Dear all,<br> Thank you xirainbow and Michael J. Mehlfor for your reply & suggestion .<br> I was trying to calculate longitudinal phonon dispersion of Zr along [111] direction. <br>I wanted to validate my calculation with experimental results for bcc-Zr (not hcp) given in the paper :Phy.Rev.B,vol-29,page 1575-1587(1984). <br>
But I am getting negative frequencies near q=2/3(1 1 1) and the over all appearance of the curve is different from the experimental one. I optimized the system w.r.t ecutwf, ecutrho , k-point sampling , volume ,degauss, conv_thr. I have also tried with different q-point sampling in <a href="http://ph.in">ph.in</a> file (like 4 4 4, 8 8 8) with tr2_ph=1.0d-12.<br>
My questions are :<br>1. Is DFTP suitable for studying particular phonon mode like in Zr ??<br>2. If yes then how to make my calculations efficient ?? <br>3. If not then any suggestion of other methods ??<br> Any one can please help me.<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>P. S. Ghosh<br>B.A.R.C.<br>INDIA <br>