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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mr. Hosseini,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I am not sure what type the local charges and magnetizations QE prints by default, but you should use a widely accepted method to calculate local charges, such as Bader analysis. I should note that there is no “correct”
way to calculate a local charge. However, there are many ways to calculate charges developed by the community, each with it’s own drawbacks (see Wikipedia link below.) I’d recommend using Bader charges, DDEC6, or the lowden charges printed out from the projwfc.x
code in the quantum espresso suite(links below.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_charge">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_charge</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://theory.cm.utexas.edu/henkelman/code/bader/">http://theory.cm.utexas.edu/henkelman/code/bader/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddec/files/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddec/files/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://phya.snu.ac.kr/~nmcuong/board/physics/INPUT_PROJWFC.html">http://phya.snu.ac.kr/~nmcuong/board/physics/INPUT_PROJWFC.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Hope it helps,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ben Comer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Georgia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">>Dear All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">>I need to compute local charge of atoms in my unit cell. As I checked, the output of SCF provides local charge with the corresponding >magnetization. The numbers are confusing. How can I compute the local charge?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">>M.R.Hosseini<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">>Tarbiat Modares University, Department of Chemistry, Iran<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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