[Pw_forum] spin orbit and custom occupations

[Andrea Dal Corso]

With spin-orbit coupling states are not eigenstates of S_z,
so one cannot separate spin up and spin down. 
However when spin-orbit is small and magnetization is large the states
can be mainly spin up or mainly spin down and you can see this by
calculating the expectation value of \sigma_z (if the magnetization is
along z). This can be done with the band.x program.

HTH,

Andrea 

On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 18:33 +0200, Julen Larrucea wrote:
> Thanks Andrea,
> 
> 
> but this doesn't really solve my problem...
> 
> 
> I still can't find from example06 how to check the final occupations.
> 
> If I use nspin=4, which is supposed to be spin-polarized, unlike in
> the case of nspin=2, I only get a single row of occupations, like this
> 
>      occupation numbers 
>      1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000
> 1.0000
>      1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0000   1.0001   0.9219
> 0.1150
>     -0.0167  -0.0202   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000   0.0000
> 0.0000
> 
> 
> But which of them are up or down? or, how can I find out whether I
> have a singlet or a triplet in my single isolated atom?
> 
> 
>   Thanks in advance
> 
> 
>      Julen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Andrea Dal Corso <dalcorso at sissa.it>
> wrote:
>         constrained_magnetization='total'
>         
>         allows you to fix the magnetization vector. See example06 for
>         more
>         details.
>         
>         HTH,
>         
>         Andrea
>         
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 11:51 +0200, Julen Larrucea wrote:
>         > Dear colleagues,
>         > Does anybody know how to set precisely the occupations on a
>         spin orbit
>         > calculation (lspinorb=.true.)?
>         >
>         > I have tried to occupations='from_input' but it does not
>         read the
>         > minority spin line, and constrained- and tot_magnetization
>         do not seem
>         > to work either.
>         >
>         >
>         >   Thanks in advance
>         >
>         >
>         >     Julen
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