<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction:ltr">I have done phonon calculation in Titanium in both Alpha (non-ideal HCP)
and Omega (hexagonal with 3 atoms per unit cell) phases after relaxation. When
I done the phonon calculation with 2 q-points in each direction (Monkhorst-Pack)
I have got a reasonable phonon spectrum with q2r.x and PlotPhon, but when I
have done a phonon calculation with 3 q-points or 4 q-points in each direction
I have got very large negative frequencies. I am working with degauss=0.01 Ry
or degauss=0.005 Ry because this is the smearing in which the energy converge
to 10^(-5) Ry. The energy is converge to 10^(-6) Ry in respect to all the
numerical parameters (ecutwfc,ecutrho,k-points). When I increase the smearing
to degauss=0.2 Ry I have got reasonable phonon spectrum with wiggling. From
calculations I have done in zero Kelvin (only SCF without phonons) I found the
phase transition in zero Kelvin in reasonable pressure only with degauss<0.01
Ry. To sum up, the cold curve looks reasonable with degauss<0.01 Ry but the
phonon spectrum looks reasonable only with degauss approximately 0.2 Ry. What
is your recommendation? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction:ltr">In addition I would like to ask if the q2r.x and/or PlotPhon apply any ASR
and what is the difference from matdyn.x in the sence that plotphon does not
use *.freq but only *.fc file?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="direction:ltr">I can put homogenous grid in the input file of matdyn.x. Is it causes
any problems with hexagonal lattice?<span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p></div>