diff --git a/meta_info/nomad_meta_info/public.nomadmetainfo.json b/meta_info/nomad_meta_info/public.nomadmetainfo.json
index eb9807264c0f0fed2f367a0254f2dcd18773950e..9b422524ada6abb70ccb388db0728b6de67b47e6 100644
--- a/meta_info/nomad_meta_info/public.nomadmetainfo.json
+++ b/meta_info/nomad_meta_info/public.nomadmetainfo.json
@@ -1671,6 +1671,19 @@
         "configuration_core"
       ],
       "units": "m"
+    }, {
+      "description": "A rotation matrix defining the orientation of each atom. If the rotation matrix only needs to be specified for some atoms, the remaining atoms should set it to the zero matrix (not the identity!)",
+      "dtypeStr": "f",
+      "name": "local_rotations",
+      "repeats": false,
+      "shape": [
+        "number_of_atoms",
+        3,
+        3
+      ],
+      "superNames": [
+        "section_system"
+      ]
     }, {
       "description": "An array of the dimension of number_of_atoms where each atom (identified by the index in the array) is assigned to an atom-centered basis set, for this section_single_configuration_calculation. The actual definition of the atom-centered basis set is in the section_basis_set_atom_centered that is referred to by this metadata.",
       "dtypeStr": "r",