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Coordination Numbers

September 3, 2009 Posted by Emre S. Tasci

Recently, we are working on liquid alloys and for our work, we need the coordination number distribution. It’s kind of a gray area when you talk about coordination number of atoms in a liquid but it’s better than nothing to understand the properties and even more. I’d like to write a log on the tools I’ve recently coded/used in order to refer to in the future if a similar situation occurs. Also, maybe there are some others conducting similar research so, the tools introduced here may be helpful to them.

Recently, while searching recent publications on liquid alloys, I’ve found a very good and resourceful article on liquid Na-K alloys by Dr. J.-F. Wax (“Molecular dynamics study of the static structure of liquid Na-K alloys”, Physica B 403 (2008) 4241-48 | doi:10.1016/j.physb.2008.09.014). In this paper, among other properties, he had also presented the partial pair distribution functions. Partial-pair distribution functions is the averaged probability that you’ll encounter an atom in r distance starting from another atom. In solid phase, due to the symmetry of the crystal structure, you have discrete values instead of a continuous distribution and everything is crystal clear but I guess that’s the price we pay dealing with liquids. 8)

Partial-pair distribution functions are very useful in the sense that they let you derive the bond-length between constituent atom species, corresponding to the first minimums of the plots. Hence, one can see the neighborhood ranges by just looking at the plots.

I’ve sent a mail to Dr. Wax explaining my research topics and my interest and asking for his research data to which he very kindly and generously replied by providing his data.

He had sent me a big file with numerous configurations (coordinates of the atoms) following each other. The first -and the simplest- task was to split the file into seperate configuration files via this bash script:

#!/bin/bash
# Script Name: split_POS4.sh
# Splits the NaK conf files compilation POS4_DAT into sepearate
# conf files.
# Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>
#                                              01/09/09

linestart=2
p="p"
for (( i = 1; i <= 1000; i++ ))
do
    echo $i;
    lineend=$(expr $linestart + 2047)
    confname=$(printf "%04d" $i)
    echo -e "3\n2048" > $confname
    sed -n "$linestart,$(echo $lineend$p)" POS4_DAT >> $confname
    linestart=$(expr $lineend + 1)
    cat $confname | qhull i TO $confname.hull
done

(The compilation was of 1000 configurations, each with 2048 atoms)

As you can check in the line before the “done” closer, I’ve -proudly- used Qhull software to calculate the convex hull of each configuration. A convex hull is the -hopefully minimum- shape that covers all your system. So, for each configuration I now had 2 files: “xxxx” (where xxxx is the id/number of the configuration set) storing the coordinates (preceded by 3 and 2048, corresponding to dimension and number of atoms information for the qhull to parse & process) and “xxxx.hull” file, generated by the qhull, containing the vertices list of each facet (preceded by the total number of facets).

A facet is (in 3D) the plane formed by the vertice points. Imagine a cube, where an atom lies at each corner, 3 in the inside. So, we can say that our system consists of 11 atoms and the minimal shape that has edges selected from system’s atoms and covering the whole is a cube, with the edges being the 8 atoms at the corners. Now, add an atom floating over the face at the top. Now the convex hull that wraps our new system would no longer be a 6-faced, 8-edged cube but a 9-faced, 9-edged polygon. I need to know the convex hull geometry in order to correctly calculate the coordination number distributions (details will follow shortly).

The aforementioned two files look like:

sururi@husniya hull_calcs $ head 0001
3
2048
 0.95278770E+00 0.13334565E+02 0.13376155E+02
 0.13025256E+02 0.87618381E+00 0.20168993E+01
 0.12745038E+01 0.14068998E-01 0.22887323E+01
 0.13066590E+02 0.20788591E+01 0.58119183E+01
 0.10468218E+00 0.58523640E-01 0.64288678E+01
 0.12839412E+02 0.13117012E+02 0.79093881E+01
 0.11918105E+01 0.12163854E+02 0.10270868E+02
 0.12673985E+02 0.11642538E+02 0.10514597E+02
sururi@husniya hull_calcs $ head 0001.hull
180
568 1127 1776
1992 104 1551
956 449 1026
632 391 1026
391 632 1543
391 956 1026
966 632 1026
966 15 1039
632 966 1039

The sets of 3 numbers in the xxxx.hull file is the ids/numbers of the atoms forming the edges of the facets, i.e., they are the vertices.

To calculate the coordination number distribution, you need to pick each atom and then simply count the other atoms within the cut-off distance depending on your atom’s and the neighboring atom’s species. After you do the counting for every atom, you average the results and voilà! there is your CN distribution. But here’s the catch: In order to be able to count properly, you must make sure that, your reference atom’s cutoff radii stay within your system — otherwise you’ll be undercounting. Suppose your reference atom is one of the atoms at the corners of the cube: It will (generally/approximately) lack 7/8 of the neighbouring atoms it would normally have if it was to be the center atom of the specimen/sample. Remember that we are studying a continuous liquid and trying to model the system via ensembles of samples. So we should omit these atoms which has neighborhoods outside of our systems. Since neighborhoods are defined through bond-length, we should only include the atoms with a distance to the outside of at least cut-off radii. The “outside” is defined as the region outside the convex hull and it’s designated by the facets (planes).

From the xxxx.hull file, we have the ids of the vertice atoms and their coordinates are stored in the xxxx file. To define the plane equation

we will use the three vertice points, say p1, p2 and p3. From these 3 points, we calculate the normal n as:

then, the plane equation (hence the coefficients a,b,c,d) can be derived by comparing the following equation:

Here, (x0,y0,z0) are just the coordinates of any of the vertice points. And finally, the distance D between a point p1(x1,y1,z1) and a plane (a,b,c,d) is given by:

Since vector operations are involved, I thought it’s better to do this job in Octave and wrote the following script that calculates the coefficients of the facets and then sets down to find out the points whose distances to all the facets are greater than the given cut-off radius:

sururi@husniya trunk $ cat octave_find_atoms_within.m
DummyA = 3;
%conf_index=292;

% Call from the command line like :
%   octave -q --eval "Rcut=1.65;conf_index=293;path='$(pwd)';" octave_find_atoms_within.m
% hence specifying the conf_index at the command line.

% Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
%
% From the positions and vertices file, calculates the plane
% equations (stored in "facet_coefficients") and then
% filters the atoms with respect to their distances to these
% facets. Writes the output to
% "hull_calcs/xxxx_insiders.txt" file
%                                              03/09/09 */

conf_index_name = num2str(sprintf("%04d",conf_index));;
%clock
clear facet_coefficients;
facet_coefficients = [];
global p v facet_coefficients
fp = fopen(strcat(path,"/hull_calcs/",conf_index_name));
k = fscanf(fp,"%d",2); % 1st is dim (=3), 2nd is number of atoms (=2048)
p = fscanf(fp,"%f",[k(1),k(2)]);
p = p';
fclose(fp);
%p = load("/tmp/del/delco");
fp = fopen(strcat(path,"/hull_calcs/",conf_index_name,".hull"));
k = fscanf(fp,"%d",1);% number of facets
v = fscanf(fp,"%d",[3,k]);
v = v';
fclose(fp);
%v = load("/tmp/del/delver");

function [a,b,c,d,e] = getPlaneCoefficients(facet_index)
    global p v
    % Get the 3 vertices
    p1 = p(v(facet_index,1)+1,:); % The +1s come from the fact 
    p2 = p(v(facet_index,2)+1,:); % that qhull enumeration begins
    p3 = p(v(facet_index,3)+1,:); % from 0 while Octave's from 1

    %printf("%d: %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f %f\n",facet_index,p1,p2,p3);

    % Calculate the normal
    n = cross((p2-p1),(p3-p1));

    % Calculate the coefficients of the plane :
    % ax + by + cz +d = 0
    a = n(1);
    b = n(2);
    c = n(3);
    d = -(dot(n,p1));
    e = norm(n);
    if(e==0)
        printf("%f\n",p1);
        printf("%f\n",p2);
        printf("%f\n",p3);
        printf("%d\n",facet_index);
    endif
endfunction

function dist = distanceToPlane(point_index,facet_index)
    global p facet_coefficients
    k = facet_coefficients(facet_index,:);
    n = [k(1) k(2) k(3)];
    dist = abs(dot(n,p(point_index,:)) + k(4)) / k(5);
endfunction

for i = [1:size(v)(1)]
    [a,b,c,d,e] = getPlaneCoefficients(i);
    facet_coefficients = [ facet_coefficients ; [a,b,c,d,e]];
endfor

%Rcut = 1.65; % Defined from command line calling
% Find the points that are not closer than Rcut
inside_atoms = [];
for point = [1:size(p)(1)]
%for point = [1:100]
    inside=true;
    for facet = [1:size(v)(1)]
    %for facet = [1:10]
        %printf("%d - %d : %f\n",point,facet,dist);
        if (distanceToPlane(point,facet)<Rcut)
            inside = false;
            break;
        endif
    endfor
    if(inside)
        inside_atoms = [inside_atoms point-1];
    endif
endfor

fp = fopen(strcat(path,"/hull_calcs/",conf_index_name,"_insiders.txt"),"w");
fprintf(fp,"%d\n",inside_atoms);
fclose(fp);
%clock

This script is runned within the following php code which then takes the filtered atoms and does the counting using them:
<?PHP
/* Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
 *
 * parse_configuration_data.php
 *
 * Written in order to parse the configuation files
 * obtained from J.F. Wax in order to calculate the 
 * Coordination Number distribution. Each configuration 
 * file contain 2048 atoms' coordinates starting at the 
 * 3rd line. There is also a convex hull file generated 
 * using qhull (http://www.qhull.com) that contains the 
 * indexes (starting from 0) of the atoms that form the 
 * vertices of the convex hull. Finally there is the 
 * IP.dat file that identifies each atom (-1 for K; 1 for 
 * Na -- the second column is the relative masses).
 *
 *                                              02/09/09 */

/*
# if present, remove the previous run's results file
if(file_exists("results.txt"))
    unlink("results.txt");
 */

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

if(!file_exists("results.txt"))
{
    $fp = fopen("results.txt","w");
    fwrite($fp,"CONF#"."\tNa".implode("\tNa",range(1,20))."\tK".implode("\tK",range(1,20))."\n");
    fclose($fp);
}

# Support for command line variable passing:
for($i=1;$i<sizeof($_SERVER["argv"]);$i++)
{
        list($var0,$val0) = explode("=",$_SERVER["argv"][$i]);
        $_GET[$var0] = $val0;
}

if($_GET["configuration"])
    calculate($_GET["configuration"]);
else
    exit("Please specify a configuration number [php parse_configuration_data.php configuration=xxx]\n");

function calculate($conf_index)
{
    # Define the atoms array
    $arr_atoms = Array();

    # Get the information from the files
    parse_types($arr_atoms);
    $refs = get_vertices($conf_index);
    parse_coordinates($arr_atoms,$conf_index);

    # Define the Rcut-off values (obtained from partial parid distribution minimums)
    $Rcut_arr = Array();
    $Rscale = 3.828; # To convert reduced distances to Angstrom (if needed)
    $Rscale = 1; # To convert reduced distances to Angstrom
    $Rcut_arr["Na"]["Na"] = 1.38 * $Rscale;
    $Rcut_arr["Na"]["K"]  = 1.65 * $Rscale;
    $Rcut_arr["K"]["Na"]  = 1.65 * $Rscale;
    $Rcut_arr["K"]["K"]   = 1.52 * $Rscale;
    $Rcut = $Rcut_arr["Na"]["K"]; # Taking the maximum one as the Rcut for safety

    /*
    # We have everything we need, so proceed to check 
    # if an atom is at safe distance wrt to the vertices

    # Define all the ids
    $arr_test_ids = range(0,2047);
    # Subtract the ref atoms' ids
    $arr_test_ids = array_diff($arr_test_ids, $refs);
    sort($arr_test_ids);
    //print_r($arr_test_ids);

    $arr_passed_atom_ids = Array();
    # Check each atom against refs
    for($id=0, $size=sizeof($arr_test_ids); $id<$size; $id++)
    {
        //echo $id."\n";
        $arr_atoms[$arr_test_ids[$id]]["in"] = TRUE;
        foreach ($refs as $ref)
        {
            $distance = distance($arr_atoms[$arr_test_ids[$id]],$arr_atoms[$ref]);
            //echo "\t".$ref."\t".$distance."\n";
            if($distance < $Rcut)
            {
                $arr_atoms[$arr_test_ids[$id]]["in"] = FALSE;
                break;
            }
        }
        if($arr_atoms[$arr_test_ids[$id]]["in"] == TRUE)
            $arr_passed_atom_ids[] = $arr_test_ids[$id];
    }
     */

    # Run the octave script file to calculate the inside atoms
    if(!file_exists("hull_calcs/".sprintf("%04d",$conf_index)."_insiders.txt"))
    exec("octave -q --eval \"Rcut=".$Rcut.";conf_index=".$conf_index.";path='$(pwd)';\" octave_find_atoms_within.m");

    # Read the file generated by Octave
    $arr_passed_atom_ids = file("hull_calcs/".sprintf("%04d",$conf_index)."_insiders.txt",FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);

    $arr_test_ids = range(0,2047);
    $arr_test_ids = array_diff($arr_test_ids, $refs);
    sort($arr_test_ids);
    for($i=0, $size=sizeof($arr_test_ids);$i<$size;$i++)
        $arr_atoms[$arr_test_ids[$i]]["in"]=FALSE;

    # Begin checking every passed atom
    foreach($arr_passed_atom_ids as $passed_atom_id)
    {
        $arr_atoms[$passed_atom_id]["in"] = TRUE;
        for($i=0, $size=sizeof($arr_atoms); $i<$size; $i++)
        {
            $distance = distance($arr_atoms[$passed_atom_id],$arr_atoms[$i]);
            //echo $passed_atom_id."\t---\t".$i."\n";
            if($distance < $Rcut_arr[$arr_atoms[$passed_atom_id]["id"]][$arr_atoms[$i]["id"]] && $distance>0.001)
                $arr_atoms[$passed_atom_id]["neighbour_count"] += 1;
        }
    }

    # Do the binning
    $CN_Na = Array();
    $CN_K  = Array();
    for($i=0, $size=sizeof($arr_atoms); $i<$size; $i++)
    {
        if(array_key_exists("neighbour_count",$arr_atoms[$i]))
        {
            ${"CN_".$arr_atoms[$i]['id']}[$arr_atoms[$i]["neighbour_count"]] += 1;
        }
    }

    ksort($CN_Na);
    ksort($CN_K);

    //print_r($arr_atoms);
    //print_r($CN_Na);
    //print_r($CN_K);

    # Report the results
    $filename = "results/".sprintf("%04d",$conf_index)."_results.txt";
    $fp = fopen($filename,"w");
    fwrite($fp, "### Atoms array ###\n");
    fwrite($fp,var_export($arr_atoms,TRUE)."\n");
    fwrite($fp, "\n### CN Distribution for Na ###\n");
    fwrite($fp,var_export($CN_Na,TRUE)."\n");
    fwrite($fp, "\n### CN Distribution for K ###\n");
    fwrite($fp,var_export($CN_K,TRUE)."\n");

    # Percentage calculation:
    $sum_Na = array_sum($CN_Na);
    $sum_K  = array_sum($CN_K);
    foreach($CN_Na as $key=>$value)
        $CN_Na[$key] = $value * 100 / $sum_Na;
    foreach($CN_K  as $key=>$value)
        $CN_K[$key]  = $value * 100 / $sum_K;
    //print_r($CN_Na);
    //print_r($CN_K);
    fwrite($fp, "\n### CN Distribution (Percentage) for Na ###\n");
    fwrite($fp,var_export($CN_Na,TRUE)."\n");
    fwrite($fp, "\n### CN Distribution (Percentage) for K ###\n");
    fwrite($fp,var_export($CN_K,TRUE)."\n");
    fclose($fp);

    # Write the summary to the results file
    $fp = fopen("results.txt","a");
    for($i=1;$i<=20;$i++)
    {
        if(!array_key_exists($i,$CN_Na))
            $CN_Na[$i] = 0;
        if(!array_key_exists($i,$CN_K))
            $CN_K[$i] = 0;
    }
    ksort($CN_Na);
    ksort($CN_K);
    fwrite($fp,sprintf("%04d",$conf_index)."\t".implode("\t",$CN_Na)."\t".implode("\t",$CN_K)."\n");
    fclose($fp);

}

function parse_types(&$arr_atoms)
{
    # Parse the types
    $i = 0;
    $fp = fopen("IP.DAT", "r");
    while(!feof($fp))
    {
        $line = fgets($fp,4096);
        $auxarr = explode(" ",$line);
        if($auxarr[0]==-1)
            $arr_atoms[$i]["id"] = "Na";
        else
            $arr_atoms[$i]["id"] = "K";
        $i++;
    }
    fclose($fp);
    array_pop($arr_atoms);
    return 0;
}

function get_vertices($conf_index)
{
    $arr_refs = Array();

    # Get the ids of the vertices of the convex hull
    $filename = "hull_calcs/".sprintf("%04d",$conf_index).".hull";
    $fp = fopen($filename, "r");

    # Bypass the first line
    $line = fgets($fp,4096);

    while(!feof($fp))
    {
        $line = fgets($fp,4096);
        $auxarr = explode(" ",$line);
        array_pop($auxarr);
        $arr_refs = array_merge($arr_refs, $auxarr);
    }
    fclose($fp);
    // $arr_refs = array_unique($arr_refs); # This doesn't lose the keys
    $arr_refs = array_keys(array_count_values($arr_refs)); # But this does.
    return $arr_refs;
}

function parse_coordinates(&$arr_atoms, $conf_index)
{
    # Parse the coordinates
    $i = 0;
    $filename = "hull_calcs/".sprintf("%04d",$conf_index);
    $fp = fopen($filename, "r");

    # Bypass the first two lines
    $line = fgets($fp,4096);
    $line = fgets($fp,4096);

    while(!feof($fp))
    {
        $line = fgets($fp,4096);
        $arr_atoms[$i]["coords"] = explode(" ",$line);
        array_shift($arr_atoms[$i]["coords"]);
        $i++;
    }
    fclose($fp);
    array_pop($arr_atoms);
    return 0;
}

function distance(&$atom1,&$atom2)
{
    # Calculate the distance between the two atoms
    $x1 = $atom1["coords"][0];
    $x2 = $atom2["coords"][0];
    $y1 = $atom1["coords"][1];
    $y2 = $atom2["coords"][1];
    $z1 = $atom1["coords"][2];
    $z2 = $atom2["coords"][2];
    return sqrt(pow($x1-$x2,2) + pow($y1-$y2,2) + pow($z1-$z2,2));
}

?>


The code above generates a “results/xxxx_results.txt” file containing all the information obtained in arrays format and also appends to “results.txt” file the relevant configuration file’s CN distribution summary. The systems can be visualized using the output generated by the following plotter.php script:
<?PHP
/* Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
 * Parses the results/xxxx_results.txt file and generates 
 * an XYZ file such that the atoms are labeled as the 
 * vertice atoms, close-vertice atoms and inside atoms..
 *                                              02/09/09 */

# Support for command line variable passing:
for($i=1;$i<sizeof($_SERVER["argv"]);$i++)
{
        list($var0,$val0) = explode("=",$_SERVER["argv"][$i]);
        $_GET[$var0] = $val0;
}

if($_GET["configuration"])
    $conf_index = $_GET["configuration"];
else 
    exit("Please specify a configuration number [php plotter.php configuration=xxx]\n");

$filename = sprintf("%04d",$conf_index);

# Get the atom array from the results file. Since results file 
# contains other arrays as well, we slice the file using sed for the 
# relevant part
$last_arr_line = exec('grep "### CN Distribution" results/'.$filename.'_results.txt -n -m1|sed "s:^\([0-9]\+\).*:\1:gi"');
exec('sed -n "2,'.($last_arr_line-1).'p" results/'.$filename.'_results.txt > system_tmp_array_dump_file');
$str=file_get_contents('system_tmp_array_dump_file');
$atom_arr=eval('return '.$str.';');
unlink('system_tmp_array_dump_file');

# Now that we have the coordinates, we itarate over the atoms to check 
# the characteristic and designate them in the XYZ file.
$fp = fopen("system_".$filename.".xyz","w");
fwrite($fp,sizeof($atom_arr)."\n");
fwrite($fp,"Generated by plotter.php\n");
for($i=0, $size=sizeof($atom_arr);$i<$size;$i++)
{
    if(!array_key_exists("in",$atom_arr[$i]))
        $atomlabel = "Mg";#Vertices
    elseif($atom_arr[$i]["in"]==TRUE)
        $atomlabel = $atom_arr[$i]["id"];#Inside atoms
    else
        $atomlabel = "O";#Close-vertice atoms
    fwrite($fp,$atomlabel."\t".implode("\t",$atom_arr[$i]["coords"]));
}
fclose($fp);
?>

which generates a “system_xxxx.xyz” file, ready to be viewed in a standard molecule viewing software. It designates the vertice atoms (of the convex hull, remember? 8)as “Mg” and the atoms close to them as “O” for easy-viewing purpose. A sample parsed file looks like this:

The filtered case of a sample Na-K system

The filtered case of a sample Na-K system

The big orange atoms are the omitted vertice atoms; the small red ones are the atoms critically close to the facets and hence also omitted ones. You can see the purple and yellow atoms which have passed the test sitting happilly inside, with the counting done using them.. 8)

POSCAR2Cif with symmetries discovered

June 4, 2009 Posted by Emre S. Tasci

In previous posts, I had submitted two codes:

  • POSCAR2Cif : that converts a given POSCAR file to CIF, so to speak, ruthlessly, i.e. just as is, without checking for symmetries or anything.
  • POSCAR2findsymm : another converter that takes a POSCAR file, and prepares an input file such that Harold Stokes’ findsym code from the ISOTROPY package would proceed it and deduce the symmetry information. If findsym executable is not accessible in your system (or if you run the script with the “t” flag set to on), it would just print the input to the screen and you could use it to fill the input form of the code’s web implementation, instead

Anyway, recently it occured to me to write another script that would parse the output of the POSCAR2findsymm output and use that output to construct a CIF file that contained the equivalent sites, etc.. So, ladies and gentlemen, here it is (drums roll)…

Example: Code in action
Using the same POSCAR_Pd3S file as in the POSCAR2Cif entry… Feeding it to POSCAR2findsymm and then applying findsymm2cif on it

sururi@husniya tmp $ python /code/POSCAR2findsym/POSCAR2findsym.py POSCAR_Pd3S | php /code/vaspie/findsymm2cif.php speclist=Pd,S
_cell_length_a  7.21915
_cell_length_b  5.56683
_cell_length_c  7.68685
_cell_angle_alpha       90.00000
_cell_angle_beta        90.00000
_cell_angle_gamma       90.00000
_symmetry_Int_Tables_number     40

loop_
_atom_site_label
_atom_site_type_symbol
_atom_site_fract_x
_atom_site_fract_y
_atom_site_fract_z
Pd01    Pd       0.75000         0.17834         0.31139
Pd02    Pd       0.75000         0.17845         0.69126
Pd03    Pd       0.50000         0.00000         0.00132
S01     S        0.75000         0.81592         0.50152

Code

#!/usr/bin/php
<?PHP

//require("/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php"); # Equivalent handling of $_GET / $_POST
# ============/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php========================================
// Enables the same treat for command line parameters
// as those of GET parameters.
// Also sets the $first, $last ranges including the gall parameter
 
//Support for command line variable passing:
for($i=1;$i<sizeof($_SERVER["argv"]);$i++)
{
  list($var0,$val0) = explode("=",$_SERVER["argv"][$i]);
  $_GET[$var0] = $val0;
}
 
# ============/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php========================================
if($_GET["h"]||$_GET["help"])
{
$help = <<<lol
 * Script name: findsymmetry2cif.php                                *
 * Converts the specified FINDSYM output to CIF format              *
 * More Information on FINDSYM : http://stokes.byu.edu/findsym.html *
 *                                                                  *
 * (If you have access) More information on script:                 *
 * http://dutsm2017.stm.tudelft.nl/mediawiki/index.php?title=Findsymm2cif
 *                                                                  *
 * Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                               *
 *                                                        23/05/09  *

 Usage:
 f         : input file  (Default = stdin)
 o         : output file (Default = stdout)
 identical : if set (identical=1), then the output will be the 
             transformation matrix and origin shift applied to the coordinates 
             so that the given coordinates will be regained.
 speclist  : Define the name of the species, seperated by 'xx' or ',' to be used
             with neighbour listing (Default = AxxBxxCxx...)
             (Labels can also be seperated via [space] as long as speclist is given
             in quotation -- Example: ... speclist=\"Au Si\" )

 Example : php findsymmetry2cif.php f=POSCAR_RhBi4 speclist=Bi,Rh identical=1
lol;
 echo $help."\n";
 exit;
}

$input = "php://stdin";
if($_GET["f"]) $input=$_GET["f"];

$outfile = "php://stdout";
if($_GET["o"]) $outfile=$_GET["o"];

$species_type_template = Array("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z");
if($_GET["speclist"])$species_type_template = split("xx| |,",$_GET["speclist"]);

//if(file_exists("findsymm2cif_php.tmp"))
//    unlink("findsymm2cif_php.tmp");
if($input == "php://stdin")
{
    $lol = file("php://stdin");
    $fp1 = fopen("findsymm2cif_php2.tmp","w");
    foreach($lol as $line)
        fwrite($fp1,$line);
    fclose($fp1);
    $input = "findsymm2cif_php2.tmp";
}
exec('lstart=`grep -n "Type of each atom:" '.$input.'|sed "s:^\([0-9]\+\).*:\1:gi"`;lstart=`expr $lstart + 1`;lfinish=`grep -n "Position of each atom (dimensionless coordinates)" '.$input.'|sed "s:^\([0-9]\+\).*:\1:gi"`;lfinish=`expr $lfinish - 1`;cat '.$input.' |sed -n "`echo $lstart`,`echo $lfinish`p" | sed \':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g\' > findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Number of atoms in unit cell:" '.$input.' -A1 | tail -n1  >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Space Group" '.$input.' | awk \'{print $3}\'  >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Origin at" '.$input.' | awk \'{print $3 "\t" $4 "\t" $5}\'  >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Vectors a,b,c:" '.$input.' -A3 | tail -n3  >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Values of a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma:" '.$input.' -A1 | tail -n1  >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');
exec('grep "Wyckoff" '.$input.' -A1 -n | grep "^[0-9]\+-[0-9]"| sed "s:\(^[0-9]\+\)-[0-9]\+\(.*\):\1\t\2:gi" >> findsymm2cif_php.tmp');

if($input == "findsymm2cif_php2.tmp")
{
    $input = "php://stdin";
    //unlink("findsymm2cif_php2.tmp");
}

//exec("sh findsymm2cif.sh findsymm.out",$file);

$file = file("findsymm2cif_php.tmp");
$type_atoms = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[0]));
$specie_count = Array();
$k = 0;
$specie_count[$k] = 1;
for($i=1; $i < sizeof($type_atoms); $i++)
{
    if($type_atoms[$i] != $type_atoms[$i-1])
        $k++;
    $specie_count[$k]++;
}
for($i=1; $i<sizeof($specie_count); $i++)
    $specie_count[$i] += $specie_count[$i-1];
//print_r($specie_count);

$numatoms = trim($file[1]);
$sgno = trim($file[2]);
$origin_shift = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[3]));
$tr_x = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[4]));
$tr_y = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[5]));
$tr_z = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[6]));
$params = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[7]));
$specie = Array();
for($i = 8;$i<sizeof($file);$i++)
    $specie[] = split("[ \t]+",trim($file[$i]));
$totatoms = 0;
for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($specie)-1; $i++)
{
    $specie[$i][0] = $specie[$i+1][0] - $specie[$i][0] - 1;
    $totatoms += $specie[$i][0];
}
$specie[sizeof($specie)-1][0] = $numatoms - $totatoms;
//print_r($specie);
//print_r($specie_count);
$atoms_counted = 0;
for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($specie); $i++)
{
    # Going over atoms
    $atoms_counted += $specie[$i][0];
    for($j = 0; $j<sizeof($specie_count); $j++)
    {
        if($atoms_counted <= $specie_count[$j])
        {
            $specie[$i][0] = $species_type_template[$j];
            break;
        }
    }
}
//print_r($specie);

if($_GET["identical"])
{
    # Calculate the atom positions corresponding with the given POSCAR
    $trmatrix=Array();
    $trmatrix[0][0] = $tr_x[0];
    $trmatrix[0][1] = $tr_x[1];
    $trmatrix[0][2] = $tr_x[2];
    $trmatrix[1][0] = $tr_y[0];
    $trmatrix[1][1] = $tr_y[1];
    $trmatrix[1][2] = $tr_y[2];
    $trmatrix[2][0] = $tr_z[0];
    $trmatrix[2][1] = $tr_z[1];
    $trmatrix[2][2] = $tr_z[2];

    for($i=0;$i < sizeof($specie); $i++)
    {
        $x = $specie[$i][1];
        $y = $specie[$i][2];
        $z = $specie[$i][3];
        
        $xx = $x*$trmatrix[0][0] + $y*$trmatrix[1][0] + $z*$trmatrix[2][0];
        $yy = $x*$trmatrix[0][1] + $y*$trmatrix[1][1] + $z*$trmatrix[2][1];
        $zz = $x*$trmatrix[0][2] + $y*$trmatrix[1][2] + $z*$trmatrix[2][2];

        $xx += $origin_shift[0];
        $yy += $origin_shift[1];
        $zz += $origin_shift[2];

        $specie[$i][1] = $xx;
        $specie[$i][2] = $yy;
        $specie[$i][3] = $zz;

        for($j=1;$j<4;$j++)
        {
            while($specie[$i][$j]>=1.0)
                $specie[$i][$j]-=1.0;
            while($specie[$i][$j]<0.0)
                $specie[$i][$j]+=1.0;
        }

    }
}

$fp = fopen($outfile,"w");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_length_a"."\t".$params[0]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_length_b"."\t".$params[1]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_length_c"."\t".$params[2]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_angle_alpha"."\t".$params[3]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_angle_beta"."\t".$params[4]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_cell_angle_gamma"."\t".$params[5]."\n");
fwrite($fp,"_symmetry_Int_Tables_number"."\t".$sgno."\n\n");
fwrite($fp, "loop_\n_atom_site_label\n_atom_site_type_symbol\n_atom_site_fract_x\n_atom_site_fract_y\n_atom_site_fract_z\n");
//print_r ($specie);
$k = 0;
$specie_type = $specie[0][0];
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($specie);$i++)
{
    if($specie[$i][0] == $specie_type)
        $k++;
    else
    {
        $k = 1;
        $specie_type = $specie[$i][0];
    }
    fwrite($fp, $specie[$i][0].sprintf("%02d",$k)."\t".$specie[$i][0]."\t".sprintf("%8.5f",$specie[$i][1])."\t".sprintf("%8.5f",$specie[$i][2])."\t".sprintf("%8.5f",$specie[$i][3])."\n");
}
fclose($fp);
?>

Some unit cell functions for Octave

May 23, 2009 Posted by Emre S. Tasci

I’ve written some functions to aid in checking the transformations as well as switching between the parameter ↔ vector representations.

latpar2vec([a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma])
Given the a,b,c,α,β and γ, the function calculates the lattice vectors

function f=latpar2vec(X)
% function f=latpar2vec([a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma])
% Calculates the lattice vectors from the given lattice paramaters.
  
a     = X(1);
b     = X(2);
c     = X(3);
alpha = X(4);
beta  = X(5);
gamma = X(6);
 
% Converting the angles to radians:
alpha = d2r(alpha);
beta  = d2r(beta);
gamma = d2r(gamma);
 
%Aligning a with the x axis:
ax = a;
ay = 0;
az = 0;
 
%Orienting b to lie on the x-y plane:
bz = 0;
 
% Now we have 6 unknowns for 6 equations..
bx = b*cos(gamma);
by = (b**2-bx**2)**.5;
cx = c*cos(beta);
cy = (b*c*cos(alpha)-bx*cx)/by;
cz = (c**2-cx**2-cy**2)**.5;
f=[ax ay az
   bx by bz
   cx cy cz];
endfunction

latvec2par([ax ay az; bx by bz; cx cy cz])
Calculates the lattice parameters a,b,c,α,β and γ from the lattice vectors

function f=latvec2par(x)
% function f=latvec2par(x)
%     ax ay az
% x = bx by bz
%     cx cy cz
%
% takes the unit cell vectors and calculates the lattice parameters
% Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>   03/10/08
 
av = x(1,:);
bv = x(2,:);
cv = x(3,:);
 
a = norm(av);
b = norm(bv);
c = norm(cv);
 
alpha = acos((bv*cv')/(b*c))*180/pi;
beta  = acos((av*cv')/(a*c))*180/pi;
gamma = acos((av*bv')/(a*b))*180/pi;
 
f = [a b c alpha beta gamma];
endfunction

volcell([a,b,c,A,B,G])
Calculates the volume of the cell from the given lattice parameters, which is the determinant of the matrice build from the lattice vectors.

function f=volcell(X)
% function f=volcell([a,b,c,A,B,G])
% Calculate the cell volume from lattice parameters
%
% Emre S. Tasci, 09/2008
a=X(1);
b=X(2);
c=X(3);
A=X(4); % alpha
B=X(5); % beta
G=X(6); % gamma
 f=a*b*c*(1-cos(d2r(A))^2-cos(d2r(B))^2-cos(d2r(G))^2+2*cos(d2r(A))*cos(d2r(B))*cos(d2r(G)))^.5;
endfunction

Why’s there no “volcell” function for the unit cell vectors? You’re joking, right? (det(vector)) ! 🙂

Example

octave:13> % Define the unit cell for PtSn4 :
octave:13> A = latpar2vec([ 6.41900 11.35700  6.38800  90.0000  90.0000  90.0000 ])
A =
 
    6.41900    0.00000    0.00000
    0.00000   11.35700    0.00000
    0.00000    0.00000    6.38800
 
octave:14> % Cell volume :
octave:14> Apar = [ 6.41900 11.35700  6.38800  90.0000  90.0000  90.0000 ]
Apar =
 
    6.4190   11.3570    6.3880   90.0000   90.0000   90.0000
 
octave:15> % Define the unit cell for PtSn4 :
octave:15> Apar=[ 6.41900 11.35700  6.38800  90.0000  90.0000  90.0000 ]
Apar =
 
    6.4190   11.3570    6.3880   90.0000   90.0000   90.0000
 
octave:16> % Cell volume :
octave:16> Avol = volcell (Apar)
Avol =  465.69
 
octave:17> % Calculate the lattice vectors :
octave:17> A = latpar2vec (Apar)
A =
 
    6.41900    0.00000    0.00000
    0.00000   11.35700    0.00000
    0.00000    0.00000    6.38800
 
octave:18> % Verify the volume :
octave:18> det(A)
ans =  465.69
 
octave:19> % Define the transformation matrix :
octave:19> R = [ 0 0 -1 ; -1 0 0 ; .5 .5 0]
R =
 
   0.00000   0.00000  -1.00000
  -1.00000   0.00000   0.00000
   0.50000   0.50000   0.00000
 
octave:21> % The reduced unit cell volume will be half of the original one as is evident from :
octave:21> det(R)
ans =  0.50000
 
octave:22> % Do the transformation :
octave:22> N = R*A
N =
 
  -0.00000  -0.00000  -6.38800
  -6.41900   0.00000   0.00000
   3.20950   5.67850   0.00000
 
octave:23> % The reduced cell parameters :
octave:23> Npar = latvec2par (N)
Npar =
 
     6.3880     6.4190     6.5227   119.4752    90.0000    90.0000
 
octave:24> % And the volume :
octave:24> det(N), volcell (Npar)
ans =  232.84
ans =  232.84

POSCAR2Cif

 Posted by Emre S. Tasci

Converts POSCAR files to CIF format. Uses Octave (latvec2par) to convert the unit cell vectors to lattice cell parameters. It is assumed (compulsory) that the atom coordinates in the POSCAR file are in fractional (direct) coordinates.

Parameters

f         : input file  (Default = POSCAR)
o         : output file (Default = &lt;inputfilename&gt;.cif)
t         : if set (t=1), then the output is written to the screen
speclist  : Define the name of the species, seperated by 'xx' or ',' to be used
            with neighbour listing (Default = AxxBxxCxx...)
            (Labels can also be seperated via [space] as long as speclist is given
            in quotation -- Example: ... speclist=\"Au Si\" )

Example

sururi@husniya OUTCARs_final_structures $ cat POSCAR_Pd3S
Pd3S
   1.00000000000000
     4.7454403619558345    0.0098182468538853    0.0000000000000000
    -1.4895902658503473    4.5055989020479856    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    7.2191545483192190
   6   2
Direct
  0.1330548697855782  0.5102695954022698  0.2500000000000000
  0.4897304045977232  0.8669451452144267  0.7500000000000000
  0.5128136657304309  0.1302873334247993  0.2500000000000000
  0.8697126665752007  0.4871863042695738  0.7500000000000000
  0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.0000000000000000
  0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.5000000000000000
  0.6856021298170862  0.6825558526447357  0.2500000000000000
  0.3174442073552622  0.3143978111829124  0.7500000000000000

sururi@husniya OUTCARs_final_structures $ php POSCAR2CIF.php f=POSCAR_Pd3S t=1 speclist=Pd,S
data_
loop_
_symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz
x,y,z
_cell_length_a  4.745451
_cell_length_b  4.745451
_cell_length_c  7.219155
_cell_angle_alpha       90.000000
_cell_angle_beta        90.000000
_cell_angle_gamma       108.175792
loop_
_atom_site_label
_atom_site_type_symbol
_atom_site_fract_x
_atom_site_fract_y
_atom_site_fract_z
Pd01    Pd        0.1330548697855782  0.5102695954022698  0.2500000000000000
Pd02    Pd        0.4897304045977232  0.8669451452144267  0.7500000000000000
Pd03    Pd        0.5128136657304309  0.1302873334247993  0.2500000000000000
Pd04    Pd        0.8697126665752007  0.4871863042695738  0.7500000000000000
Pd05    Pd        0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.0000000000000000
Pd06    Pd        0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.5000000000000000
S01     S         0.6856021298170862  0.6825558526447357  0.2500000000000000
S02     S         0.3174442073552622  0.3143978111829124  0.7500000000000000

Code

#!/usr/bin/php
<?PHP
/* Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
 * Script name: POSCAR2CIF.php                           *
 * Converts the specified POSCAR file to CIF format      *
 * Uses octave to convert the unit cell vectors          *
 * to lattice parameters.                                *
 *                                              23/05/09 */
 
 
//require("/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php"); # Equivalent handling of $_GET / $_POST
# ============/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php========================================
// Enables the same treat for command line parameters
// as those of GET parameters.
// Also sets the $first, $last ranges including the gall parameter
 
//Support for command line variable passing:
for($i=1;$i<sizeof($_SERVER["argv"]);$i++)
{
  list($var0,$val0) = explode("=",$_SERVER["argv"][$i]);
  $_GET[$var0] = $val0;
}
 
$first = -2; //disabled by default
$last  = -3;
 
if($_GET["gfirst"]) $first = $_GET["gfirst"];
if($_GET["glast"] ) $last  = $_GET["glast"];
if($_GET["gall"] ) {$first = $_GET["gall"]; $last = $first;}
# ============/code/toolbox/commandline.inc.php========================================
 
 
if($_GET["h"]||$_GET["help"])
{
$help = <<<lol
 * Script name: POSCAR2CIF.php                           *
 * Converts the specified POSCAR file to CIF format      *
 * Uses octave to convert the unit cell vectors          *
 * to lattice parameters.                                *
 
 * Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
 *                                              23/05/09 *
 
 Usage:
 f         : input file  (Default = POSCAR)
 o         : output file (Default = <inputfilename>.cif)
 t         : if set (t=1), then the output is written to the screen
 speclist  : Define the name of the species, seperated by 'xx' or ',' to be used
             with neighbour listing (Default = AxxBxxCxx...)
             (Labels can also be seperated via [space] as long as speclist is given
             in quotation -- Example: ... speclist=\"Au Si\" )
 
 Example : php POSCAR2CIF.php f=POSCAR_RhBi4 speclist=Bi,Rh
lol;
 echo $help."\n";
 exit;
}
 
 
if($_GET["file"])$inputfile = $_GET["file"];
else if($_GET["f"])$inputfile = $_GET["f"];
else $inputfile="POSCAR";
 
$outfile = $inputfile.".cif";
if($_GET["o"]) $outfile=$_GET["o"];
if($_GET["t"]) $outfile = "php://stdout";
 
$species_type_template = Array("A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z");
if($_GET["speclist"])$species_type_template = split("xx| |,",$_GET["speclist"]);
 
//echo sizeof($_GET["speclist"])."\n";
exec('sed -n "3,6p" '.$inputfile.'|awk \'{print $1"\t"$2"\t"$3}\'',$out);
$octfp = fopen("octrungetvolnpar.m","w");
 
fwrite($octfp,"kini=[\n");
for ($i=0;$i<3;$i++)
    fwrite($octfp,$out[$i]."\n");
fwrite($octfp,"];\n\n");
 
fwrite($octfp,"numatom = [".$out[3]."];\n\n");
$numatoms = split("[ \t]+",trim($out[3]));
 
// Write the octave operations
fwrite($octfp,"k1 = latvec2par (kini);totatom=sum(numatom );\n");
fwrite($octfp,"for i=1:6;printf(\"%f\\n\",k1(i));endfor;\nprintf(\"%d\\n\",totatom)\n");
 
fclose($octfp);
 
// Execute the octave file to find the lattice parameters and volume
exec('octave -q '.$thisdir.'octrungetvolnpar.m',$out3);
unlink("octrungetvolnpar.m");
//echo $out3[0]."\n";
 
/*
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($out3);$i++)
    echo $i."\t".$out3[$i]."\n";
 */
 
exec('grep "Direct" '.$inputfile.' -n|sed "s:^\([0-9]\+\).*:\1:"',$start);# Line number of the Direct prompt
$start = $start[0];
$start++;
$finish = $start+$out3[sizeof($out3)-1]-1;
exec('sed -n "'.$start.','.$finish.'p" '.$inputfile,$outr);
$fpo = fopen($outfile, "w");
fwrite($fpo, "data_\nloop_\n_symmetry_equiv_pos_as_xyz\nx,y,z\n");
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_length_a\t".$out3[0]."\n");
//echo $out3[0];
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_length_b\t".$out3[1]."\n");
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_length_c\t".$out3[2]."\n");
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_angle_alpha\t".$out3[3]."\n");
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_angle_beta\t".$out3[4]."\n");
fwrite($fpo, "_cell_angle_gamma\t".$out3[5]."\n");
fwrite($fpo, "loop_\n_atom_site_label\n_atom_site_type_symbol\n_atom_site_fract_x\n_atom_site_fract_y\n_atom_site_fract_z\n");
$k = 0;
for($specie=0;$specie<sizeof($numatoms);$specie++)
    for($i=1;$i<=$numatoms[$specie];$i++)
    {
        fwrite($fpo, $species_type_template[$specie].sprintf("%02d",$i)."\t".$species_type_template[$specie]."\t".$outr[$k]."\n");
        $k++;
    }
 
 
fclose($fpo);
?>

POSCAR2findsymm

March 24, 2009 Posted by Emre S. Tasci

A very simple code I wrote while studying the Python language that fetches the information from a VASP POSCAR file and prepares (and feeds) the input for Harold Stokes’ findsym (you should actually download the executable included in the ISOTROPY package instead of the referred web version) program to find the unit cell symmetry.

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
POSCAR2findsym.py
/* Emre S. Tasci <e.tasci@tudelft.nl>                    *
   A simple python code that parses the POSCAR file,
   prepares an input file for Harold Stokes' findsym
   (http://stokes.byu.edu/isotropy.html)
   executable.

   Then, checks the current system to see if findsym is
   accessible: if it is, then feeds the prepared file 
   and directly outputs the result; if findsym is not 
   executable then outputs the generated input file.

   If you are interested only in the results section of 
   the findsymm output, you should append "| grep "\-\-\-\-\-\-" -A1000"
   to the execution of this code.

   Accepts alternative POSCAR filename for argument
   (default = POSCAR)

   If a second argument is proposed then acts as if
   findsym is not accessible (ie, prints out the input
   file instead of feeding it to findsymm)

                                             10/03/09 */
"""

import sys
import re
from numpy import *
from os import popen
import commands

force_output = False

if len(sys.argv)<2:
    filename="POSCAR"
elif len(sys.argv)<3:
    filename=sys.argv[1]
else:
    filename=sys.argv[1]
    force_output = True

f = open(filename,'r')

title = f.readline().strip()
tolerance = 0.00001
latt_vec_type = 1 # We will be specifying in vectors

f.readline() # Read Dummy
lat_vec = array([])
for i in range(0,3):
    lat_vec = append(lat_vec,f.readline().strip())

# Read atom species
species_count = f.readline()
species_count = re.split('[\ ]+', species_count.strip())
species_count = map(int,species_count)
number_of_species = len(species_count)
total_atoms = sum(species_count)

initial_guess = "P" # For the centering

species_designation = array([])
for i in range(1,number_of_species+1):
    for j in range(0,species_count[i-1]):
        species_designation = append(species_designation,i)

species_designation = map(str,map(int,species_designation))
# print species_designation
sep = " "
# print sep.join(species_designation)

# Read Coordinates
f.readline() # Read Dummy
pos_vec = array([])
for i in range(0,total_atoms):
    pos_vec = append(pos_vec,f.readline().strip())

# print pos_vec

findsym_input = array([])
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, title)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, tolerance)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, latt_vec_type)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, lat_vec)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, 2)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, initial_guess)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, total_atoms)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, species_designation)
findsym_input = append(findsym_input, pos_vec)
# print findsym_input
sep = "\n"
findsym_input_txt = sep.join(findsym_input)
# print findsym_input_txt

# Check if findsym is accessible:
status,output =  commands.getstatusoutput("echo \"\n\n\"|findsym ")
if(output.find("command not found")!=-1 or force_output):
    # if it is not there, then just output the input
    print findsym_input_txt
elif(status==6144):
    # feed it to findsym
    pipe = popen("echo \""+findsym_input_txt+"\" | findsym").readlines()
    for line in pipe:
        print line.strip()
quit()

Example Usage:

sururi@husniya POSCAR2findsym $ cat POSCAR
Si(S)-Au(Pd) -- Pd3S
   1.00000000000000
     4.7454403619558345    0.0098182468538853    0.0000000000000000
    -1.4895902658503473    4.5055989020479856    0.0000000000000000
     0.0000000000000000    0.0000000000000000    7.2191545483192190
   6   2
Direct
  0.1330548697855782  0.5102695954022698  0.2500000000000000
  0.4897304045977232  0.8669451452144267  0.7500000000000000
  0.5128136657304309  0.1302873334247993  0.2500000000000000
  0.8697126665752007  0.4871863042695738  0.7500000000000000
  0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.0000000000000000
  0.0013210250693640  0.9986789749306360  0.5000000000000000
  0.6856021298170862  0.6825558526447357  0.2500000000000000
  0.3174442073552622  0.3143978111829124  0.7500000000000000

sururi@husniya POSCAR2findsym $ python POSCAR2findsym.py
FINDSYM, Version 3.2.3, August 2007
Written by Harold T. Stokes and Dorian M. Hatch
Brigham Young University
 
Si(S)-Au(Pd) -- Pd3S
Tolerance:    0.00001
Lattice vectors in cartesian coordinates:
4.74544   0.00982   0.00000
-1.48959   4.50560   0.00000
0.00000   0.00000   7.21915
Lattice parameters, a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma:
4.74545   4.74545   7.21915  90.00000  90.00000 108.17579
Centering: P
Number of atoms in unit cell:
8
Type of each atom:
1  1  1  1  1  1  2  2
Position of each atom (dimensionless coordinates)
1   0.13305   0.51027   0.25000
2   0.48973   0.86695   0.75000
3   0.51281   0.13029   0.25000
4   0.86971   0.48719   0.75000
5   0.00132   0.99868   0.00000
6   0.00132   0.99868   0.50000
7   0.68560   0.68256   0.25000
8   0.31744   0.31440   0.75000
------------------------------------------
Space Group  40  C2v-16    Ama2
Origin at    0.00000   0.00000   0.50000
Vectors a,b,c:
0.00000   0.00000   1.00000
-1.00000  -1.00000   0.00000
1.00000  -1.00000   0.00000
Values of a,b,c,alpha,beta,gamma:
7.21915   5.56683   7.68685  90.00000  90.00000  90.00000
Atomic positions in terms of a,b,c:
Wyckoff position b, y = -0.17834, z =  0.31139
1   0.75000   0.17834   0.31139
2   0.25000   0.82166   0.31139
Wyckoff position b, y =  0.32155, z =  0.19126
3   0.75000   0.17845   0.69126
4   0.25000   0.82155   0.69126
Wyckoff position a, z =  0.00132
5   0.50000   0.00000   0.00132
6   0.00000   0.00000   0.00132
Wyckoff position b, y = -0.31592, z =  0.00152
7   0.75000   0.81592   0.50152
8   0.25000   0.18408   0.50152