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["Anglade Pierre-Matthieu" <anglade@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 8/11/06, Huiyong Deng <hydeng2007@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Abinit friends,
>
> This is my 2nd email to you! Firstly, I would like to thank Anglade
> Pierre-Matthieu for his advice!
You welcome

> This time, my questions are as following:
> (1) Can ABINIT be used to investigate the structural and electronic
> properties of the narrower band gap (about 0.5eV) semiconductor?

Certainly. Use GW for this.

> (2) Can ABINIT be used to investigate the magnetic materials?

You have both spin polarized and colinear spin within abinit

> (3) I'm a  CASTEP user and have some knowledges about DFT, but I'm a novice
> at ABINIT. Has ABINIT  almost the same fuctions as CASTEP? How do I quickly
> mast ABINIT? Can you give me some advices?

I don't know about CASTEP and then can't answer for the first part. of
your question For the second it's quite easy: see
http://abinit/Infos_v4.6/Tutorial/welcome.html
where you will find both generic tutorials and more specialised things
like lessons on GW which might be of uttermost interest for your work.

> sincerely
> Thanks!
> Xiao Deng


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Pierre-Matthieu Anglade