<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Dear Muhammad Adnan,<br><br></div>Firstly, I would like to point out contribution of vibrational modes to free energy would not be significant compared to the uncertainties coming for other parts of calculation. Because you don't have a light element, like H, in your system. <br><br></div>Secondly, It may be quite tricky to calculation vibrational frequencies using DFT+U, particularly for systems like TiO2-1, even with frozen phonon method. Because small displacement of atoms in these systems can cause dramatic change of electronic structure.<br><br></div>Cheers <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Muhammad Adnan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adnansaqlain@gmail.com" target="_blank">adnansaqlain@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Mostafa<div>Thanks for pointing out my mistake in the title of the email.</div><div>Actually, I need to compute DeltaG, DeltaH and DeltaST for the reaction, TiO2 --> TiO2-1 + 1/2O2.</div><div>for this, i need vibrational frequencies of TiO2 and TiO2-1. If relax the surfaces with DFT+U and then use simply DFT calculations for calculating frequencies, what would be the effect on frequencies? </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Mostafa Youssef <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myoussef@mit.edu" target="_blank">myoussef@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">Hi Adnan,<br>
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The effect of DFT+U on the phonon dispersion of materials with soft-modes such as TiO2 is large. Not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. See for example:<br>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567173910004682" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567173910004682</a><br>
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and figure 8 in:<br>
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<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/26/12/122203/" target="_blank">http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/26/12/122203/</a><br>
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If your main goal is to study phonons of TiO2 , I would recommend LDA or PBEsol. But if you insist on using DFT+U , then you can use PHONOPY + PWscf code of Q.E equipped with a *large* supercell of TiO2. This should allow you to calculate phonon dispersion
in frozen phonon approximation with Parlinski et al interpolation. Please follow the instructions on PHONOPY website.
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Mostafa YOussef<br>
MIT<br></font></span>
P.S. Somehow I read the title of your thread as DFT+U cartoons !<br>
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