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Hi There,</div>
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I am a relatively new and unexperienced QE user and am having some difficulty understanding some of the specifics of non-collinear magnetic calculations. I want to perform some simple scf calculations on some non-collinear AFM spin configurations to compare
the energy of competing phases in a material I am studying. I need to specify the orientation and magnitude of the moment on 9 sites and while I understand how to specify orientations I am lost as to how to specify each moment. It seems to me that the variable
STARTING_MAGNETIZATION is of no use here. Can the variable CONSTRAINED_MAGNETISM be used here?</div>
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I also have a secondary question about scf and nscf estimates of the Fermi energy. For the non-magnetic case I have performed a full geometric optimization and also have tested convergence with respect to my k-mesh, degauss value and basis set size yet when
I calculate the DOS it gives me a Fermi level that is 1eV lower than for the scf calculation. Is the DOS estimate reliable? Why would these not agree?</div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Felix Frontini</div>
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