nwchem changing geometry


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I'm doing a sequence of geometry optimizations of some molecules. After I'm done with these optimizations, I'd like to use the optimized geometries as the starting point for a neb calculation. Thus, I'm attempting to keep nwchem from changing the geometry: I've set nocenter, I'm not doing any symmetry detection (I don't know whether that makes a difference).

My input geometry, as echoed in the output file is:

geometry noautoz nocenter
Si        0.66377285     0.11045861    -1.41086290
Si 2.05119755 0.04712728 0.40799947
Si 1.14950827 4.15097940 -1.82083950
Si 1.62781617 4.06542642 0.37169768
Si 1.34623317 -3.86647020 0.27463459
Si 0.90974994 -3.87510485 -2.09529780
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After nwchem reads in the geometry, it then outputs:
   1 Si                  14.0000     0.73890835     0.12506456    -1.30142368
2 Si 14.0000 1.96142044 0.05841406 0.63202929
3 Si 14.0000 1.30732983 4.15677700 -1.69132079
4 Si 14.0000 1.59137813 4.08097149 0.53508598
5 Si 14.0000 1.22357859 -3.84764092 0.46076888
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Which indicates that it has changed the geometry at least a little bit. Is there something that I can set so that it doesn't do any translations of the geometry at all? It probably isn't a big deal, but if I'm not careful of all of the geometries, the bead interpolation in neb can find some pretty wierd structures.

Thanks in advance,

Rick

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Hi, Rick

I think you should add noautosym keyword, like that:

geometry noautoz noautosym nocenter units au
 Si        0.66377285     0.11045861    -1.41086290
 Si        2.05119755     0.04712728     0.40799947
 Si        1.14950827     4.15097940    -1.82083950
 Si        1.62781617     4.06542642     0.37169768
 Si        1.34623317    -3.86647020     0.27463459
 Si        0.90974994    -3.87510485    -2.09529780
end


besides, it is recommended in the documentation
http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php?title=Release65:Nudged_Elastic_Band_%28NEB%29_and_Zero_...

Best regards, Vladimir.

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Quote:Vladimir May 1st 8:57 am
Hi, Rick

I think you should add noautosym keyword, like that:

geometry noautoz noautosym nocenter 


besides, it is recommended in the documentation
http://nwchemgit.github.io/index.php?title=Release65:Nudged_Elastic_Band_%28NEB%29_and_Zero_...

Best regards, Vladimir.


Seems like that worked. Should have seen that in the neb docs. Thanks very much, Vladimir. Rick


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