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Fixing atomic positions

Paratec offers the possibility to fix atoms to their input coordinates, meaning they will not move during the relaxation process. This is simply done by zeroing out the Hellman-Feynman forces. To fix atoms to their original positions, use the stay_put structure. The following example fixes the positions of atoms number 1, 3, and 10.

begin stay_put
stay_put 1
stay_put 3
stay_put 10

Default: all atoms are relaxed.



Andrew Canning
Wed May 13 15:17:45 PDT 1998