<div dir="auto">*must have*....<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a><br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" Albert Szent-Györgyi</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 11:06 PM Laurence Marks <<a href="mailto:laurence.marks@gmail.com">laurence.marks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Basically....no!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you have constructed the AFM correctly the structure will have the symmetry of the Coulomb field, not the magnetism. You met have made a mistake.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a><br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" Albert Szent-Györgyi</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 10:50 PM delamora <<a href="mailto:delamora@unam.mx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">delamora@unam.mx</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am trying to optimize a spinel structure.</div>
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The normal spinel AB2X4 is FCC with SG 227</div>
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A: 1/8,1/8,1/8</div>
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B: 1/2,1/2,1/2</div>
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X: x,x,x x~1/4<br>
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so it has 2 free parameters; 'volume' and 'x,x,x'</div>
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but in my cases B is magnetic and it has antiferromagnetic coupling, B also forms the 3D Kagome structure so it is geometrically frustrated.</div>
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The volume optimization can be easily done with option 'optimize'</div>
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but for the 'x' parameter there is a problem;</div>
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To treat the magnetism the best option, in my opinion, is to put half of the B atoms 'up' and the other half 'dn', there are 4 in the primitive cell, so 2 are 'up' and 2 'dn'.</div>
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With this, then the FCC cell becomes BCC (SG 74 Imma) and the 8 'X' atoms that were in one wyckoff position are now in two wyckoff positions with 4 atoms in each.</div>
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So, if the forces are minimized, 'runsp -min', will move these two 'X' groups in directions that will break the original cubic symmetry.</div>
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One posibility is to make 4 'struct' files, in the original SG 227, with slightly different 'x' positions, for example, the initial x,x,x is;<br>
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x= 0.254, so I make 4 struct files with; 0.251, 0.253, 0.255, 0.257</div>
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after this one should make them antiferromagnetic (SG 74 Imma) then run them separatelly, then one can obtain the optimum 'x' parameter.</div>
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I tried to use a modified 'optimize.job' but it did not work.</div>
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I also tried to run these 4 'struct' files in the same directory but I found that when I put the next case.struct into the directory, I had to initiate the system in order to be able to run them.</div>
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In other words, if I run the system with 1-struct, then for the next 2-struct I cannot just change 1-struct for 2-struct and run.
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For the case of changes of volume then the optimize.job works fine, but for small changes in 'x' it does not work.<br>
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I anybody has an idea that would make this case simpler I would apreciate.</div>
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Thank you anyway</div>
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Pablo<br>
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