<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Sir,<br></div>Thank you very much for your kind help.<br><br><br>
Khalid Ibne Masood<br>
M.Sc student<br>
BUET<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:04 PM, David Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidfoster751@yahoo.com" target="_blank">davidfoster751@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have encountered such a problem for my studies. Taking care of following points may help you:<br>
<br>
1- see the stress and pressure for your crystal. its force should be very low.<br>
2- use large cutoff for wfn and rho, even much larger than the converged values against energy/atom<br>
or force/atom (1mRy/atom).<br>
3- use very dense k-point grid in scf<br>
4- use very low convergence threshold for scf (10^(-10) for example), and for phonon (10^(-14))<br>
5- if after dynmat.x, the acoustic phonons are near to 1cm-1, it is good.<br>
6- taking care of spin-magnetization.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
David Foster<br>
<br>
Ph.D. Student of Chemistry<br>
<br>
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On Sat, 8/8/15, Khalid Ibne Masood Khalid <<a href="mailto:kimu206@gmail.com">kimu206@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
Subject: [Pw_forum] keep getting negative frequencies in phonon calculation<br>
To: "PWSCF Forum" <<a href="mailto:pw_forum@pwscf.org">pw_forum@pwscf.org</a>><br>
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2015, 12:02 AM<br>
<br>
Dear<br>
Researchers,<br>
I think this is an old problem, but I require your<br>
advice about how to solve this problem. I am trying to<br>
calculate the phonon dispersion curve of a 2D insulator<br>
material, and followed example 02 of phonon program. In the<br>
ph.x input file I have used:<br>
<br>
tr2_ph=1.0d-12,<br>
ldisp=.true.,<br>
nq1=2, nq2=2, nq3=1<br>
<br>
[increasing nq1 and nq2 will be more complicated]<br>
<br>
I have tried almost all types of asr, zero-dim,<br>
crystal and simple, but yet I am getting negative<br>
frequencies in the phonon dispersion curve.<br>
<br>
Now Sir, what should I do to correct this problem.<br>
Should ldisp = .false. solve the problem?<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Khalid Ibne Masood<br>
M.Sc student<br>
BUET<br>
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