Dear All:<div><br></div><div>I used ph.x to calculate the phonon frequencies at GAMMA point of Ta4Pd3Te16 (its structure can be found at http://www.springermaterials.com). I had relaxed the structure so that all forces was little than 1mRy/bohr. </div><div><br></div><div>The first time I used parameters :</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>conv_thr=1.0d-7 </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ecutwfc=40</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ecutrho=200</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div>in self consistent calculation and parameters:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tr2_ph=1.0d-12, <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ldiag = .true.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>start_irr = 1</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>last_irr = 33</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>/</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0 0 0</div><div>in phonon calculations. Note that irrep1-irrep22 are Ag and irrep23-irrep33 are Bg (which are raman active), the rest irreducible representations are not raman active. I got a reasonable results which can be comparable with experiment but with an exception that the lowest frequency was imaginary:</div><div><div> freq ( 1 - 1) = -28.6 [cm-1] --> A_g R </div><div> freq ( 38 - 38) = 30.0 [cm-1] --> A_g
R </div><div> freq ( 39 - 39) = 36.3 [cm-1] --> B_g R </div></div><div> ...</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore I enhanced my precision as:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>conv_thr=1.0d-8 </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ecutwfc=40</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ecutrho=300</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>------------------</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>tr2_ph=1.0d-14, <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ldiag = .true.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>start_irr = 1</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>last_irr = 33</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>...</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>/</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>0 0 0</div><span>I expected to get a better result, but actually I got a worse one:</span></div><div><span><div> freq ( 1 - 1) = -504.0 [cm-1] --> A_g R </div><div> freq ( 2 - 2) = -333.9 [cm-1] --> A_g R </div><div> freq ( 3 - 3) = -251.0 [cm-1] --> A_g &nbs
p; R </div><div> freq ( 4 - 4) = -140.0 [cm-1] --> A_g R </div><div> freq ( 41 - 41) = 44.2 [cm-1] --> A_g R </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>......</div><div><br></div><div>I completely can't understand why. Can anybody help me ?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div>--<br><span style="font-size: medium;">Zhida Song</span><br style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Institute of Physics</span><br style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chinese Academy of Sciences</span><br style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100190, China</span></span></div><br><br><br>