[Pw_forum] non-cubic dielectric tensor in a cubic crystal.

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Mostafa Youssef <myoussef at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> I also get a non-cubic dielectric tensor for cubic semiconductors when I
> allow the computation of the nonanalytic terms by specifying a q-vector and
> q is not equal 0.  But I do not fully understand what is going on here.  I
> think (but not very sure) if you do not specify q then you actually
> calculate the nonanalytic terms for q->0
>

you actually calculate only the "analytic" terms for q=0. There are no
nonanalytic terms if no direction for q is specified.


> and then you recover the correct cubic tensor with zone center phonons
> contribution.
>
> On the other hand calculating epsilon_0 by applying electric field and
> relaxing the ions yields a reasonable cubic dielectric tensor.
>
> I hope somebody can help in clarifying this.
>

not sure I have clarified anything; I just added a check so that if someone
tries to compute the phonon contribution to the the dielectric tensor with
TO-LO splitting on, a warning message is printed.

Paolo



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