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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>
P.S. Somehow I read the title of your thread as DFT+U cartoons !<br>
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