<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear Users,<br>I am trying to do the phonon dispersion relation for crystalline Silicon along the lines Gamma,K,X,Gamma,L,X,W,L.<br>I'm encountaring the following problem: the shape of the dispersion curves seems very good but there is an evident shift<br>
with respect ot the K points. In particular the shift icreases while moving form left to right (Gamma to L).<br>Such shift is evident in the plot I include in the present email.<br><br>I use the standard procedure to generate phonon dispersion relations.<br>
<br>1) pw.x calculation:<br> &control<br> calculation='scf'<br> restart_mode='from_scratch',<br> pseudo_dir = './',<br> outdir='./cSi',<br> prefix='cSi'<br>
/<br> &system<br> ibrav=2, celldm(1)=10.20, nat=2, ntyp=1,<br> ecutwfc =16.0<br> /<br> &electrons<br> conv_thr = 1.0d-8<br> mixing_beta = 0.7<br> /<br> &ions<br> /<br> ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
Si 28.0855 Si.pz-vbc.UPF<br> ATOMIC_POSITIONS<br> Si 0.00 0.00 0.00<br> Si 0.25 0.25 0.25<br> K_POINTS automatic<br> 8 8 8 0 0 0<br><br>2) ph.x calculation:<br> &inputph<br> tr2_ph=1.0d-14,<br> prefix='cSi',<br>
ldisp=.true.<br> amass(1)=28.0855,<br> outdir='./cSi',<br> fildyn='dyn',<br> nq1=8,<br> nq2=8,<br> nq3=8,<br> /<br><br>3) q2r.x calculation:<br> &input<br> fildyn='dyn',<br>
zasr='simple',<br> flfrc='si.888.fc'<br> /<br><br>4) matdyn.x :<br> &input<br> asr='simple',<br> amass(1)=28.0855,<br> flfrc='si.888.fc'<br> flfrq='si.freq'<br>
q_in_band_form=.true.,<br> /<br> 8<br> 0.000 0.000 0.000 40<br> 0.750 0.750 0.000 10<br> 1.000 0.000 0.000 40<br> 0.000 0.000 0.000 40<br> 0.500 0.500 0.500 20<br> 1.000 0.000 0.000 15<br> 1.000 0.500 0.000 30<br>
0.500 0.500 0.500 1<br><br> After this, the file <a href="http://si.freq.gp">si.freq.gp</a> shows the shift and also using the routine PlotPhon doesn't help.<br> I have cheked the forum for several days and I haven't found anything like this so I'm sure I am<br>
doing something wrong, I hope I can have some usefull hints.<br><br> Thanks very much in advance.<br><br></div>Luigi Bagolini<br></div>Department of Physics <br></div>University of Cagliari, Italy.<br></div>