[Wien] Error in Vorb

Stefaan Cottenier Stefaan.Cottenier at fys.kuleuven.ac.be
Thu Jun 19 14:10:58 CEST 2003


> "orbital polarization" is a method to overcome some limitations of LDA.
>
> It turns out that e.g. for Fe the orbital moment (due to the d
electrons!!!!)
> is too small in regular LDA spin-orbit calculations. "Orbital
polarization"
> (I would recommend to use LDA+U instead!!!) is a method which improves
this and
> gives larger orbital moments (and thus orbital fields).

Are you aware of people/papers that have done LDA+U on Fe for this purpose ?

Thanks,
Stefaan




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