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jiarui

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Registered: 2025-02-03

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The unit of PDOS (density-of-states)

Hi,

I am currently using Multiwfn to plot the density of states (DOS) and would like to clarify the unit of the y-axis in the generated DOS plots.

Could somebody kindly confirm what unit is used for the DOS y-axis in Multiwfn? Your clarification would be greatly appreciated.

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Tian Lu (Multiwfn developer)

From: Beijing

Registered: 2017-09-11

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Re: The unit of PDOS (density-of-states)

You don't need to worry about the unit. Unit of DOS is useless (you can simply label it as arbitrary unit), only relative height between different positions is of interest.