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Löwdin population analysis from `DensityMatrix`

Open tfrederiksen opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Describe the feature Similar to the Mulliken population analysis already available for sisl.physics.DensityMatrix.mulliken and sisl.physics.EnergyDensityMatrix.mulliken it could be handy (and should be easy) to add also the related Löwdin population analysis (as performed by default in ORCA #500) to sisl.

From the Löwdin-transformed (orthogonalized) density matrix, i.e.,

$$ \rho^L_{\mu\nu} = [{\bf S}^{1/2} \rho {\bf S}^{1/2}]_{\mu\nu} $$

the Löwdin orbital- and atom-resolved populations are defined as $$L_{\mu} = \rho^L_{\mu\mu},$$ $$L_A = \sum_{\mu \in A} L_\mu.$$

tfrederiksen avatar Nov 07 '22 17:11 tfrederiksen