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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 a question about symmetry and ibrav.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I have used BURAI to generate an input file for a vc-relax calculation.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">It got ibrav =1 (cubic), which I also expected. Everything went fine and the calculation got started and running.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">After a week or so, I decided to check the latest coordinates from the output file, and opened it in XCrySDen.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I don't know if you can check the symmetry in XCrySDen (please tell me how in that case), so I just used it in order to open the file and save it as a xsf-file. As BURAI can not read xsf-files, I used VESTA to open it
(checked the symmetry which was Triclinic (ibrav=14) !) and saved it as a cif-file which could be opened in BURAI, and it was identified as
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Orthorhombic P(</span> ibrav =8). </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Questions:</p>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">1) When doing an vc-relax calculation in espresso, I expected that once the symmetry was given (ibrav=1) espresso should keep the symmetry during all the calculation. It seems to me that it is not the case. Is that
correct? I use version 5.2.</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">2) If so, is there a way to do what I want? Keep the symmetry, and get a final structure that i still in the cubic form? </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Kind regards,</div>
<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Carina</div>
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