augmentation charge term in dipole matrix elements

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hlee
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augmentation charge term in dipole matrix elements

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Dear developers:

I have one simple question on calculation of dipole matrix elements in the Bloch representation.
I found that this calculation is done in the subroutine of compute_pmn_para in pw2wan90epw.f90.

Well, unlike in the calculation of Amn and Mmn, it seems that the terms of augmentation charges in USPP irrespective of spin-orbit coupling is not considered. Although the becp array is set up, it is not used.

Is this missing guaranteed not to give rise to problem?

Sincerely,

Hyungjun Lee
Postdoc in EPFL

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Re: augmentation charge term in dipole matrix elements

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After checking the website, I realised that support of USPP will be done in the next release (v4.3); I checked the version of 4.2.

Sorry for inconveniences.

Sincerely,

Hyungjun Lee
Postdoc in EPFL

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Re: augmentation charge term in dipole matrix elements

Post by sponce »

Dear Hyungjun Lee,

Thank you for your interest in the EPW code.

Indeed, this is scheduled for the next EPW v4.3 version.

Best,
Samuel
Prof. Samuel Poncé
Chercheur qualifié F.R.S.-FNRS / Professeur UCLouvain
Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences
UCLouvain, Belgium
Web: https://www.samuelponce.com

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