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dipole (and quadrupole) orientation

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 6:34 pm
by davide.tiana
Dear all,
I cannot figure out how a dipole is orientated using bader program. I mean how the program fix the xyz axis?

Cheers,
Davide

Re: dipole (and quadrupole) orientation

Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2013 7:15 am
by graeme
We use the orientation of the cell and atoms as specified in the CHGCAR file (assuming a vasp calculation).

That said, we don't typically do dipole calculations. I know there is some code for this, but it is not supported.