<div dir="ltr">It might be a case that you should fine tuning the software you use to plot the wavefunction.<div><br></div><div>I usually export as .cube and load the orbitals using the jmol for high quality image.</div><div><br></div><div>Try typing these commands on the jmol console:</div><div><br></div><div><div>load 'FILE.cube' </div><div>background white </div><div>isosurface NICKNAME_1 cutoff 0.009 color deepskyblue file '' <br></div><div>isosurface NICKNAME_2 cutoff -0.0009 color red file '' <br></div><div><br></div><div>As you can see, I can define different cutoff to drawn the "positive" and "negative" parts of the wavefunction.</div><div>When you consider the figure is what you want, then type<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>write povray 'ANYNAME.pov'</div></div><div><br></div><div>It will generate a very good high quality image.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope it helps you finding what you want.</div><div><br></div><div>You might also consider study a very good tutorial (IMHO) provided by professor Heather Kulik, from MIT, at the link below:</div><div><a href="http://hjklol.mit.edu/content/visualizing-molecular-orbitals">http://hjklol.mit.edu/content/visualizing-molecular-orbitals</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Filipe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Lorenzo Paulatto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorenzo.paulatto@impmc.upmc.fr" target="_blank">lorenzo.paulatto@impmc.upmc.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/31/2014 10:39 PM, Arpan Kundu wrote:<br>
> Hi users,<br>
><br>
> I want to plot the HOMO, LUMO wavefunction of H2O in QE. But the pp.x<br>
> plots the charge density instead of the exact wavefunction. I mean the<br>
> wavefunction should have a positive part and a negative part. But when<br>
> I plot pp.x with a plot_num=7, it plots the contribution of the<br>
> wavefunction to the charge density and it is mostly positive. Thanks a<br>
> lot for your help.<br>
><br>
><br>
</span>Hi Arpan,<br>
the manual of PP is only a couple of pages long, it's better to read it<br>
to the end:<br>
<<a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/INPUT_PP.html#idp42384" target="_blank">http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/INPUT_PP.html#idp42384</a>><br>
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kind regards<br>
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