<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear PWusers, <br><br></div>I am trying to perform phonon calculation to thin layer silicon structure. <br></div>When I do the single layer structure, the results look fine. <br><br></div>
Now I follow the same procedure and performed phonon calculation for double layer silicon. The structure is a literature reported stable structure and have no negative frequencies. I also performed vc-relax before the scf calculation. However, I find that the dielectric constant is negative. See below. <br>
<br> thresh= 0.345E-09 alpha_mix = 0.700 |ddv_scf|^2 = 0.924E-18<br><br> End of electric fields calculation<br><br> Dielectric constant in cartesian axis <br><br> ( 519.702858197 -231.772865836 0.075753747 )<br>
( -231.772894836 802.730592803 -0.157103615 )<br> ( 0.075591420 -0.156819902 1.555242942 )<br><br><br></div><div>I am wondering what could be the possible reason for this. <br>
</div><div>Below is my SCF file. The phonon file and vc-relax files are also attached. <br><br> &control<br> calculation='scf'<br> restart_mode='from_scratch',<br> !pseudo_dir='directory where pseudopotentials are stored/',<br>
!outdir='directory where large files are written/'<br> pseudo_dir='./',<br> outdir='./tmp'<br> prefix='PH',<br> /<br> &system <br> ibrav=4, celldm(1)=7.18944, celldm(3)=5, nat=4, ntyp=1,<br>
ecutwfc =60.0<br> /<br> &electrons<br> conv_thr = 1.0d-8<br> mixing_beta = 0.7<br>/<br>&IONS<br> bfgs_ndim = 1,<br> !upscale = 100.D0,<br> pot_extrapolation = "second_order",<br>
wfc_extrapolation = "second_order",<br> /<br>ATOMIC_SPECIES<br> Si 28.0855 Si.pz-vbc.UPF<br>ATOMIC_POSITIONS<br>Si 0 0 0.049791982<br>Si 0 0.569680156 0.217896315<br>Si 0 0.569376936 0.864095041<br>
Si 0.493360901 0.284531641 1.032253949<br>K_POINTS automatic<br> 32 32 1 0 0 0<br> <br></div></div>