<div>Well-beloved Prof. Blaha,</div>
<div> Thank you very much for your instruction.</div>
<div> Best regards.</div>
<div> Yours sincerely,</div>
<div> Jian Zhu<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/11/30, Peter Blaha <<a href="mailto:pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at">pblaha@theochem.tuwien.ac.at</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I have not done such calculations myself. So you really must study the<br>literature and there are many examples well described (I think there are
<br>at least papers by Mehl or D.Singh on these topics.)<br>> (1) Which vector should be chosen to be mutiplied with the<br>> strain matrix, primitive cell vectors or conventional cell vectors? For<br>> the cubic structure,for example the TiC, the primitive cell vector is
<br>> different with the conventional cell vector. Please give me a clear<br>> instruction about this point.<br><br>I guess you can do it either way. More convenient is working with<br>convential cell.<br>> (2) You said the strain matrix must be in the same system as the
<br>> bravais matrix. Here, is the bravais matrix is the conventional bravais<br>> matrix? Or primitive bravais matrix? Which should be chosen?<br>> Furthermore, taking the TiC as an example, the bravais matrix of TiC
<br>> should be cubic system, but the tetragonal train matrix and the<br>> rhombohedral train matrix are chosen in the automatic calculation of<br>> elastic constants by wien2k. Why?<br><br>I don't understand this question.
<br>Of course, a certain strain matrix will lead to tetragonal or<br>rhombohedral lattices. You cannot stay in cubic symmetry and get an<br>information about an uniaxial strain.<br><br>> (3) Comparing with the cartesian coordinates and fractional
<br>> coordinates of the original structure, will the respective coordinates<br>> change of the distorted structure? If they do change, how will they<br>> change, respectively?<br><br>Again I can't answer this question in a general way. At first they do
<br>not change, you just rigidly strain the cell.<br><br> P.Blaha<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Peter BLAHA, Inst.f. Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, A-1060 Vienna
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