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by photon
Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:09 am
Forum: Ground state
Topic: problem with adatom
Replies: 0
Views: 1480

problem with adatom

Hello. I am trying to add 1 atom (more in future..) to the surface of quartz (SiO2) I use 36 atoms of SiO2 and 1 atom of C. Thickness of quartz layer is 5.457 A and then layer of vacuum of the thickness 10.914 A When there is no C atom SCF cycles converges very good. But when I put this C atom, ther...
by photon
Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:15 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: crystal structure
Replies: 3
Views: 3177

Re: crystal structure

Thank you for the reply.
I did not know there is a difference between primitive unit cell and conventional unit cell.
I will read about this.
Thank you one more time!
by photon
Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:48 pm
Forum: Ground state
Topic: crystal structure
Replies: 3
Views: 3177

crystal structure

Hello. Could somebody please help me to understand. In input file there is xred defining atoms positions. But why there is only two positions in tutorial 3 for silicon crystal (code is below) ? with only translational symmetries there is no way to construct crystal from only these two positions! And...