<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br></div>This is Sayan. I am new to Quantum espresso.<br></div>I want to calculate DOS structure for a magnetic system and need to use the starting_magnetization parameter.<br></div>I am confused since I read it can be calculated for individual atom in the system by applying the following formula,<br></div>(NVU - NVD)/(NVU+NVD) (NVD and NVU are the number of no. of valance electron in up and down state).<br></div>and it should be within -1 to +1.<br></div>Now applying the formula how can possibly it be -ve?<br></div>And
also in some tutorial I have seen that for Silicon the value of the
parameter has been used as 0.7, which should be 0.5 if I follow the
formula. <br></div><div>It will very helpful if somebody can tell me what is the exact procedure to calculate the same.<br></div>Thanks in advance.<img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"><br><br></div>Sayan Chaudhuri<br></div>