<div dir="ltr"><div>The perturbation is the same for all phonons: 3N atomic displacements, grouped into irreproducible representations of small dimension (makes symmetrization feasible). In some cases it may be more convenient to use symmetry-independent atomic displacements and to use explicitly Acoustic Sum Rule (see option gamma_gamma and code "phcg.x"). The problem of nonzero acoustic phonon frequencies is well known and has no simple solution (other than imposing the ASR) I am aware of<br><br><br></div>Paolo</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Uri Argaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:argamanu@post.bgu.ac.il" target="_blank">argamanu@post.bgu.ac.il</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"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear QE users and developers<br></div>How phonon calculations is done in the acoustic branches at the Gamma point? What is the perturbation? <br></div>I know that in ph.x this frequencies can sometimes differs from zero but the displacements of the atoms is just rigid. I know that the deviation from zero is a matter of convergence.<br></div>Thanks<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Uri Argaman<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Ben-Gurion University<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Israel<br></font></span></div>
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