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Real space grid characteristics<br />

Natural boundary conditions for different problems.<br />

Systematically improve discretisation quality:<br />

Decrease <strong>the</strong> spacing.<br />

Increase <strong>the</strong> box size.<br />

Orthogonal “basis set”.<br />

Independent of a<strong>to</strong>mic positions (no Pulay forces).<br />

Problems:<br />

Breaking of translational invariance: egg-box effect.<br />

Breaking of rotational invariance.<br />

X. Andrade (EHU/UPV) <strong>Introduction</strong> <strong>to</strong> Oc<strong>to</strong>pus Benasque, September 2008 9 / 20

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