# pymatgen.analysis.bond_valence module¶

class BVAnalyzer(symm_tol=0.1, max_radius=4, max_permutations=100000, distance_scale_factor=1.015, charge_neutrality_tolerance=1e-05, forbidden_species=None)[source]

Bases: object

This class implements a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation method to determine oxidation states in a structure. The algorithm is as follows: 1) The bond valence sum of all symmetrically distinct sites in a structure is calculated using the element-based parameters in M. O’Keefe, & N. Brese, JACS, 1991, 113(9), 3226-3229. doi:10.1021/ja00009a002. 2) The posterior probabilities of all oxidation states is then calculated using: P(oxi_state/BV) = K * P(BV/oxi_state) * P(oxi_state), where K is a constant factor for each element. P(BV/oxi_state) is calculated as a Gaussian with mean and std deviation determined from an analysis of the ICSD. The posterior P(oxi_state) is determined from a frequency analysis of the ICSD. 3) The oxidation states are then ranked in order of decreasing probability and the oxidation state combination that result in a charge neutral cell is selected.

Initializes the BV analyzer, with useful defaults.

Parameters
• symm_tol – Symmetry tolerance used to determine which sites are symmetrically equivalent. Set to 0 to turn off symmetry.

• max_radius – Maximum radius in Angstrom used to find nearest neighbors.

• max_permutations – The maximum number of permutations of oxidation states to test.

• distance_scale_factor – A scale factor to be applied. This is useful for scaling distances, esp in the case of calculation-relaxed structures which may tend to under (GGA) or over bind (LDA). The default of 1.015 works for GGA. For experimental structure, set this to 1.

• charge_neutrality_tolerance – Tolerance on the charge neutrality when unordered structures are at stake.

• forbidden_species – List of species that are forbidden (example : [“O-“] cannot be used) It is used when e.g. someone knows that some oxidation state cannot occur for some atom in a structure or list of structures.

CHARGE_NEUTRALITY_TOLERANCE = 1e-05
get_oxi_state_decorated_structure(structure)[source]

Get an oxidation state decorated structure. This currently works only for ordered structures only.

Parameters

structure – Structure to analyze

Returns

A modified structure that is oxidation state decorated.

Raises

ValueError if the valences cannot be determined.

get_valences(structure)[source]

Returns a list of valences for the structure. This currently works only for ordered structures only.

Parameters

structure – Structure to analyze

Returns

A list of valences for each site in the structure (for an ordered structure), e.g., [1, 1, -2] or a list of lists with the valences for each fractional element of each site in the structure (for an unordered structure), e.g., [[2, 4], [3], [-2], [-2], [-2]]

Raises

A ValueError if the valences cannot be determined.

add_oxidation_state_by_site_fraction(structure, oxidation_states)[source]

Add oxidation states to a structure by fractional site.

Parameters

oxidation_states (list) – List of list of oxidation states for each site fraction for each site. E.g., [[2, 4], [3], [-2], [-2], [-2]]

calculate_bv_sum(site, nn_list, scale_factor=1.0)[source]

Calculates the BV sum of a site.

Parameters
• site – The site

• nn_list – List of nearest neighbors in the format [(nn_site, dist), …].

• scale_factor – A scale factor to be applied. This is useful for scaling distance, esp in the case of calculation-relaxed structures which may tend to under (GGA) or over bind (LDA).

calculate_bv_sum_unordered(site, nn_list, scale_factor=1)[source]

Calculates the BV sum of a site for unordered structures.

Parameters
• site – The site

• nn_list – List of nearest neighbors in the format [(nn_site, dist), …].

• scale_factor – A scale factor to be applied. This is useful for scaling distance, esp in the case of calculation-relaxed structures which may tend to under (GGA) or over bind (LDA).

get_z_ordered_elmap(comp)[source]

Arbitrary ordered elmap on the elements/species of a composition of a given site in an unordered structure. Returns a list of tuples ( element_or_specie: occupation) in the arbitrary order.

The arbitrary order is based on the Z of the element and the smallest fractional occupations first. Example : {“Ni3+”: 0.2, “Ni4+”: 0.2, “Cr3+”: 0.15, “Zn2+”: 0.34, “Cr4+”: 0.11} will yield the species in the following order : Cr4+, Cr3+, Ni3+, Ni4+, Zn2+ … or Cr4+, Cr3+, Ni4+, Ni3+, Zn2+