On Tuesday 16 March 2004 08:32 am, Schmithals wrote:

I have attached an atoms.inp file that causes problems when used with Artemis. Both, Atoms run from within Athena as well as TkAtoms generate a feff.inp file with a wrong POTENTIALS-Card. Subsequently, FEFF will refuse to run, saying that potential number 1 is not used. I tried the same procedure with an older atoms.exe and had no problems.

Hmmm.... I really should fix this problem. I am surprised at how infrequently people complain about this problem. I suppose that is why I haven't got around to doing so yet. The problem is that Atoms does not check to make sure that every item in the potentials list is actually in the atoms list. (I think the old fortran version did make that check, but it somehow never got in the new version.) If you make Rmax in Atoms bigger, the problem will go away because the cluster will then be big enough to include all the atoms in the potentials list. If you do not want to compute feff on such a large cluster, just set Rmax in feff.inp to something appropriate. The error message in feff is trigered when a potential does not appear in the atoms list. However, it is not required that each item in the potentials list appear within rmax of the central atom. As a rule of thumb, I would recommend setting Rmax to something large-ish in Atoms and use feff's rmax to actually restrict the number of feffNNNN.dat files that you compute.

Another bug: TkAtoms allows only to open the space group browser only once. Every further click on "Browse space groups" will have no effect.

No kidding? I'll look into it when I get home from NSLS. Thanks as always for the great bug reports, Gerrit. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/