Hi Siebe,

Sorry for the trouble.   I agree with Robert's suggestion to check whether "Wat" might be causing the problem. 

The CIF Browser and Feff runner in XAS Viewer does actually support fractional occupancies, by randomly assigning atoms to match the partial occupancy (but of course, not with great precision -- each X, Y, Z position has exactly one actual atom of a determinant Z).  That allows a lot CIF files to "just work" that would otherwise need manual intervention.  At the moment (and possibly for the foreseeable future),  the CIF Browser does not support editing the CIF directly, but does support editing the result Feff.inp file, but one can export a CIF, edit that elsewhere, and then import it.

What I see trying to run a calculation from that CIF file is that there are many oxygen atoms that are too close together.  Like Robert suggested, I suspected these come from the "Wat", but when I removed those and the H atoms, the prolem still happened.  As Robert listed the atomic positions for this structure, I think it might actually be the "C", "O2", as well as the "Wat" with the low occupancy of "0.0833" that might be the problem.   

If I remove CO groups and Waters, these to generate the attached CIF (I changed the ID number) that seems to run, though I don't know if it is then the structure you actually are trying to model ;). 

--Matt


On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 6:51 AM van der Veer, Siebe <s.van.der.veer@rug.nl> wrote:
Dear all,

I'm trying to run feff on the Hydrotalcite cif file as can be found in the Larch Am Min CIF browser and I get the following error:

At line 125 of file ff2chi.f (unit = 1, file = 'list.dat')
Fortran runtime error: Bad real number in item 2 of list input

I've been able to gather that this means there is some unreadable input in the file that is been used, but I don't know what file this is so I don't know what the actual bad input is and what has caused it.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,


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Siebe van der Veer | PhD student
Nanostructures of Functional Oxides | Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
University of Groningen | Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen | The Netherlands
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