<div>Dear Baoling,</div> <div>I am not an experienced user,</div> <div>but I want to comment a little on your case.</div> <div> </div> <div>In these two position configurations, the energy difference is not as small as you think, I guess, sth like 90 meV. (why to compare in percentages??) so 0.792 is not the global minimum.</div> <div>If I were you, I would find my own equilibrium position configuration first. At least you have a good initial guess, 0.7905, which is found by using the same pseudopotential. You can search around it and find yours - which i guess would not be so far away from 0.7905. Then at your result, make a "converged" phonon calculation, using several asr schemes if you want, and later you can post your mail to the group with the title 'The choice of ASR'. But for now, I am not sure that this is your problem.</div> <div> </div> <div>Again, you dont have to take this seriously, I am just a newbie.</div> <div>Emine
Kucukbenli<BR><BR><B><I>naivebamboo Huang <naivebamboo@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear Matteo,<BR>Thanks very much. Yes, they are fractional coordinates of one Te atom <BR>(Te1 atom), that is, atomic position in the unit cell. I am sorry for the <BR>confusion. What I mean is that the energies of the two positions seems to <BR>change little comparing to their position change. The lattice constant is <BR>10.45 angstrom, and so the difference of the position is not small. I think <BR>this is due to the weak Te1-Te1 interaction (van der Waals interaction). I <BR>tried to relax the structure use vc-relaxation, but meet an error during the <BR>optimization. I am trying to work it out now. The configure with x=0.7905 is <BR>the relaxed structure that other people get use the same pseudopotential. <BR>The frequencies I got from PWscf are attached.<BR>You can see mode
4 of the two configures are much different. Also, if <BR>ASR changes from 'simple' to 'crystal', 10% difference appears (for all the <BR>modes). Is this acceptable? Since the frequencies are all positive, I just <BR>guess they are at least local minimal configures. The configure with <BR>x=0.792, though energy is higher, reproduces the measured modes best. I <BR>don't know which result I should trust.<BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR>Baoling<BR><BR>x=0.7905 total energy =-382.4400695 Ry<BR>x=0.792 total energy =-382.43346308 Ry (however, x=0.792 reproduces <BR>the measured bond lengths of Te-Bi, Te-Te )<BR><BR>x=0.7905 ( ASR='crystal')<BR># mode [cm-1] [THz] IR<BR>1 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>2 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>3 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>4 11.81 0.3541 0.0000<BR>5 79.89 2.3950 0.0000<BR>6 79.89 2.3950 0.0000<BR>7 84.52 2.5339 0.0000<BR>8 84.52 2.5339 0.0000<BR>9 101.25 3.0353 0.0000<BR>10 128.73 3.8593 0.0000<BR>11 142.63 4.2760 0.0000<BR>12 150.50 4.5118 0.0000<BR>13 150.50 4.5118
0.0000<BR>14 153.94 4.6148 0.0000<BR>15 153.94 4.6148 0.0000<BR><BR>x=0.792 (ASR='crystal')<BR># mode [cm-1] [THz] IR<BR>1 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>2 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>3 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>4 36.49 1.0941 0.0000<BR>5 75.48 2.2627 0.0000<BR>6 75.48 2.2627 0.0000<BR>7 83.00 2.4884 0.0000<BR>8 83.00 2.4884 0.0000<BR>9 100.00 2.9978 0.0000<BR>10 111.66 3.3476 0.0000<BR>11 138.25 4.1446 0.0000<BR>12 141.25 4.2346 0.0000<BR>13 141.25 4.2346 0.0000<BR>14 167.48 5.0210 0.0000<BR>15 167.48 5.0210 0.0000<BR><BR>x=0.792 (ASR='simple')<BR># mode [cm-1] [THz] IR<BR>1 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>2 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>3 0.00 0.0000 0.0000<BR>4 53.43 1.6017 0.0000<BR>5 56.12 1.6825 0.0000<BR>6 56.12 1.6825 0.0000<BR>7 69.99 2.0982 0.0000<BR>8 69.99 2.0982 0.0000<BR>9 98.14 2.9421 0.0000<BR>10 98.14 2.9421 0.0000<BR>11 113.40 3.3997 0.0000<BR>12 113.40 3.3997 0.0000<BR>13 114.78 3.4411 0.0000<BR>14 131.36 3.9381 0.0000<BR>15 145.97 4.3760 0.0000</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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