[Wien] lapw2 question

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Dec 19 22:13:07 CET 2013


no, you don't need   -orb for lapw2 (this is an experimental feature).

Yes, of course -so is important if you want the density (or qtls) from a SO-calculation

Am 19.12.2013 21:23, schrieb Oliver Albertini:
> Hello,
>
> Looking at the User Guide, under the section about lapw2, it appears that the options for running it are
>
> x lapw2 [-c -up|dn -p -so -qtl -fermi -efg -hf -band -eece
> -vresp -help files -emin X -all X Y]
>
> but when running DFT+U, I see in the dayfile
>
>  >   lapw2 -dn -p     -orb       (11:37:30) running LAPW2 in parallel mode
>
> My question is, when running 'x lapw2 -qtl' or 'x lapw2 -emin xxx' for DOS or electron/spin density of a DFT+U calculation, do we need the -orb flag? And also, I have the
> same question with regard to calculations with spin-orbit coupling. Is the -so flag needed in that case?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Oliver Albertini
>
>
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