Dear all,<br><br>I've tested the supercell approach using ph.x to calculate the vibrational frequency of a benzene molecule. It works indeed. And I got 36(12*3) eigen values.<br><br>The thing I cannot understand is, there're 12 negative frequencies existing. I know 3 of them are purely translational modes and another 3 are rotational ones. But what about the rest 6? I'm a little confused and hopefully someone can help.
<br><br>The eigenvals are pasted below and thanks in advance!<br><br clear="all">(the result may not be accurate due to a only-15Ry ecut I used, but it should not give out qualitative different result)<br> omega( 1) = -
75.772470 [THz] = -2527.514330 [cm-1]<br> omega( 2) = -70.357356 [THz] = -2346.884371 [cm-1]<br> omega( 3) = -69.734785 [THz] = -2326.117499 [cm-1]<br> omega( 4) = -60.745067 [THz] = -2026.250783
[cm-1]<br> omega( 5) = -60.633397 [THz] = -2022.525849 [cm-1]<br> omega( 6) = -54.624392 [THz] = -1822.085685 [cm-1]<br> omega( 7) = -53.629434 [THz] = -1788.897259 [cm-1]<br> omega( 8) = -
49.221716 [THz] = -1641.870640 [cm-1]<br> omega( 9) = -48.767076 [THz] = -1626.705379 [cm-1]<br> omega(10) = -45.544107 [THz] = -1519.197979 [cm-1]<br> omega(11) = -40.582868 [THz] = -1353.707753
[cm-1]<br> omega(12) = -29.501111 [THz] = -984.057687 [cm-1]<br> omega(13) = 17.297930 [THz] = 577.000669 [cm-1]<br> omega(14) = 18.430268 [THz] = 614.771652 [cm-1]<br> omega(15) =
18.978064 [THz] = 633.044293 [cm-1]<br> omega(16) = 21.573348 [THz] = 719.614207 [cm-1]<br> omega(17) = 21.661957 [THz] = 722.569926 [cm-1]<br> omega(18) = 22.212850 [THz] = 740.945851
[cm-1]<br> omega(19) = 26.603080 [THz] = 887.389115 [cm-1]<br> omega(20) = 27.163155 [THz] = 906.071359 [cm-1]<br> omega(21) = 28.988845 [THz] = 966.970217 [cm-1]<br> omega(22) =
29.897145 [THz] = 997.268046 [cm-1]<br> omega(23) = 30.039795 [THz] = 1002.026353 [cm-1]<br> omega(24) = 34.221037 [THz] = 1141.498514 [cm-1]<br> omega(25) = 35.556617 [THz] = 1186.048959
[cm-1]<br> omega(26) = 41.365733 [THz] = 1379.821484 [cm-1]<br> omega(27) = 48.259770 [THz] = 1609.783366 [cm-1]<br> omega(28) = 51.789502 [THz] = 1727.523303 [cm-1]<br> omega(29) =
51.871548 [THz] = 1730.260091 [cm-1]<br> omega(30) = 55.413486 [THz] = 1848.407220 [cm-1]<br> omega(31) = 85.179130 [THz] = 2841.288830 [cm-1]<br> omega(32) = 87.544947 [THz] = 2920.204497
[cm-1]<br> omega(33) = 88.051107 [THz] = 2937.088312 [cm-1]<br> omega(34) = 89.398003 [THz] = 2982.016222 [cm-1]<br> omega(35) = 93.664201 [THz] = 3124.322195 [cm-1]<br> omega(36) =
95.571010 [THz] = 3187.926929 [cm-1]<br>-- <br>Jin Zhang<br>Dep. of Physics,<br>Peking Univ.