Dear QE users,

I'm performing calculations on organic molecular crystal structures using pw.x. 
For organic molecular structures, it is quite common that a part of a molecule 
is positioned across a boundary of two neighboring cells (meaning not all atoms 
are positioned inside the basic cell). When I use pw.x (doing SCF 
calculations), the atoms that do not lie inside the basic cell are 
automatically re-positioned so that they do lie inside the basic cell (I came 
to this conclusion by analyzing the pw.x output file). As a result, the 
molecules of the structure get cut into pieces. I wasn't sure if this had to do 
with the symmetry specification - I tried to specify symmetry using either the 
"space_group" keyword or using "ibrav = 0", but I ended with the same result 
for either approach.

This is a little bit troublesome for me, because I later use the SCF results to 
plot the charge density using pp.x and I would very much like if the molecules 
were preserved. If I understand correctly, I could potentially fix this by 
editing the pp.x output manually, however, is there another way to bypass this 
problem? The version I'm using is "PWSCF v.6.4.1".

Thank you for any recommendations.

Sincerely,

F.Fňukal

UCT Prague
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