# RandomSpin¶

class RandomSpin(scaled_spins=None)

Class for representing an initial spin configuration.

The initial scaled spin for each atom should be given as a number between -1 and 1 corresponding to the net spin-polarization in fractions of the atomic polarization according to Hund’s rule.

This should be either:

• A sequence of floating point numbers, whose position in the list corresponds to the atom index in the configuration
• A list of tuples each of an atom index and corresponding scaled spin value.
• A list of tuples each of a PeriodicTableElement object and a scaled spin value.
• A combination of the latter two.

For non-collinear spin systems the tuple has four numbers, atom index, scaled spin, theta, phi, where the latter two are spherical coordinates as PhysicalQuantity object of type Degree or Radians.

Parameters: scaled_spins (list) – The initial scaled spins for each atom. Default: 1.0 for each atom..

## Usage Examples¶

See InitialSpin for a detailed discussion on setting the initial spin.

## Notes¶

RandomSpin works essentially the same way InitialSpin does, except that the input parameter scaled_spins is used as a limit $$\alpha_i$$ for the initial spin polarization on each atom $$i$$ . The actual initial spin set for atom $$i$$ will be a random number in the interval $$[0,\alpha_i]$$ (or $$[\alpha_i,0]$$ if $$\alpha_i<0$$ ).