Interstitial get started and input examples

Interstitial get started and input examples#

Interstitial calculates the energy difference when adding an atom into the crystal structure. We need to give the information of supercell (default value is [1, 1, 1]) and insert_ele list for the element types of the atoms added in.

An example of the input file for Interstitial by deepmd:#

{
	"structures":	"confs/mp-*",
	"interaction": {
		"type":		"deepmd",
                "model":        "frozen_model.pb",
		"type_map":	{"Al": 0, "Mg": 1}
	},
	"properties": [
            {
                "type":        "interstitial",
                "supercell":   [3, 3, 3],
                "insert_ele":  ["Al"],
                "conf_filters":{"min_dist": 1.5},
                "cal_setting": {"input_prop": "lammps_input/lammps_high"}
            }
        ]
}

We add a conf_filters parameter in properties part and this parameter can help to eliminate undesirable structure which can render rather difficult convergence in calculations. In the example above, “min_dist”: 1.5 means if the smallest atomic distance in the structure is less than 1.5 angstrom, the configuration would be eliminated and not used in calculations.