matscipy.calculators.supercell_calculator

Run calculation on a supercell of the atomic structure.

Classes

SupercellCalculator(calc, supercell)

class matscipy.calculators.supercell_calculator.SupercellCalculator(calc, supercell)

Bases: Calculator

Attributes:

directory

label

Methods

band_structure()	Create band-structure object for plotting.
calculate(atoms, properties, system_changes)	Do the calculation.
calculate_numerical_forces(atoms[, d])	Calculate numerical forces using finite difference.
calculate_numerical_stress(atoms[, d, voigt])	Calculate numerical stress using finite difference.
calculate_properties(atoms, properties)	This method is experimental; currently for internal use.
check_state(atoms[, tol])	Check for any system changes since last calculation.
get_magnetic_moments([atoms])	Calculate magnetic moments projected onto atoms.
get_property(name[, atoms, allow_calculation])	Get the named property.
get_stresses([atoms])	the calculator should return intensive stresses, i.e., such that stresses.sum(axis=0) == stress
read(label)	Read atoms, parameters and calculated properties from output file.
reset()	Clear all information from old calculation.
set(**kwargs)	Set parameters like set(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...).
set_label(label)	Set label and convert label to directory and prefix.

calculation_required
export_properties
get_atoms
get_charges
get_default_parameters
get_dipole_moment
get_forces
get_magnetic_moment
get_potential_energies
get_potential_energy
get_stress
read_atoms
todict

implemented_properties: List[str] = ['energy', 'stress', 'forces']

Properties calculator can handle (energy, forces, …)

default_parameters: Dict[str, Any] = {}

Default parameters

name = 'EAM'

__init__(calc, supercell)

Basic calculator implementation.

restart: str

Prefix for restart file. May contain a directory. Default is None: don’t restart.

ignore_bad_restart_file: bool

Deprecated, please do not use. Passing more than one positional argument to Calculator() is deprecated and will stop working in the future. Ignore broken or missing restart file. By default, it is an error if the restart file is missing or broken.

directory: str or PurePath

Working directory in which to read and write files and perform calculations.

label: str

Name used for all files. Not supported by all calculators. May contain a directory, but please use the directory parameter for that instead.

atoms: Atoms object

Optional Atoms object to which the calculator will be attached. When restarting, atoms will get its positions and unit-cell updated from file.

calculate(atoms, properties, system_changes)

Do the calculation.

properties: list of str

List of what needs to be calculated. Can be any combination of ‘energy’, ‘forces’, ‘stress’, ‘dipole’, ‘charges’, ‘magmom’ and ‘magmoms’.

system_changes: list of str

List of what has changed since last calculation. Can be any combination of these six: ‘positions’, ‘numbers’, ‘cell’, ‘pbc’, ‘initial_charges’ and ‘initial_magmoms’.

Subclasses need to implement this, but can ignore properties and system_changes if they want. Calculated properties should be inserted into results dictionary like shown in this dummy example:

self.results = {'energy': 0.0,
                'forces': np.zeros((len(atoms), 3)),
                'stress': np.zeros(6),
                'dipole': np.zeros(3),
                'charges': np.zeros(len(atoms)),
                'magmom': 0.0,
                'magmoms': np.zeros(len(atoms))}

The subclass implementation should first call this implementation to set the atoms attribute and create any missing directories.

band_structure()

Create band-structure object for plotting.

calculate_numerical_forces(atoms, d=0.001)

Calculate numerical forces using finite difference.

All atoms will be displaced by +d and -d in all directions.

calculate_numerical_stress(atoms, d=1e-06, voigt=True)

Calculate numerical stress using finite difference.

calculate_properties(atoms, properties)

This method is experimental; currently for internal use.

calculation_required(atoms, properties)

check_state(atoms, tol=1e-15)

Check for any system changes since last calculation.

property directory: str

discard_results_on_any_change = False

Whether we purge the results following any change in the set() method.

export_properties()

get_atoms()

get_charges(atoms=None)

get_default_parameters()

get_dipole_moment(atoms=None)

get_forces(atoms=None)

get_magnetic_moment(atoms=None)

get_magnetic_moments(atoms=None)

Calculate magnetic moments projected onto atoms.

get_potential_energies(atoms=None)

get_potential_energy(atoms=None, force_consistent=False)

get_property(name, atoms=None, allow_calculation=True)

Get the named property.

get_stress(atoms=None)

get_stresses(atoms=None)

the calculator should return intensive stresses, i.e., such that stresses.sum(axis=0) == stress

ignored_changes: Set[str] = {}

Properties of Atoms which we ignore for the purposes of cache

property label

read(label)

Read atoms, parameters and calculated properties from output file.

Read result from self.label file. Raise ReadError if the file is not there. If the file is corrupted or contains an error message from the calculation, a ReadError should also be raised. In case of succes, these attributes must set:

atoms: Atoms object

The state of the atoms from last calculation.

parameters: Parameters object

The parameter dictionary.

results: dict

Calculated properties like energy and forces.

The FileIOCalculator.read() method will typically read atoms and parameters and get the results dict by calling the read_results() method.

classmethod read_atoms(restart, **kwargs)

reset()

Clear all information from old calculation.

set(**kwargs)

Set parameters like set(key1=value1, key2=value2, …).

A dictionary containing the parameters that have been changed is returned.

Subclasses must implement a set() method that will look at the chaneged parameters and decide if a call to reset() is needed. If the changed parameters are harmless, like a change in verbosity, then there is no need to call reset().

The special keyword ‘parameters’ can be used to read parameters from a file.

set_label(label)

Set label and convert label to directory and prefix.

Examples:

• label=’abc’: (directory=’.’, prefix=’abc’)

• label=’dir1/abc’: (directory=’dir1’, prefix=’abc’)

• label=None: (directory=’.’, prefix=None)

todict(skip_default=True)