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Spin polarised calculations



Dear all,

I'm interested in carrying out Xanes and LDOS calculations of simple rock salt materials before moving on to more complicated structures.

I've been able to do spin-polarised calculations through the straightforward operation of the spin card, and have found this has given me pretty good data to date (after a bit of wrangling!) -simply doing one calculation with SPIN 2, another with SPIN -2, and plotting against each other gives the ferromagnetic up and down spin LDOS respectively.

I'm now interested in carrying out antiferromagnetic spin-polarised calculations. The problem is, i'm not sure how to allocate spins to particular atoms in my feff input file.

It seems to be pretty obvious that in, say, chromium nitride, CrN, i would need to assign different Cr atoms as either spin up and some as spin down, but i don't know how that would be done in the input file.

I'm hoping someone can offer a bit of assistance, maybe even supply a sample of an antiferromagnetic calculation feff.inp file?

I'm attaching a sample input file of my ferromagnetic calculation to give you an idea of "where i'm at". I suppose a very keen person could modify it to show me what to do, but i realise everyone's probably pretty busy.

Many thanks for any response,

Dave Eustace