<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">No. Even their (amass)  absence in Ali's input file for phonons , I think, can not cause this error, they are read from a database.<br><div> <br>Bests,<br>Eyvaz.<br></div>-------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Prof. Eyvaz Isaev, <br>Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology (IFM), Linkoping University, Sweden <br>Theoretical Physics Department, Moscow State Institute of Steel & Alloys, Russia, <br>isaev@ifm.liu.se, eyvaz_isaev@yahoo.com<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Vasse chis
 <cvasse@hotmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pw_forum@pwscf.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, November 18, 2010 3:34:50 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Pw_forum] Error in phonon calculation<br></font><br>


<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;padding:0px;}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}
--></style>

Dear Ali,<br><br>I've noticed that where you are supposed to write the atomic mass you've written the atomic number, i.e. instead of <br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> La 57 La.UPF<br> Fe 26 Fe.UPF<br>

 O  8  O.UPF<br> As 33 As.UPF<br><br>It should read,<br><br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> La <span class="grigio"><b>138.9055</b></span> La.UPF<br> Fe <span class="grigio"><b>55.845</b></span> Fe.UPF<br>

 O  <span class="grigio"><b>15.9994</b></span>  O.UPF<br> As <span class="grigio"><b>74.9216</b></span> As.UPF<br><br>This correction might help?<br><br>Bests,<br>Vasse<br><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: tavana.ali@gmail.com<br>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:32:37 +0330<br>To: pw_forum@pwscf.org<br>Subject: Re: [Pw_forum] Error in phonon calculation<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br>Yes, I am using 4.2.1<br>These are my input files:<br><br>======================================================<br> &control<br>    calculation='scf'<br>    restart_mode='from_scratch',<br>

    prefix='La',<br>    pseudo_dir = './',<br>    outdir='./tmp'<br> /<br> &system<br>    ibrav=6, celldm(1) =7.616, celldm(3) =2.168, nat=8, ntyp=4,<br>    nspin = 1,<br>    ecutwfc = 24.0, ecutrho = 240.0,<br>

    occupations='smearing', smearing='methfessel-paxton', degauss=0.02<br> /<br> &electrons<br>    conv_thr = 1.0e-10<br>    mixing_beta = 0.7 <br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> La 57 La.UPF<br> Fe 26 Fe.UPF<br>

 O  8  O.UPF<br> As 33 As.UPF<br><br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal<br>Fe       0.250000000   0.750000000   0.000000000<br>Fe       0.750000000   0.250000000   0.000000000<br>As       0.750000000   0.750000000   0.169696326<br>

As       0.250000000   0.250000000   0.830303674<br>O        0.250000000   0.750000000   0.500000000<br>O        0.750000000   0.250000000   0.500000000<br>La       0.750000000   0.750000000   0.657729323<br>La       0.250000000   0.250000000   0.342270677<br>

<br>K_POINTS automatic<br>8 8 4 0 0 0<br>=====================================================<br>phonons at Gamma<br> &inputph<br>  tr2_ph=1.0d-18,<br>  prefix='La',<br>  outdir='./tmp',<br>  fildyn='La.dyn',<br>

  trans=.true.,<br> /<br>0.0 0.0 0.0<br>======================================================<br><br>Bests,<br>Ali<br><br>-- <br>Ali Tavana<br>PhD Candidate,<br>Magnet Research Lab. (MRL)<br>Sharif University of Technology,<br>

Tehran, Iran.<br>Tel: +98 21 6616 4544<br>Fax:+98 21 4446 0799<br>
</div>
<br><span>_______________________________________________
Pw_forum mailing list
Pw_forum@pwscf.org
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum">http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum</a>                                       </span></div></div>
</div><br>







      </body></html>