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Re: [abinit-forum] How to apply electric field?

From: "Anglade Pierre-Matthieu" <anglade@gmail.com>
To: forum@abinit.org
Subject: Re: [abinit-forum] How to apply electric field?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:38:09 +0100
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Hi,
I'm not able to answer all your question but usually abinit uses
atomic unit. If you give a look too
http://www.abinit.org/Infos_v5.1/input_variables/vargs.html#efield
you'll see that: 1 a.u. of electric field= 514220624373.482 V/m. I
hope that this helps answer part 2 of your question.

Regards

--
Pierre-Matthieu Anglade

from yshtogun@cas.usf.edu:

2. The manual explains that the electric field must be increased
gradually by some order when making selfconsistent runs. What is the
significance of that? What are the physical units used as an input
number in the code, in other words, if E=0.0001 does that mean that it
is Volts per Angstrom?

Re: [abinit-forum] How to apply electric field?, Anglade Pierre-Matthieu, 03/01/2006