[Pw_forum] vc-relax with starting_magnetization

Paolo Giannozzi giannozz at democritos.it
Thu Mar 11 17:07:42 CET 2010


Bryan M. Wong wrote:

> when I do a vc-relax with starting_magnetization set to any 
> value, the 2nd step in the cell relaxation always reverts 
> to the spin-unpolarized case

what was the magnetization at the end of the first step?
if it was zero, this is the expected behavior. This is why,
by the way, a final step with nonzero starting polarization
is performed at the end of a structural optimization if the
spin polarization is zero.

P.
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Paolo Giannozzi, Democritos and University of Udine, Italy


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