<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hello Dears,<br><br></div><div>I have some confusions about how quantum espresso manage the cells vectors. Recently I used cif2qe to get positions of atoms from cif file. In the output I read that:<br></div><br>! Found by cif2qe: lattice = cubic Space group = Fd-3m ibrav = 2<br><br>My structure is fcc the above is correct. But in cell paramaters that cif2qe gave me:<br><br>CELL_PARAMETERS bohr <br> 15.571154294 0.000000000 0.000000000 <br> 0.000000000 15.571154294 0.000000000 <br> 0.000000000 0.000000000 15.571154294<br><br></div>But in Doc/INPUT_PW the vectos for fcc are:<br><a name="14f24fdc3709669e_idp81536"></a><a name="14f24fdc3709669e_ibrav"><pre>2 cubic F (fcc)
v1 = (a/2)(-1,0,1), v2 = (a/2)(0,1,1), v3 = (a/2)(-1,1,0)</pre></a>I not sure if this two input method are the same. Are there the same?<br><br></div>In same way in Solid State Physics books (like Kittel) refer to primitive vectors fro fcc crystal, like this:<br><br></div>a_1 = (a/2)(x +y) ; a_1 = (a/2)(y + z) ; a_1 = (a/2)(z + x)<br><br></div>Are this vectores the same that in Quantum Espresso Doc are referred like crystal lattice vectors?<br><br>Any help will be grateful!<br></div>