charge in PDF calculations

[Annet B]

Dear all,

I am trying to calculate the PDF from a xyz file (obtained from a molecular dynamics simulation). In my xyz file, the charge of each element is defined as well, but this is not accepted when applying 'loadStructure'. Is it actually possible to include charge in the diffpy PDF calculations?

Best wishes

Annet

[Simon Billinge]

Dear Annet,

I think that some ions are represented in the database but not all.  The program should raise an error if it can't find an ion.  The difference in scattering between the ions and the uncharged atoms tends to be quite small and in most cases you can get a very satisfactory fit using the atom instead of the ion.  In that case you would have to write a script to strip the +/- off the name of the atom/ion in your input file.  You may also add user-supplied atoms/ions.  I don't quite recall how to do that, but you may find it if you dig in the documentation.  Does anyone else remember?

S

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[Mikkel Juelsholt]

The easy way is to replace the atom with an atom with more electrons. E.g. to describe O2- you can replace it with Ne. 

Pavol discusses  user-supplied atoms/ions  in these threads: 

https://groups.google.com/g/diffpy-users/c/mSsglnJSpps/m/kQWPwegHAwAJ 

https://groups.google.com/g/diffpy-users/c/7nu23l7OY8A/m/bTDu_a0nCAAJ

Cheers Mikkel

[Simon Billinge]

Thanks so much Mikkel.....

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