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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/30/2014 03:20 PM, Kondaiah
Samudrala wrote:<br>
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<pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">I'm wondering if anybody knows how to identified LA-TA modes along high symmetry directions.</font></font>
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If the displacement pattern of the atoms and the q-point are
parallel, the mode is longitudinal; if they are orthogonal the mode
is transverse. When a special q point has a symmetry equivalent copy
that is orthogonal to itself, TA and LA will be degenerate, I'm not
sure this is the only case when this can happen.<br>
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bests<br>
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