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XAS: Add Documentation Warning for Charged Systems
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Adds a note to the documentation for the XAS plugin regarding charged systems and provides some suggestions for how to handle them.
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PNOGillespie authored Oct 25, 2024
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* The normalised & weighted spectrum. (with respect to ratio of site multiplicity to total multiplicity)
* The normalised & un-weighted spectrum.

Additional Note on Charged Systems
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Computing XANES spectra for systems where a charge has been applied (in this case using the `Total charge` advanced setting) is possible using the tools
available in the QE App, however such workflows should always be tested by the user against experimental data if possible.

When running XAS workflows for systems where a total charge has been applied, it is suggested to use the following settings for the total charge to ensure the corresponding
core-hole treatment is applied correctly:

* "xch_fixed" or "xch_smear": Set the total charge as required for the system's charged ground-state.
* "full": **Increase** the total charge by 1 *relative* to the system's charged ground-state (e.g. set total charge = 2 in the advanced settings tab if the charge is normally 1).

Note that for neutral systems (total charge = 0), the QE App will handle these settings automatically.

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