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[WIP] Fix bug in vacuum energy computation for magnetic perturbation#103

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[WIP] Fix bug in vacuum energy computation for magnetic perturbation#103
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Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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There seems to be an insidious bug in this fortran to julia conversion we are working on. This is a vacuum energy code that computes vacuum response to a magnetic perturbation with a green's function method. It has options to use a wall. When we use a wall, the vacuum energy matrix is fairly different, order 15% or so.

Please look inside src/Vacuum/ to find the julia version, with the fortran version found in a subdirectory fortran/. Try and find the source of this bug. Pay especially close attention to indexing.

To test your work, run the following command from the top of the project directory:
julia --project="." ./examples/Solovev_ideal_example/vacuum_wall_debug.jl

Please investigate this and open a pull request summarizing your results, and post the pre- and post-fix difference matrix as computed by the supplied debug script.


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