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Dear VASP Community,

In the VASP manual, it says:

If LORBMOM=.TRUE. is set VASP will use the projectors of the PAW potentials to calculate the orbital moment within the PAW spheres, and write them to the OUTCAR file.

Has this method of calculating magnetic moments in VASP been detailed in any VASP-related literature?

Thanks,
Vahid

You could look into following papers:
O. Bengone, M. Alouani, P. Blöchl, and J. Hugel, Phys. Rev. B 62, 16392 (2000)
and
A. Rohrbach, J. Hafner, and G. Kresse J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15, 979 (2003).

If the answer is not in one of those papers than it was most likely never published.