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Is the electron density and charge density are same in ATK???

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Re: difference between electron density and charge density??
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2018, 11:41 »
It is not the same. The electron density is the number of electrons per volume, so that you will have to multiply it by the elementary charge, e<0, to get the corresponding charge density. In atomic units, e=-1.