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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ifw-dresden.de/userfiles/groups/itf_folder/Theses/carsten_neise_phd.pdf">https://www.ifw-dresden.de/userfiles/groups/itf_folder/Theses/carsten_neise_phd.pdf</a></p>
    <p>I remember that there was this post on MAE:<br>
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    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09408.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/wien@zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/msg09408.html</a><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/20/2020 12:21 AM, Xavier
      Rocquefelte wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:e1777ade-eead-1930-052a-99e74972611d@univ-rennes1.fr">And
      another comment. Applying the magnetization along a high symmetry
      direction does not mean that you will apply SOC in the direction
      for which the effect will be maximum... It is why, people study
      the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy (MAE).
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      Best regards
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      Xavier
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      Le 20/05/2020 à 08:07, Peter Blaha a écrit :
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      <blockquote type="cite">I think nobody really understands your
        question.
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        Obviously for a hexagonal system the c-axis is a very high
        symmetry direction. This corresponds to  0 0 1
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        Of course, the a (or b) direction is also a special direction,
        but it will break hexagonal symmetry as the a and b directions
        will no longer be equivalent. So when you choose 1 0 0, in many
        cases the symmetry will be automatically reduced by symmetso.
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        Am 20.05.2020 um 05:30 schrieb Nileema Sharma:
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        <blockquote type="cite">Dear WIEN2k users and developers!!
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          I am working on a hexagonal system, I would like to know in
          which direction(s) should I apply SOC so that it would
          represent high symmetry crystallographic direction, for the
          calculation of the energy in that particular direction?
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          Best regards.
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          Thank you!!
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          Nileema Sharma
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