Now the noncolin=0 lspinorb=1 case in ABACUS let the mag moment is constrained along the Z direction, which means that the mag moment can be only set to up or down along Z axis.
This kind of implementation largely limit the power of ABACUS. Given the magnetic moment is limited to the Z direction have been implemented now, it can be eaily found that the magnetic moment can be limited to any direction indeed. I sugguest that there should be a new parameter to set the easy axis of magnetic moment in the SOC colinear calculation, which is important in magnetic calculations.
Thus, a 3d vector parameter in xyz coordinates called easy_axis or spin_axis could be added to define the direction of magnetic moments to be limited.
This case is not as complicated as the constrained spin polarized case which contrained atoms one by one. The parameter noncolin=0 lspinorb=1 is still not changed which means that all the magnetic moments are constrained along one same line. Just add a direction which can be modified by users.
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Now the
noncolin=0 lspinorb=1
case in ABACUS let the mag moment is constrained along the Z direction, which means that the mag moment can be only set to up or down along Z axis.This kind of implementation largely limit the power of ABACUS. Given
the magnetic moment is limited to the Z direction
have been implemented now, it can be eaily found that the magnetic moment can be limited to any direction indeed. I sugguest that there should be a new parameter to set the easy axis of magnetic moment in the SOC colinear calculation, which is important in magnetic calculations.Thus, a 3d vector parameter in xyz coordinates called
easy_axis
orspin_axis
could be added to define the direction of magnetic moments to be limited.This case is not as complicated as the constrained spin polarized case which contrained atoms one by one. The parameter
noncolin=0 lspinorb=1
is still not changed which means that all the magnetic moments are constrained along one same line. Just add a direction which can be modified by users.One can refer to the implementation of vasp SAXIS - VASP Wiki and VASP中的非线性磁性计算总结
Now the
noncolin=0 lspinorb=1
case is:The Constraint DFT for collinear spin polarized calculations does not consider the case of
noncolin=0 lspinorb=1 nspin=4
:Describe the solution you'd like
Provide a 3d vector parameter to modify the global spin quantisation axis in
noncolin=0 lspinorb=1 nspin=4
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