[Wien] excited state of a system

Stefaan Cottenier Stefaan.Cottenier at UGent.be
Thu May 6 12:27:04 CEST 2010


>                             I have a basic question regarding DFT. Say 
> for some system we calculate antiferromagnetic, ferromagnetic and non 
> spin polarized state and by comparing energy we find that the 
> antiferromagnetic state is the ground state. Now as ferromagnetic and 
> non spin polarized states are also two converged solutions of the system 
> can we consider them as some excited states which can be found at higher 
> temperature (other than  0K).....??

Yes. But the important word is: "which CAN be found". This is not "WILL 
be found".

Stefaan


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