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["Kwan-Woo Lee" <kwlee@ucdavis.edu>]

Dear Xavier Gonze,

Iam very appreciating for your kind response, always.
Because here is nobody having used ABINIT by me, I asked to you with 
(sometimes) stupid questions serveral times.
Thanks to your help, I could cope with problems.

thank you again,

Kwan-Woo Lee



> Dear Kwan-Woo Lee,
> 
> Kwan-Woo Lee wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Is there anyone knowing the unit of Oscillator strengths (and eigen
> > vectors) obatined 
> > from IFC ?
> > I cannot find the information  about it in ABINIT package and homepage.
> > (From the paper PRB. 55,10355(1996) by Xavier Gonze and Changyol Lee,  
It
> > looks like both may not be dimesionless.)
> 
> Atomic units are used in that paper : 1 atomic unit for
> the oscillator strength is
> 0.342036 m3/s2 (my thanks to Gian-Marco !). THis information
> will be placed in the output file.
> The phonon eigenvectors are normalized according to Eq.(51)
> of that paper (thus the dimension is apparently the inverse square root
> of an atomic mass). Do not forget that a normalisation is a convention !
> 
> Good continuation,
> Xavier
>