Because the magnitude of spin-orbit effects grows as the square of the atomic number (see e.g., Landau and Lifschitz, Quantum Mechanics, Sec. 72, 4th unnumbered Eq. after Eq. 72.3). SB On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Padmaja Patnaik wrote:
> Hi All > > I have a querry regarding spin orbit coupling. While doing calcualtions with > a semiconductor with a heavy element as impurity, is it necessary to do > spin-orbit coupling? I am using scalar-relavistic pseudopotential for the > impurity element. > > Thanks in advance. > 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 --- Stefano Baroni - SISSA & DEMOCRITOS National Simulation Center - Trieste http://stefano.baroni.me [+39] 040 3787 406 (tel) -528 (fax) / stefanobaroni (skype) La morale est une logique de l'action comme la logique est une morale de la pens?e - Jean Piaget Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or PowerPoint attachments Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/pw_forum/attachments/20110609/c0edf63e/attachment.htm