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DOS problem

#1 Post by zhu » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:52 am

Dear all,
I calculated DOS with PAW POTCAR and set LORBIT=10. I found the sum of PDOS of all atoms was smaller than the DOS. What is wrong?
Thank you!
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#2 Post by admin » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:13 pm

this is not wrong (this issue has been discussed in the forum several times): the partial dos is calculated from the projected charges, integrated over spheres with r=RWIGS centered at the atoms' positions. as space is not filled up completely by the shperes, the sum of the partial DOS has to be smaller than the total DOS
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#3 Post by zhu » Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:28 am

I changed the RWIGS and eliminated the difference. Thank you.
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#4 Post by Danny » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:18 am

Please note that just increasing the RWIGS untill you have 100% is dangerous if you have different species of atoms (you will get signatures of the PDOS of atom A in the PDOS of atom B and vice versa)
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