Dear  Julien,

Maybe it's because your cell vectors 1 and 2 are pointing
slightly in the z direction? I don't know but I think this
could be a problem. If it is just a rotation of the whole
cell you could try rotating it back... Otherwise search the
code for the message and look when it is triggered.

Regards

Thomas

Zitat von Julien Barbaud <[email protected]>:

Dear users,



I am running into a new problem while trying to perform a calculation on a
2D slab consisting of 4 unit cells in the z-direction with an additional
molecule on top of an under-coordinated surface atom.

When I try to run the code (in serial mode just for checking), I get this
message:

2D CODE WILL NOT WORK, 2D MATERIAL NOT IN X-Y PLANE!!

2D CODE WILL NOT WORK, 2D MATERIAL NOT IN X-Y PLANE!!

(repeated twice as shown here)



I tried to search, but could not find any documentation on this error.



I thought that this might be due to a vacuum slab too small, but the
dimension should be ok according to previous calculations on similar
systems, and increasing the c lattice to very large values constant does not
solve the problem.

I made sure that the slab+molecule were centered around 0 in the z-direction
as I have been told on this list that this was important for the 2D code not
to cutoff some real coulombian interactions. This did not solve the problem.
I also tried to wrap all atoms in the cell, but this did not change anything
(plus it necessarily meant that the system was not centered around 0
anymore).



I do not understand this error message. What does "not in x-y plane" mean
for this 2D code? What confuses me is that I have been doing several very
similar calculations, and I never had this problem before. Any suggestion ?



I will join my input file



Thanks for reading,

Julien

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Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Brumme
Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Leipzig University
Phillipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 31
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email: [email protected]

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