X-ray Related Keywords in the Jaguar Input File

The keywords that are used for calculating X-ray Emission Spectroscopy (XES) based on Kohn-Sham Eigenvalues are shown in Table 1. See the paper by Hanson-Heine et al. for details.

Table 1. Keywords to describe the molecular state

Keyword

Value

Description

ixes_ks

0

Do not perform an XES calculation.

 

1

Perform an XES calculation.

xes_core

>0

Index of the core orbital to consider. The default is 1.

xes_ntransitions

>0

The number of transitions to consider starting from the HOMO. The default is 1.

xes_spin

alpha

Consider orbitals with alpha spin in UHF calculations.

 

beta

Consider orbitals with beta spin in UHF calculations.