[Ifeffit] mxan and gnxas

[Matthew Marcus]

Thanks.  Do you mean that it's available as source-code only?  Is there any 
tutorial material available?  If it does background subtraction, does that 
mean
you feed it raw signal-vs-energy files?
    mam
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francesco Giannici" <zenarcade at libero.it>
To: "ifeffit" <ifeffit at millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: [Ifeffit] mxan and gnxas


> 1. how to get mxan: as far as i know, mxan is available free of charge, 
> although not ready for download. you should directly contact maurizio dot 
> benfatto @ lnf dot infn dot it. caveat: the documentation is *very* short, 
> and there is no interface, so here's another reason to keep in touch with 
> the developer.
> mxan means "minuit xanes", so it uses the minuit minimization procedures 
> to fit either structural (i.e. atomic positions) or physical (i.e. 
> broadening, plasmon, etc.) parameters. it seems the best choice if you 
> deal with a few atoms (biomolecules, coordination compounds, and such).
>
> 2. my two cents on gnxas: this package is either very powerful, and very 
> scary. you have to be always aware of what you're doing, because it's no 
> black box. but once you manage to learn the basics, you are awarded with 
> wonderful quality and stability of the fit (minuit is used to avoid false 
> minima during minimization), and total control of the background 
> subtraction (spline and multi-electron excitation refined simultaneously 
> during the fit). other useful features are asymmetric distributions, and 
> the automatic inclusion of all ms paths in the n-body signal generation. 
> the cons: there's no fourier filtering (the fit is done on chi(E)), there 
> are a few bugs in the potential calculation that prevent a smooth 
> generation of signals above 7 angstrom, and you have to spend a lot of 
> time learning the various modules of the package.
>
> hope this can help,
> -- 
> francesco giannici
> dept. of inorganic and analytical chemistry
> università di palermo
> giannici at pa.ismn.cnr.it
>
>
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