[Pw_forum] scaling spin-orbit coupling

[Andrea Dal Corso]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 12:09 -0500, J. D. Burton wrote:
> Greetings,
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> I want to artificially increase/decrease the effects of spin-orbit coupling
> for pedagogical purposes (specifically, I want to artificially
> increase/decrease magnetocrystalline anisotropy in a certain magnetic
> system).   Is it sufficient to simply alter the value of 'cau_fact'  when
> generating the fully-relativistic US-PPs using ld1.x?
> 

Presently the increase/decrease of spin-orbit coupling is not
implemented. Changing cau_fact you increase/decrease all the
relativistic effects, both spin-orbit and the scalar relativistic
effects.

HTH,

Andrea


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