If an electron has negative Sz, its magnetic moment would be negative. Sz of majority spin electrons in your system is negative. Just flip the molecule (system) 180o (change direction of z coordinate) you will get positive magnetic moments (but you don't have to). -------------------------------------------------- Duy Le PhD Student Department of Physics University of Central Florida.
"Men don't need hand to do things" On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Padmaja Patnaik < padmaja_patnaik at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dear all > I have a doubt in the value obtained for local magnetic moment of the > atoms. The pdos.out file, towards its end shows the value of polarization on > each atom of the sample which gives us the value of local magnetic moment of > each atom. Many of these values are found to be negative in my calculations. > What does it mean? How can a magnetic moment value be negative? > > > Regards > Padmaja Patnaik > Research Scholar > Dept of Physics > IIT Bombay > Mumbai, India > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20100822/e4b2498d/attachment.htm
