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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dear All,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I have seen many times in different papers that people use a conventional unit cell instead of the primitive unit cell when they do calculations.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">This means that they commonly use a structure with many more atoms than required for a primitive unit cell.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I realize that there may be a symmetry difference between the conventional unit cell compared to the primitive.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As people do in this way, which require much more computational efforts that should be of importance.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I wonder if someone might explain to me why I should not use a primitive unit cell.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri">Will using a primitive unit cell give the wrong result? Will the calculated structure be wrong?
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Calibri">I would be very grateful, if you could help me understanding the thinking about the computational technique regarding this.</font></span></p>
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Kind regards,
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Carina</p>
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