[Pw_forum] non collinear magnetism

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:26, Cyrille Barreteau wrote:

> I have a question concerning non-collinear magnetism and
> example 13. In the two cases fe.pen.in and fe.angl.in
> the system is made of a simple bcc iron with only one atom per
> unit cell, therefore I do not really see the meaning of
> non-collinear magnetism.
> If there is no spin-orbit all direction are equivalent and therefore
> the direction of magnetization is arbitrary. In that case I do not
> understand the meaning of imposing a spin direction...

those examples are there for testing purposes only, I think

> By the way is spin-orbit implemented in pwscf?

it will be soon; it is already available in the CVS version, at you risk

Paolo

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