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</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> The material is silicon. The structure is FCC with two atoms. When I am extracting IFCs, I don't know which R I should use. I mean R = (k-1)*a1 + (h-1)*a2+(l-1)*a3, are the a1, a2, a3 are conventional cell vectors or the primitive cell vectors? If they are lattice vectors, they should be conventional vectors. Then I will miss the force constant between the atom at the origin and the atom at the face center. </div>
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When I use supercell: simple cubic with 8 atoms to build silicon structure, the omega is different at gamma point with the omega from the structure with FCC. And the thing most confuse me is that the point group is different in this structure: 43m. Can anyone explain why this happen please?</div>
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----------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jingjie Zhang </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Graduate student at University of Virginia</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">email: <a href="mailto:jz9wp@virginia.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jz9wp@virginia.edu</a></div>