[Ifeffit] Carlo's problem with wurtzite
John J. Rehr
jjr at leonardo.phys.washington.edu
Thu Nov 6 17:14:06 CST 2003
Hi everyone,
We encountered a similar problem with the default atoms
precision of 5 digits for the Ti-omega phase structure. For that
structure atoms gave different results for the Wyckoff coordinates:
1/3 2/3 1/2
and
..3333 .6666 .5
This (apparently) confused the degeneracy checker in atoms causing atoms
to print out pairs atoms at nearly identical points.
Although there may be cases where a difference between say 0.67 and 2/3
is a significant distortion, I think it's very rare that crystallographic
parameters are known to better to 4 digits. Thus I'm wondering
whether reducing the precision that atoms demands of a user might
be advantageous.
J. Rehr
More information about the Ifeffit
mailing list