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[Xavier Gonze <gonze@pcpm.ucl.ac.be>]

Dear Hongki,

hongki@physics.utexas.edu wrote:
> Dear Abinit Users,
>
> Is it possible to do calculations changing magnetization direction (with
> spin-orbit included)?
> I found a function called "fixmom" but it seems to me that it fixes only
> magnetic moment in z-direction.
> What I want to do is to change magnetization direction arbitrarily (not
> magnitude) and calculate energies or other properties for that given direction
> with spin-orbit coupling included.
>
> Thank you.
> Hongki Min

No, this is not possible. Actually, even without any constraint,
spin-orbit and non-collinear magnetism are presently exclusive
of each other in ABINIT. It should not be difficult to make
it work ... but it is not yet done ...

Xavier