[Octopus-users] StaticElectricField block

Sherif Tawfik shtawfic at aucegypt.edu
Tue May 18 11:46:18 WEST 2010


What I am 100% sure of is: 3.2 uses V/Ang units.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:25 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Duan-Jun,
>
> Probably the units were different in the two cases. 3.0.1 specifies "Atomic
> units will be assumed always for its magnitude, regardless of the unit
> system specified." 3.2.0 however allows input in atomic or eV/Å units.
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Duan-Jun Cai <dcai at teor.fis.uc.pt> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>        Recently, I did the calculation with setting StaticElectricField
>> block in Version 3.2.0. I found that by compared with Version 3.0.1, the
>> result with the same electric field magnitude was 10-100 times smaller.
>> Could any one tell me what kind of change that has been made in the block
>> variables, unit?  How can I convert between each other?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Duan-Jun Cai
>>
>>
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