Electronic charge density around the Fermi level

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Seba Darshan
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Electronic charge density around the Fermi level

Post by Seba Darshan » Wed Jan 06, 2016 7:54 am

Hai Abinit users,

I would like to know how can I plot the charge density around the Fermi level. Using cut3d, I generated the .xsf file and I got only the total density. I wish to know whether I could get the energy projected density using the cut3d utility of Abinit.

Any comments on the above are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Seba

temok
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Re: Electronic charge density around the Fermi level

Post by temok » Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:51 am

Hi Seba,

You can get the density associated with each band by doing a multi-dataset run, using

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ndataset  <n> # as many datasets as (occupied bands * nspinor)
charge   # set such that you establish charge balance in your system
occopt  0

# Set occ such that you turn off all but one band.
# put as many columns as (occupied bands * nspinor)
# for example, for nspinor = 1,
occ1  2.0  0.0  0.00 ...
occ2  0.0  2.0  0.00 ...
occ3  0.0  0.0  2.00 ...
.
.
.
occ<n> 0.0  0.0  .... 2.0

then you will get <n> different _DEN files; each _DEN will be associated with a given band. Now you can process them with CUT3D and get the "charge density-per-band". I guess what you need is that associated with the upper occupied band.

Cheers,
Temok

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