[Pw_forum] Doubt in spin-orbit coupling results

[Padmaja Patnaik]

Hi All

I am doing spin-orbit coupling calculations. To get 
spin-polarized calculations with spin-orbit coupling I mentioned in the 
input for scf,
 lspinorb=.true.,
 noncolin=.true.,
 starting_magnetization(1)=0.5,
 starting_magnetization(2)=0.5,
After
 this scf calculations I am doing the nscf calculation and finally the 
density of states and partial density of states. What I expect is it 
should give me both up and down spin DOS separately but I didnt get 
that. The input,  
nspin=2 in the input and get spin polarized results with both up and 
down spin density of states given separately which can be plotted. Can anybody please suggest what to do? Another doubt is the total magnetic moment is found to be zero (with spin-orbit interaction) which was earlier (without spin-orbit interaction) found to be 2 BohrMagneton./cell. 


Thanking in advance,
regards 

Padmaja Patnaik
Research Scholar
Dept of Physics
IIT Bombay
Mumbai, India
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