[Wien] check: charge units in aim and lapw5

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Wed Nov 16 09:30:32 CET 2005


> :RHOTOT for IND-ATOM  16  Z= 23.0  CHARGE:  23.00595  -0.00595
> so does this mean that there are 23.00595 electrons within this atomic basin?

Yes, it does.

> In the output of lapw5 (case.rho), is the charge reported in (number of
> electrons per unit volume) or is it in (charge per unit volume) ?

An electron density has the units of  e/Ang^3 or e/bohr^3 (depending on
your case.in5)

                                      P.Blaha
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