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I'm trying to study the effects of changes in the oxidation and spin states of a specific iron atom in a device on conductivity. How can I control an atom's oxidation and spin states in VNL?
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June 18, 2013, 02:32 »
The oxidation state of atom cannot be specified because the possible charge distribution around atom in a system will be determined self-consistently in the ATK-DFT. The spin state of atom can specified by calling "InitialSpin(scaled_spins)".
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Thanks for the quick reply; that makes sense.
How can I output the calculated oxidation and spin states to the log file?
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You may do the Mulliken population analysis to to obtain the charge (up-spin and down-spin) of each atom. Then you can roughly estimate the oxidation state and spin state.
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Thank you for your help!
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