Hi all. My question is not siesta-specific, however its a good forum to
discuss it. After designing a structure in a specific software (say
materials studio) we can save it in various formats such as Pdb, .vasp or
.xyz, however all these formats show different number of atoms for the same
structure. For example, when we save a ZnS unit cell (zinc blend) structure
in pdb it gives us co-ordinates of two atoms i.e Zn and S, in case of xyz I
have 18 atoms (4 S and 14 Zn) and in case of .vasp I get 8 atoms (4 S and 4
Z). My question is: are these formats equally valid and will lead to same
results??? What is the difference between them, if any.

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