<div dir="ltr">With regard to QE users<div>what is the best way to calculate the dissociation energy of vacancies in metals using QE? Is it correct to calculate like this:</div><div>E(dis)=E(metals with 3 vacancies in a cluster)- E(
metals with 2 vacancies in a cluster)-E(one isolated vacancy)</div><div>or this is a correct formulation:</div><div> E(dis)=E(metals with 3 vacancies in a cluster)- E(
metals with 2 vacancies in a cluster and one vacancy in one unit cell farther than them).<br></div><div> I know that my question is not a QE problem but i appreciate if it will be answered.</div><div>S.M.Zamzamian</div><div>Sharif University of Technology</div><div>Tehran</div><div>Iran</div></div>