<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial"><br>Thank you very much for your suggestions.<div>Best sishes.<br><br><br><br><div></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2013-05-21 20:42:04,"Ben Palmer" <benpalmer1983@gmail.com> wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
  
    
  
  
    I think you have to relax the crystal before the phonon
    calculation.  You can relax them in quantum espresso so I don't
    think you'd need to use CASTEP or another code, you can do it with
    PWscf.<br>
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        14px; font-family: arial;">Can you help me? Thank you very much
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        <pre>在 2013-05-21 16:54:34,"Paolo Giannozzi" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it"><paolo.giannozzi@uniud.it></a> 写道:
>On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 10:29 +0800, 李晓川 wrote:
>
>> Why no answers??
>
>maybe because your questions are either too generic or too confused 
>or written in too bad English? and nobody has time to waste answering
>ill-posed questions?
>
>P.
>
>> At 2013-05-18 22:04:41,"李晓川" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:18733462676@163.com"><18733462676@163.com></a> wrote:
>>         Dear all,
>>                 When I calculate the phonon band,there are some
>>         questions ,I want some help fro yours,
>>         The questions are followed as bellow,
>>         1,Before the phonon calculation , must  the lattice
>>         parameters  be relaxed ? Can I use the  crystal parameters
>>         fully relaxed by other software,e.g ,CASTEP code? or the
>>         lattice parameter of experimental?
>>         2.I want to know whether the frequency at gamma is hard to
>>         calculate to be preferable(ideal)?
>>         3.What are the common questions about phonon band calculation?
>>         Finally,I am looking forward to the calculational experience
>>         from you to get the ideal phonon band plot.e,g,the setting of
>>         parameter in code,
>>         Thank you very much ,
>>         best wishes.
>> 
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