[DFTB-Plus-User] final magnetic moment for each atom in the system

[Robyn.Shi at csiro.au]

Many thanks Ben.


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From: dftb-plus-user-bounces at dftb-plus.info [dftb-plus-user-bounces at dftb-plus.info] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hourahine [benjamin.hourahine at strath.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, 15 March 2013 7:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [DFTB-Plus-User] final magnetic moment for each atom in the        system

Hello Robyn,

you need to make a Mulliken analysis, and then look at the spin up and spin down resolved
values from detailed.out. For colinear spins, this is just the difference in the net up and down
channel charges. In order to investigate different spin pattern, you will need to break spin
symmetries by setting the initial spin directions (see the manual for an example).

In anti-feromagnetic ordering the net spin is zero, but unless you initially set some spins to
be up and others to be down, the code will probably find a non magnetic state instead.
To realistically investigate the question of paramagnetism vs. feromagnetism etc. the first
step is probably to calculate effective Heisenberg model parameters by looking at energy
changes between different spin patterns. I'd suggest you look at some of the theoretical
literature on dilute magnetic semiconductors for a discussion of what is involved here,
papers by Satao and Katayama-Yoshida for example.

Regards

Ben

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From: dftb-plus-user-bounces at dftb-plus.info [dftb-plus-user-bounces at dftb-plus.info] On Behalf Of Robyn.Shi at csiro.au [Robyn.Shi at csiro.au]
Sent: 15 March 2013 02:24
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Subject: [DFTB-Plus-User] final magnetic moment for each atom in the system

Dear DFTB,

We did collinear spin polarization for our system and have got converged results. Might we ask you help to introduce how we can look at the final magnetic moment for each atom in the system, and furthremore to determine the magnetic properties, such as ferro, anti-ferro, or para?

Many thanks.

Best regards,

Robyn