ATAT and Atomsk should be downloaded from their respective websites given in the Dislcaimer section.
Other interesting repositories can be found on my personal website: sufyanshk.github.io
I suggest to install ATAT
in the /bin/
directory so that all the users can use it. If you don't edit the makefile
of ATAT then only the user who installed it, can use it.
Execute these commands sequentially (so that all the users will be able to use ATAT
):
bash
cd atat
sed -i '' '1s/\$(HOME)//' makefile #if OSX
sed -i '1s/\$(HOME)//' makefile #if linux
make
make install
#will create bcc W unit cell and will orient it along xyz, abc, pqr directions
atomsk --create bcc 4 W orient [x y z] [a b c] [p q r] pos
#will duplicate the unit cell along its axes
atomsk POSCAR -duplicate 2 2 2 # repeat the unit cell twice in x, y and z directions
For generating supercell of specific dimensions, mcsqs
requires rndstr.in
file of the required supercell. The file make_rndstr.in
edits the POSCAR file generated from atomsk
code and creates the rndstr.in
file.
Check the rndstr.in
file before starting the calculations because sometimes the code can delete some of the lattice parameter values present in the first 3 lines of the generated rndstr.in
file.
This rndstr.in
can then be given as input to mcsqs
to generate the SQS of required dimensions.
(Note: All the atomic sites in rndstr.in
file should be given the relative concentration of the chemical species, according to the alloy chemistry. This should be done manually
using sed
or awk
to avoid any mistakes.)
I have added a file named check_sqs.sh
which checks whether the Perfect_match
for the correlation is found or not. If the Perfect_match
is found in the bestcorr.out
file, then the code creates a file named stopsqs
. If the mcsqs
code is running and when it sees the file stopsqs
, then it cleanly stops its run.
Included also is the sqscell.out
file, which ensures that only one supercell is created according the rndstr.in
file.
mcsqs -2=... -3=... #depending upon your requirements it can be pairs, triplets, etc.
mcsqs -rc
In the check_sqs.sh
file you can define for how many seconds the mcsqs
code should keep finding out the sqs'es. (I have put the default as 172800 seconds which is equal to 2 days)
The ATAT
code can be downloaded from ATAT's official website.
The Atomsk
code can be downloaded from Atomsk's official website.
ATAT and Atomsk are the property of their respective creators.
No copyright infringement intended.