# pymatgen.analysis.ewald module¶

This module provides classes for calculating the ewald sum of a structure.

class EwaldMinimizer(matrix, m_list, num_to_return=1, algo=0)[source]

Bases: object

This class determines the manipulations that will minimize an ewald matrix, given a list of possible manipulations. This class does not perform the manipulations on a structure, but will return the list of manipulations that should be done on one to produce the minimal structure. It returns the manipulations for the n lowest energy orderings. This class should be used to perform fractional species substitution or fractional species removal to produce a new structure. These manipulations create large numbers of candidate structures, and this class can be used to pick out those with the lowest ewald sum.

An alternative (possibly more intuitive) interface to this class is the order disordered structure transformation.

Author - Will Richards

Parameters
• matrix – A matrix of the ewald sum interaction energies. This is stored in the class as a diagonally symmetric array and so self._matrix will not be the same as the input matrix.

• m_list – list of manipulations. each item is of the form (multiplication fraction, number_of_indices, indices, species) These are sorted such that the first manipulation contains the most permutations. this is actually evaluated last in the recursion since I’m using pop.

• num_to_return – The minimizer will find the number_returned lowest energy structures. This is likely to return a number of duplicate structures so it may be necessary to overestimate and then remove the duplicates later. (duplicate checking in this process is extremely expensive)

ALGO_BEST_FIRST = 2[source]

Slowly increases the speed (with the cost of decreasing accuracy) as the minimizer runs. Attempts to limit the run time to approximately 30 minutes.

Type

ALGO_TIME_LIMIT

ALGO_COMPLETE = 1[source]
ALGO_FAST = 0[source]
ALGO_TIME_LIMIT = 3[source]
add_m_list(matrix_sum, m_list)[source]

This adds an m_list to the output_lists and updates the current minimum if the list is full.

best_case(matrix, m_list, indices_left)[source]

Computes a best case given a matrix and manipulation list.

Parameters
• matrix – the current matrix (with some permutations already performed)

• m_list – [(multiplication fraction, number_of_indices, indices, species)] describing the manipulation

• indices – Set of indices which haven’t had a permutation performed on them.

property best_m_list[source]

Best m_list found.

Type

Returns

classmethod get_next_index(matrix, manipulation, indices_left)[source]

Returns an index that should have the most negative effect on the matrix sum

minimize_matrix()[source]

This method finds and returns the permutations that produce the lowest ewald sum calls recursive function to iterate through permutations

property minimized_sum[source]

Minimized sum

Type

Returns

property output_lists[source]

output lists.

Type

Returns

class EwaldSummation(structure, real_space_cut=None, recip_space_cut=None, eta=None, acc_factor=12.0, w=0.7071067811865475, compute_forces=False)[source]

Bases: monty.json.MSONable

Calculates the electrostatic energy of a periodic array of charges using the Ewald technique.

Ref: Ewald summation techniques in perspective: a survey Abdulnour Y. Toukmaji and John A. Board Jr. DOI: 10.1016/0010-4655(96)00016-1 URL: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~ayt/ewaldpaper/ewaldpaper.html

This matrix can be used to do fast calculations of ewald sums after species removal.

E = E_recip + E_real + E_point

Atomic units used in the code, then converted to eV.

Initializes and calculates the Ewald sum. Default convergence parameters have been specified, but you can override them if you wish.

Parameters
• structure (Structure) – Input structure that must have proper Species on all sites, i.e. Element with oxidation state. Use Structure.add_oxidation_state… for example.

• real_space_cut (float) – Real space cutoff radius dictating how many terms are used in the real space sum. Defaults to None, which means determine automagically using the formula given in gulp 3.1 documentation.

• recip_space_cut (float) – Reciprocal space cutoff radius. Defaults to None, which means determine automagically using the formula given in gulp 3.1 documentation.

• eta (float) – The screening parameter. Defaults to None, which means determine automatically.

• acc_factor (float) – No. of significant figures each sum is converged to.

• w (float) – Weight parameter, w, has been included that represents the relative computational expense of calculating a term in real and reciprocal space. Default of 0.7 reproduces result similar to GULP 4.2. This has little effect on the total energy, but may influence speed of computation in large systems. Note that this parameter is used only when the cutoffs are set to None.

• compute_forces (bool) – Whether to compute forces. False by default since it is usually not needed.

CONV_FACT = 14.39964547842567[source]
as_dict(verbosity: int = 0) → Dict[source]

Json-serialization dict representation of EwaldSummation.

Parameters

verbosity (int) – Verbosity level. Default of 0 only includes the matrix representation. Set to 1 for more details.

compute_partial_energy(removed_indices)[source]

Gives total ewald energy for certain sites being removed, i.e. zeroed out.

compute_sub_structure(sub_structure, tol=0.001)[source]

Gives total ewald energy for an sub structure in the same lattice. The sub_structure must be a subset of the original structure, with possible different charges.

Parameters
• substructure (Structure) – Substructure to compute Ewald sum for.

• tol (float) – Tolerance for site matching in fractional coordinates.

Returns

Ewald sum of substructure.

property eta[source]

eta value used in Ewald summation.

Type

Returns

property forces[source]

The forces on each site as a Nx3 matrix. Each row corresponds to a site.

classmethod from_dict(d: Dict, fmt: str = None, **kwargs)pymatgen.analysis.ewald.EwaldSummation[source]

Create an EwaldSummation instance from JSON serialized dictionary.

Parameters
• d (Dict) – Dictionary representation

• fmt (str, optional) – Unused. Defaults to None.

Returns

class instance

Return type

EwaldSummation

get_site_energy(site_index)[source]

Compute the energy for a single site in the structure

Parameters

site_index (int) – Index of site

Returns

(float) - Energy of that site

property point_energy[source]

The point energy.

property point_energy_matrix[source]

The point space matrix. A diagonal matrix with the point terms for each site in the diagonal elements.

property real_space_energy[source]

The real space space energy.

property real_space_energy_matrix[source]

The real space energy matrix. Each matrix element (i, j) corresponds to the interaction energy between site i and site j in real space.

property reciprocal_space_energy[source]

The reciprocal space energy.

property reciprocal_space_energy_matrix[source]

The reciprocal space energy matrix. Each matrix element (i, j) corresponds to the interaction energy between site i and site j in reciprocal space.

property total_energy[source]

The total energy.

property total_energy_matrix[source]

The total energy matrix. Each matrix element (i, j) corresponds to the total interaction energy between site i and site j.

Note that this does not include the charged-cell energy, which is only important when the simulation cell is not charge balanced.

compute_average_oxidation_state(site)[source]

Calculates the average oxidation state of a site

Parameters

site – Site to compute average oxidation state

Returns

Average oxidation state of site.