<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">Hello QE developers and users,<div><br></div><div>Recently, I am trying to calculate phonon dispersion of a 2D material using pw.x, ph.x, q2r.x and matdyn.x but I am getting very strange results.</div>
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</div><div>In my calculations the phonon frequencies reported by ph.x are all real for all non-gamma phonon q-points. But, when I use matdyn.x to calculate phonon frequencies at other points (other than the one for which ph.x calculated frequencies), I get negative (imaginary) frequencies. And these negative frequencies are present for non-gamma points as can be seen in attached frequency file.<br>
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<div><br></div><div>I am having difficulty in understanding these results and hoping someone could help.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank You,</div><div>Ankit Jain</div><div>PhD Candidate</div><div>IIT India</div></div>
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