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[Ari Kay <akay@uclink.berkeley.edu>]

Hello,
   My name is Ari Kay and I am a graduate student at the University of
California, Berkeley.  I am currently working on a project that involves
straining silicon on the {111} plane in the <11-2> direction.  I am looking at
the density of states as a fucntion of this strain.  I used a simulation
package with an LDA psuedopotential that I am afraid will give a band gap that
is too small.  I would like to know if the GW potentials in ABINIT are used to
calculate the total energy of the system, or if it is only used to calculate
the electronic energy.

Ari Kay