations before and I am<br>
              myself still a total beginner with pwscf, so pls excuse if
              the question is stupid :).<br>
              <br>
              Thanks a lot in advance!<br>
              <br>
              Best regards from Germany,<br>
              <br>
              Rene Wirnata<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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                  Attachements see here:<br>
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