[Pw_forum] "nelec" variable

[Giovanni Cantele]

Roberto G. A. Veiga wrote:

> I supposed it is the number of valence electrons of the unit cell. Am 
> I right?
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 From the INPUT_PW documentation file:

nelec          REAL
               number of electron in the unit cell
               (may be noninteger if you wish)
               Default: the same as ionic charge (neutral cell)
               A compensating jellium background is inserted
               to remove divergencies if the cell is not neutral

Changing nelec you can consider charged systems.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes
Giovanni

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