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    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
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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:
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>> Why no answers??
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>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?
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>P.
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>> 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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