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<pre>Dear Baroni,<br><br>The kpoint grid I chose is 60*60*60. <br> nk1=60, nk2=60, nk3=60,<br><br>I think that is fine enough. Because the q point grid is just 6*6*6. <br>For metal, the frequencies of the gamma point are alway not zero (some small negative value) . <br>Some may cause the frequencies around the gamma point negative. But even all q points I got are <br>positive, there exit negative frequencies after the matdyn.x calculation. I don't know why.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Pan Hao<br>Tulane University<br><br><br>the kpoint grid you are using may be too coarse<br>dynamical matrices in metals are indeed smooth functions of k, unless you have Kohn anomalies<br>SB<br><br>On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:33 PM, HaoPan wrote:<br><br>><i> Hi, everyone,<br></i>><i> <br></i>><i> On each q point I got, the phone frequencies are positive. But after the Fourier interpolation process, There<br></i>><i> exist negative frequencies. I check the some special q points using ph.x, there are no negative frequencies. I<br></i>><i> know the dynamical matrices for metal are not smooth function of q, but how do I fix it to get the right<br></i>><i> dispersion curves? Thanks a lot.<br></i>><i> <br></i>><i> Sincerely,<br></i>><i> Pan Hao<br></i>><i> Tulane University _______________________________________________<br></i>><i> Pw_forum mailing list<br></i>><i> <a href="http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum">Pw_forum at pwscf.org</a><br></i>><i> <a href="http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum">http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum</a><br></i></pre> </body>
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