<div dir="ltr">Dear QE developers and users,<div><br></div><div>I am using ph.x, q2r.x, and matdyn.x to calculate a phonon dispersion of a one-dimensional polymer (I am using vacuum in other two directions).</div><div>I am using a phonon qgrid of 1*1*6 for the calculation of dispersion from ph.x. Later using q2r.x and matdyn.x, I am calculation phonon dispersion for 1*1*20 phonon qgrid. </div>
<div><br></div><div>My problem is that for the phonon qgrid of 1*1*6, I get non-negative frequencies at all of the irreducible phonon q points, but when I use matdyn.x to calculate phonon frequencies on 1*1*20, some of my acoustic modes frequencies are negative for non-gamma points!</div>
<div>For instance, if my irreducible qpoints are 0.0, 0.1,0.3,0.5 (let say), then I get non-negative frequencies from ph.x for all four of these q points (which is right), but when I use matdyn.x to intepolate the frequencies, I get negative frequencies for lowest frequency acoustic phonons with q-points less than 0.1. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am using NORMCONS PP, electron k-grid = 1*1*12, with ecutwfc = 100 Ry, conv_thr=1.0d-12, tr2_ph = 1.0d-14, zasr/asr='one-dim' </div><div><br></div><div>I am attaching my <a href="http://pw.in">pw.in</a>, <a href="http://ph.in">ph.in</a>, <a href="http://q2r.in">q2r.in</a> and <a href="http://matdyn.in">matdyn.in</a> files with this mail.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ankit Jain</div><div>IIT Indore,</div><div>India</div><div><br></div></div>