<div>Hi all,</div><div> </div><div>I am doing the phonon dispersion calculation of bismuth telluride whose structure is rhombohedron with 5 basis. Until now, I have kept getting incorrect frequencies: negative or different optical frequencies near gamma point according to the propagation direction.</div>
<div> </div><div>After I got an advise from Dr. Lorenzo about a possible convergence problem, I've set the lattice parameters based on the convergence test (celldm(1), celldm(4), conv_thr, ATOMIC_POSITIONS) and used 'tr2_ph=1.0d-14' in ph.x calculation. (with tr2_ph=1.0d-16, it didn't converge after 100 iterations) Here below are the scf inputs that I used. I wonder if I missed anything which is critical or used a wrong value for the calculation.</div>
<div> </div><div>Please give any suggestion you can think of.</div><div> </div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>&system</div><div> ibrav=5, celldm(1)=17.521, celldm(4)=0.8451,</div>
<div> nat=5, ntyp=2, ecutwfc=100.0</div><div>/</div><div>&electrons</div><div> conv_thr = 1.0d-12</div><div> mixing_beta = 0.7</div><div>/</div><div> </div><div>ATOMIC_SPECIES</div><div>Bi .... mass pseudopotential</div>
<div>Te ...</div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS alat</div><div>....</div><div>....</div><div>....</div><div>....</div><div>....</div><div>K_POINTS automatic</div><div>4 4 4 1 1 1</div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div> </div><div>Thank you.</div><div> </div><div>Best,</div>