How to calculate correlations for a disordered state in mcsqs?

Hitanshu Sachania @Hitanshu-Sachania

01 January 1970 1 658 Report

The paper, "Effective Stochastic Generation of SQS" is a bit vague about it. Please help me understand it.

Pedro L. Contreras E.

Dear Hitanshu Sachania ,

The following external link might help with your inquiry :

How to use SQS for disordered materials

by Changning Niu.

http://cniu.me/2017/08/05/SQS.html

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