<div dir="ltr">Dear Paolo,<div>I did exactly the same thing, but I expect to see all the angles to be 90, while Xcrysden does not exhibit this.</div><div>How come V1 and V2 are not orthogonal?</div><div>And do I have to express the fractional atomic position in terms of A,B,C or V1, V2 and V3?</div>
<div>Amin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Paolo Giannozzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giannozz@democritos.it">giannozz@democritos.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:12 , Amin Torabi wrote:<br>
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> I have some problem in introducing a base-centered orthorhombic<br>
> structure (ibrav=9) to QE.<br>
><br>
> I have entered the cell parameters in A, B, C, cosAB, cosBC, cosAC<br>
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</div>you need only A, B, C (in Angstrom); cosAB, cosBC, cosAB are ignored.<br>
Or: celldm(1)=a (in Bohr), celldm(2)=b/a, celldm(3)=c/a (celldm(4:6)<br>
ignored).<br>
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This is what you will get for the three unit translations v1, v2, v3<br>
9 Orthorhombic base-centered(bco) celldm(2)<br>
=b/a<br>
celldm(3)<br>
=c/a<br>
v1 = (a/2, b/2,0), v2 = (-a/2,b/2,0), v3 =<br>
(0,0,c)<br>
<br>
In the development version of QE, also ibrav=-9 is present:<br>
-9 as 9, alternate description<br>
v1 = (a/2,-b/2,0), v2 = (a/2,-b/2,0), v3 =<br>
(0,0,c)<br>
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