[Wien] Physical significance of magnetization direction with -so

[Fecher, Gerhard]

The results should depend, indeed.
they give you for example the difference between easy (lowest energy) and hard (highest energy) direction.


>From the different total energies for different directions you find the anisotropy energies, see textbooks on magnetism by Coey or Getzlaff.
It may need brute force numbers of k points as remarked by Kübler in his textbook

Ciao
Gerhard

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An elementary question: do the results of -so depend upon the magnetization direction used in initso, or should they in principle be independent of it?

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