Dear Yao,<br>The jumps probably are right. They appear in non-cubic systems. For very very small wavevectors, when w_TO ~ cq (c the speed of light and q the wavavector) , the phonon are coupled with photons and form the excitation known as phonon-polariton (PP). When the PP equations are solved the jumps dissapear. Quantum ESPRESSO only computes the phonons, and the LO-TO splitting is what happens for wavevectors just larger than the region of coupling. This topics is briefly explained in some Solid State Physics books, and fully explained in this article<br>
R. Loudon, Advances in Physics, 2001, Vol. 50, No. 7, 813-864<br><br>There is also a short entry in Wikipedia<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polariton">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polariton</a><br><br>Best regards,<br>
Eduardo <br><div><br></div>Eduardo Menendez Proupin<div>Departamento de Química Fisica Aplicada<br>Facultad de Ciencias<br>Universidad Autónoma de Madrid<br>28049 Madrid, Spain<br></div><div>Phone: +34 91 497 6706</div><div>
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<br></div><br><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px"><br></span><br></div></div><br>--------- Mensaje reenviado ----------<br>From: Yao Yao <<a href="mailto:yao.yao@unsw.edu.au">yao.yao@unsw.edu.au</a>><br>
To: <<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 11:14:39 +1100<br>Subject: [Pw_forum] Weird jump in phonon dispersion at Gamma point<br>Dear All,<br>
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I calculated a orthorhombic cell with alternating AlSb/InAs mono {110} atom<br>
layers with QE 4.3.2. I noticed that my phonon dispersion results were with<br>
steps at Gamma point for some optical branches. Looks you will get different<br>
frequency at Gamma when you approach Gamma from different direction (X->Gamma,<br>
Y->Gamma and Z->Gamma). One picture showing this is uploaded to<br>
<a href="http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/2753/176658145760478725413524194617CoVRtxOq5iqZ20Wa3iK.PNG" target="_blank">http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/2753/176658145760478725413524194617CoVRtxOq5iqZ20Wa3iK.PNG</a><br clear="all">
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