Hello,<div>I am trying to investigate the optical absorption spectra of iron impurities in quartz, the problem is the impurities are only trace amounts in a larger crystal, specifically the iron replaces one silicon. So using the periodic options in CP2K I need to simulate quite a lot of the regular quartz in order to have a decent ratio between the Silicon and Iron.</div><div>I'm not particularly interested in the excitation energies of all the different silicon atoms, just the iron and the oxygens immediately adjacent.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am currently using an edited version of the TDDFT example here:</div><div>https://manual.cp2k.org/trunk/methods/properties/optical/tddft.html</div><div><br /></div><div>I am wondering if maybe I could perform a geometry optimisation, export/save the potentials from that and then run the energy sim and use the EXTERNAL_POTENTIAL in DFT with only the atoms I want to see the excitation energies of? Does the DFT EXTERNAL_POTENTIAL get used when applying TDDFT?? Is that even what EXTERNAL_POTENTIAL is meant for??</div><div><br /></div><div>This is all further complicated by the fact that I am working with fairly limited computing power so if I am able to reduce the number of atoms simulated that will be a huge help!!<br /><br />Thank you if anyone can help!!</div>
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