# Short-range order
Silicon in the short-range order (SRO) regime: tight first-neighbour shell
and well-defined bond angles, but rapid loss of correlation beyond the
nearest shell.
## Parameters
```python
from ase.build import bulk
import tricor as tc
atoms = bulk("Si", "diamond", a=5.431)
shell_target = tc.CoordinationShellTarget.from_atoms(atoms, phi_num_bins=90)
cell = tc.Supercell.from_atoms(
atoms,
cell_dim_angstroms=(40, 40, 40),
r_max=10, r_step=0.1, phi_num_bins=90,
rng_seed=42,
)
cell.generate(
shell_target,
num_steps=180,
grain_size=8.0,
bond_weight=1.5,
angle_weight=0.5,
repulsion_weight=1.8,
hard_core_scale=0.91,
nonbond_push_scale=0.60,
displacement_sigma=0.06,
)
```
## Relaxation trajectory
Interactive 3D viewer of the shell-relaxation trajectory (40 × 40 × 40 Å cell).
Drag to rotate, scroll to zoom. Controls below the canvas play, scrub, and change
playback speed.
## g3 distribution
Measured from the **final (post-relaxation) atoms**. The heatmap is the
reduced three-body density in units of the uniform random reference, where white
= 1.0, blue = depleted, red = enhanced. The lower panel shows the pair
profile g(r); the shaded amber band marks the first-neighbour shell used as
the root-bond integration window for the g3 slice. For silicon there is a
single Si-Si-Si triplet channel.