[Pw_forum] Wave function to charge density

[Stefano de Gironcoli]

the charge density is calculated in PW/sum_band.f90
the meaning of igk, nls, nl (that is the way they should be used in 
order to go from the indexing of evc to the fft grid)
is exemplified there.
hope this helps,
 stefano

Dmitry Korotin wrote:
> Dear ESPRESSO developers,
> Could you explain me meaning and usage on nls(), nl() and igk()
> arrays? Or, please answer on my concrete question:
> I have some Wannier-function stored in array wf(1:npwx). The order of
> plane waves in the array index is the same that used for evc() array.
> Now I want to generate charge density of my Wannier-function in
> G-space and add it to the total charge density in the cell (I can do
> it in the routine electrons() before charge densities mixing).
>
> It is clear that rho_{g,g'} = \sum_k wk*wf(g)*wf^{*}(g')
> But how to convert this square array to linear array rhognew(ngm) form
> used in the code (file electrons.f90)?
>   
> I know that my question is strongly technical, and, I think, not
> interesting for other community members, but I have no other place to
> ask.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Dmitry Korotin
> PhD student,
> Institute of Metal Physics,
> Ural branch of RAS,
> Russia
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