<div dir="auto">It does not matter, it is only need to be roughly centered <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Lorenzo Paulatto<br>Written on a virtual keyboard with real fingers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 Jul 2017 9:36 p.m., "Dr. Robert Molt Jr." <<a href="mailto:r.molt.chemical.physics@gmail.com">r.molt.chemical.physics@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Good evening,</p>
<p>I am confused by the "centering" requirements of ESM. It is
stated that:</p>
<pre style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:-webkit-left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-top:0em">Requires cell with a_3 lattice vector along z,
normal to the xy plane, with the slab centered
around z=0. Also requires symmetry checking to be
disabled along z, either by setting <a href="http://www.quantum-espresso.org/wp-content/uploads/Doc/INPUT_PW.html#nosym" target="_blank">nosym</a> = .TRUE.
or by very slight displacement (i.e., 5e-4 a.u.)
of the slab along z.
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<p>I have constructed a slab which is symmetric about the xy plane
and centered around z=0 contour. This is fine and good.</p>
<p>However, once I add the adsorbate molecule, I cannot have
symmetry...unless it is intended that I add the same adsorbate
molecule on the "bottom" of the simulation, too? I am unclear what
is meant by the slab being "centered." Center of mass? Center of
symmetry?<br>
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