NUPDOWN tag in vasp for heterostructures?

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NUPDOWN tag in vasp for heterostructures?

#1 Post by ashima29 » Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:26 pm

Can anyone help me to set the NUPDOWN tag in vasp for vdW heterostructures ( two monolayers), I want to see the variation of total energy verses magnetic moment?

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Re: NUPDOWN tag in vasp for heterostructures?

#2 Post by admin » Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:09 pm

NUPDOWN always fixes the total magnetic moment of the unit cell, it is not possible to
disentangle the any structure-related contributions from NUPDOWN. You can however ESTIMATE
the contributions of the monolayers by summing up the local moments (please remind how these
quantities are obtained in the PAW method!)

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