[RMCProfile-users] [EXTERNAL] Using gpar_to_tot_gen

Fri May 29 16:49:01 BST 2020

The normalization factor depends on the definition of the total PDF that you want to calculate.  For one definition it is simply "1", for another it is <b>^2...see J. Appl. Cryst. (2001) 34 172.  But there is a subtlety here as it depends whether the weighted partial PDFs are added together or whether the weighted (partial PDFs - 1) are added together (c.f. Eqtns 17 and 10 in the reference).  I haven't used the program (but plan to now I know that it exists!) so I don't know which version of the summation is used, so I advise that the output is checked carefully!

Best wishes
Dave

On 29/05/2020, 16:22, "rmcprofile-users on behalf of Zhang, Yuanpeng via rmcprofile-users" <rmcprofile-users-bounces at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk on behalf of rmcprofile-users at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> wrote:

    Sorry, I forgot the normalization factor in the coefficient, which is actually the sum of the coefficient for all pairs, i. e. the Faber-Ziman coefficient.

    Cheers,
    yuanpeng

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    Hello,

    I apologize if this question has been asked already.

    I am trying to calculate theoretical PDF by using gpar_to_tot_gen program.
    I already have my partial PDF files as well.The use of this program requires knowledge of the scattering coefficients corresponding to each pair of atoms , eg for SF6, one coefficient each corresponding to S-S, S-F, and F-F pairs.

    Does the scattering coefficient for the bond mean the Faber-Ziman weighting coefficients calculated as (C_a * C_b * B_a * B_b)/ <B>^2 where C_i is the concentration of atom i, B_i is the scattering length of atom i and <B> represents the average scattering length of all the atoms involved?

    Thanks,
    Sumit Khadka
    University of Houston, Houston, TX
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