The effect of the Gaunt interaction on the electricfield gradient M Pernpointner -Hyperfine local probe study of alkalineearth manganites SrMnO3 and BaMnO3 J N Gonçalves, V S Amaral, J G Correia et al.- Spin-orbit Motivation. -Precise nuclear quadrupole moments (Q) are essential not only for a detailed understanding of nuclei but also for any quantitative analysis of quadrupole interaction measurements in solids, molecules, or atoms. Normally only the product of Q with the electric-field gradient (EFG, major component V zz ) created by the electronic environment, the nuclear quadrupole coupling constant, ν Q = eQV zz /h, is experimentally available. Thus for determination of reliable values of V zz an accurate number for Q is needed. The EFG, however, is one of a few experimentally available direct measures of the charge distribution in matter. It essentially contains the information on the asymmetry in the local p- (or d-) orbitals, a property intimately related to chemical bonding.In order to obtain a reliable value for Q, on the other hand, V zz has to be calculated with a highly accurate theoretical method for at least one system where ν Q is well known. Quantum-mechanical methods have been generally quite successful in the interpretation of atomic and more recently also molecular data [1]. With the advent of density functional (DF) methods a possibility to routinely calculate EFGs in solids became available and for several