<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Giuseppe.<br><br></div>Nandan.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:49 AM, Giuseppe Mattioli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giuseppe.mattioli@ism.cnr.it" target="_blank">giuseppe.mattioli@ism.cnr.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> Or just shifting the atoms slightly before starting the relaxation?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes! If the code finds a starting symmetry, it does not break it.<br>
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HTH<br>
Giuseppe<br>
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Quoting Nandan Tandon <<a href="mailto:nandan.tandon@gmail.com">nandan.tandon@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I am trying to relax a vacancy in a cubic 512 atom unit cell of diamond. It<br>
> has<br>
> been seen that the T_d symmetry around the vacancy is lowered to D_{2d}.<br>
> But my system does not show this because all the atoms (first 4 neighbors)<br>
> around the vacancy are at identical distances from the vacancy and each<br>
> other.<br>
><br>
> Initially, using a FCC supercell also gave the same relaxed structure. This<br>
> prompted me to start with a cubic structure.<br>
><br>
><br>
> My question is, is there a trick to do such vacancy calculations?<br>
><br>
> Like starting by substituting a carbon atom with another atom to distort<br>
> the lattice<br>
> before creating a vacancy at the site?<br>
><br>
> Or just shifting the atoms slightly before starting the relaxation?<br>
><br>
> I have done few tests to ensure that the Ecut is high (80Ryd), its a Gamma<br>
> point calculation, LDA potentials and an optimized lattice constant.<br>
><br>
> Thanks and regards,<br>
><br>
> Nandan.<br>
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