<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would like just to have confirmation about the units used by QE for electric field within two different approaches:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) sawtooth potential </div><div class="">from the documentation I see Amplitude of the electric field, in ***Hartree*** a.u.;<div class="">1 a.u. = 51.4220632*10^10 V/m</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That means that 1 V / A = 1 / 51.4220632 = 0.019447 => eamp = 0.019447 in this example</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) ESM method with esm_bc = ‘bc2’</div><div class="">from the documentation I read "magnitude of the electric field [Ry/a.u.] to be applied</div><div class="">between semi-infinite ESM electrodes.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That means that 1 V / A = 2 / 51.4220632 = 0.038894</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, if I want to test both methods, I should use in the former case a value of eamp, in the latter twice this value.</div><div class="">Is it right?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for support,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Giovanni</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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