[SIESTA-L] Slab relaxation

2007-10-02 Thread John Appleton
Dear users, I wish to ask a question about surface interlayer relaxation. I would like to know if the interlayer relaxation is dependent or independent of the surface unit cell geometry. As an example, If I relax fcc (111) slabs having (1x1), (sqrt(3)xsqrt(3))R30, and (2x2) surface unit cells,

Re: [SIESTA-L] Slab relaxation

2007-10-04 Thread Simon Dubois
Hello, I don't have a lot of experience in this area, however I suppose that the size of the unit cell slightly acts upon the relaxed interlayer distance. Indeed, when fixing the cell size, you restrict the relaxation processes to ones commensurable with the cell size. The relaxed geometry may the