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The egg-box effect is particularly problematic for calculations where the atoms are allowed to move, for example to study its dynamics (molecular dynamics) or to find the minimum energy configuration (geometry optimization).
The first step In Octopus we have studied several scheme to control the egg-box
effect effect\cite{Andrade2010thesis}. The first step is to use
some sort of pseudo-potential filtering to eliminate Fourier components of the potential that cannot be represented
in on the grid. In Octopus we use the scheme of Tafipolosky and Schmid~\cite{Tafipolsky_2006}.
Additionally, the formulation used to calculate certain properties can reduce the
spurious effect of the grid on the calculations. For example, the calculation of forces requires the evaluation of the
derivative of the energy with respect to the ionic position
\(\vec{R_A}\)
(for simplicity we have considered local ionic
potentials but our results are valid for non-local potentials
as well.) that can be evaluated as the expectation value of
the derivative of the ionic potential
(for simplicity, we have considered local ionic
potentials but the results are valid for non-local potentials
as well)
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\begin{equation}
\label{eq:forcespot}