<P>Dear Prof. Baroni & Giannozzi</P>
<P>thanks, your replies help a lot.</P>
<P>Bests</P>
<P>DAI<BR><BR><BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">-----Original E-mail-----<BR><B>From:</B> "Stefano Baroni" <baroni@sissa.it><BR><B>Sent Time:</B> 2009-10-19 15:00:33<BR><B>To:</B> "PWSCF Forum" <pw_forum@pwscf.org><BR><B>Cc:</B> <BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Pw_forum] How to generate a pp which is 3/4 of itself using virtual.x<BR><BR>may I add the recommendation that one should try to understand methods and approximations (if, when, and how they work) _BEFORE_ using them? cheers - SB
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<DIV>On Oct 19, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Paolo Giannozzi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<DIV><BR>On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:57 , Jun Dai wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Is it possible or reasonable?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>it is possible, but hardly reasonable. Virtual crystal<BR>approximation works for cases like A(x) B(1-x)<BR>substitutional alloys, when A and B are not too<BR>different. In your case A=Oxygen and B=nothing.<BR><BR>Paolo<BR>---<BR>Paolo Giannozzi, Dept of Physics, University of Udine<BR>via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<BR>Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Pw_forum mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Pw_forum@pwscf.org">Pw_forum@pwscf.org</A><BR>http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span">Why? See:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0023e9" size="3"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="Apple-style-span"><A href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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