<div>Hi,</div><div> </div><div>I am trying to generate phonon dispersion of a complicated structured material.</div><div>I succeeded all the steps until I got the final dispersion relations, but somehow it doesn't look quite correct.</div>
<div>I will explain my problmes with a simpe example. </div><div> </div><div>Assume I am doing the phonon dispersion along Gamma to Z(straight up (0,0,1) from the origin) and Gamma to X(straight right (1,0,0) from the origin) .</div>
<div>The dispersion relation along Gamma to Z produced reasonable 6 different frequency modes (Mine actually had 15 modes), but Gamma to X was the weired one. The problem was that the Gamma to X even had different frequencies at Gamma.</div>
<div> </div><div>To figure out the problem, I first calculated the frequencies at Gamma (0,0,0), and it was (0,0,0,4,4,5) which was the same as the frequencies that I've got in the Gamma to Z. However, when I added one more q-vectors (0.1,0,0) to the frequency generation input file (<a href="http://test.matdyn.in">test.matdyn.in</a>), the frequencies at Gamma changed to (0,0,0,3,4,5) and the next one was (0.1, 0.1, 0.2, 2.9, 4.1, 5.1). They seemed to have continuousness between these two, but adding another q-vector caused even the frequencies at Gamma being changed, and it didn't look so reasonable.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So basically my problem is that I have generated two phonon dispersion relation: Gamma to Z and Gamma to X, but the optical mode frequencies at Gamma in the two plots are different.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I wonder if there's any parameter that I have to adjust to force them to be consistent or any idea that I can try.</div><div>I hope this explains my problem well, so I can get any advice.</div><div><br></div><div>
Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Kris</div>