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I wanna to draw the patitial DOS. The electron configuration is 5d 6s. But I can see the p and f states density, which is not low. Can you tell me why?

sorry, your question is not precise enough: what system do you calculate (are there f-electrons in the valence shell such that the spd splitted DOS shows 16 (32) instead of 9 (18) DOS-columns)?

Yes, the number of column is 32(including f). But the valence electron configuration of one of the atoms is 5d 6s. So I guess the partitial DOS of the atom in f and p is nearly zero, right? But my result is wrong, not zero.

5d6s is the starting configuration of the POTCAR of the atom, your are correct. However, after having reached electronic convergence, it may well be possible that the self-consistent charge density gives small contributions of p and f- like projected charge densities as well. Please note that the l-like local DOS is calculated by projecting within the sphere with r=RWIGS located at a certain site. Due to the choice of RWIGS (pre-defined in POTCAR unless you use LORBIT<10 and give it explicitely in INCAR), it may well be possible that e.g. charge of adjactent atoms is counted to a certain atomic charge as well (eg if the distance between 2 adjacent atoms is smaller than the sum of their atomic radii). This may then yield unexpected l-like contributions (Please note that PAW-vasp does not use localized atomic orbitals, but projceted augmented waves!)