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Achintha Ihalage
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Difference between potential energy, free energy and Coulomb energy in solid state physics

18 votes
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756 views

What are the ways to ensure thermodynamic stability of a DFT modelled new structure?

15 votes
1 answer
805 views

Ab initio molecular dynamics to check material stability at finite temperature

15 votes
3 answers
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What ab initio methods are better suited to modelling disorder in materials?

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4 answers
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How to analyze the space group of a relaxed structure that has fractional site occupancies

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2 answers
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High throughput tool to quantify the similarity of crystal structures?

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1 answer
341 views

How does the atomic arrangement look like in a compound that has partial/mixed site occupancies

11 votes
1 answer
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How would you report the lattice parameters of an alloy, modelled using a supercell

9 votes
2 answers
286 views

Is there a possibility to change the initial crystal system during full geometric relaxation?

7 votes
2 answers
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Why is there a large discrepancy between calculated frequency dependent dielectric function and experimental measurement?

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