[SIESTA-L] PDOS showing occupation in the "d" orbital in SiN

[Weslley Souza Patrocinio]

Hello people,

I'm learning how to use the pdosxml and I found one issue with the results
of PDOS: I'm extracting the projected DOS from a silicon nitride
calculation, and when I get the PDOS per atom species (N or Si) I have
contribution of the "*d*" orbital (l = 2). However, Si and N atoms does not
have electron occupying *d* orbitals. So, what means this result ? The
contribution of states with l=2 are numerical residues ? Or really there is
occupation of the d orbitals in the Siesta calculation ?

Thanks for your time,

Weslley.