Dear Hongyi, I think the P of 2P means that is a polarized oribital which belongs to n=2.
Best Guangping 2011-07-14 Guangping Zhang 发件人: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> 发送时间: 2011-07-14 20:05 主 题: [SIESTA-L] The meaning of 2Pdxz, 2Pdxy, 2Pdx2-y2, and so on. 收件人: siesta-l@uam.es Hi all, I let siesta write out the wavefunction for graphene and then I use the readwfx utility to extract the information from graphene.WFSX. Then I find something like the following in the result file: ==================================== Wavefunction = 2 Energy (eV) = -17.125661 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Atom Species Orb-global Orb-in-atom Orb-type Re(psi) Im(psi) 1 C 1 1 2s 0.227398 -0.393846 1 C 2 2 2s 0.036213 -0.062706 1 C 3 3 2py 0.076851 0.047412 1 C 5 5 2px -0.047406 0.076832 1 C 6 6 2py -0.236093 -0.145664 1 C 8 8 2px 0.145630 -0.236092 1 C 9 9 2Pdxy -0.029068 -0.017932 1 C 11 11 2Pdz2 0.003022 -0.005235 1 C 13 13 2Pdx2-y2 -0.017932 0.029066 2 C 14 1 2s 0.454581 0.013260 2 C 15 2 2s 0.072379 0.002105 2 C 16 3 2py -0.000000 0.090299 2 C 18 5 2px 0.090281 -0.000005 2 C 19 6 2py -0.000008 -0.277416 2 C 21 8 2px -0.277397 -0.000021 2 C 22 9 2Pdxy -0.000001 0.034154 2 C 24 11 2Pdz2 0.006042 0.000176 2 C 26 13 2Pdx2-y2 -0.034153 0.000000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wavefunction = 3 Energy (eV) = -15.231882 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Atom Species Orb-global Orb-in-atom Orb-type Re(psi) Im(psi) 1 C 3 3 2py -0.092695 -0.053524 1 C 5 5 2px -0.053528 0.092701 1 C 6 6 2py -0.214119 -0.123641 1 C 8 8 2px -0.123662 0.214166 1 C 9 9 2Pdxy 0.017771 0.010260 1 C 13 13 2Pdx2-y2 -0.010258 0.017762 2 C 16 3 2py -0.000006 0.107038 2 C 18 5 2px -0.107045 -0.000006 2 C 19 6 2py -0.000011 0.247253 2 C 21 8 2px -0.247305 -0.000017 2 C 22 9 2Pdxy -0.000002 0.020521 2 C 26 13 2Pdx2-y2 0.020511 0.000000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wavefunction = 4 Energy (eV) = -4.640938 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Atom Species Orb-global Orb-in-atom Orb-type Re(psi) Im(psi) 1 C 4 4 2pz 0.433839 -0.402835 1 C 7 7 2pz 0.080759 -0.074988 1 C 10 10 2Pdyz 0.046148 0.050250 1 C 12 12 2Pdxz -0.050246 0.046144 2 C 17 4 2pz -0.564889 -0.177423 2 C 20 7 2pz -0.105154 -0.033028 2 C 23 10 2Pdyz 0.020084 -0.065194 2 C 25 12 2Pdxz -0.065188 -0.020082 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================ As you can see, you can find some orbital types in the output like this: 2Pdxz, 2Pdxy, 2Pdx2-y2, and so on. What's the mean of 2P ( it is the capital letters "P", which is different from the symbol used for "p" orbital, the latter is denoted by lower case letter "p" ) in these orbital's names? Any hints will be highly appreciated. Best -- Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493