<br clear="all"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:29 PM, vicky singh wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi<br>
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I am studying the effect of alloying on a supercell with 40 atoms. I am<br>
replacing one Ni with different alloying elements. To get the charge density<br>
should i relax the system and the perform the scf or simple scf will give<br>
the effect of alloying.<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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vicky singh<br>
research student<br>
Bangalore<br></blockquote></div><br> Dear Vicky<br><br>Atoms with different sizes have different strain effects in your system and certainly their electronic states aren't same. So if I were you I do a relax calculation. Also, if you want to decrease the cost of your calculations, sometimes it may be good to fix the positions of some side atoms. I hope it helps. <br>
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