<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">> 1-
Does the dimension of Supercell for phonon calculation determine </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">> by nq1,
nq2,and nq3 in the phonon input file?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">The
parameters nq1, nq2,and nq3 is determine the Monkhorst-Pack grid for the DFPT calculation
(phonon calculation) that done in q-space (you calculate the dynamical matrices
explicitly and not the force constants). In DFPT there is no supercell but the
convergence with respect to q-points is similar to the convergence with respect
to the size of the supercell in supercell approaches.<span></span></span></p>
<pre dir="LTR"><span style="color:black">> 2- we know that the lowest three dispersion in the phonon spectra </span></pre><pre dir="LTR"><span style="color:black">> show the three acoustic branches, but how can I find which one is </span></pre><pre dir="LTR"><span style="color:black">> for TA, LA, and ZA?<span></span></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">Phonons do
not have just transverse or longitudinal polarization. There are phonons with
polarization that is neither transverse nor longitudinal (although transverse
and longitudinal polarizations are off-course possible). The most general
polarization is elliptical. In general, the polarization vector is complex and
you can know it from the calculation (after diagonalization of the dynamical
matrices). You have this information in the dynamical matrices files which is
output of the phonon calculation and also you have it in the output of matdyn.x
in the file matdyn.modes. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">We
recently publish a work in which we analyze the polarization of a complex
acoustic phonon in the corner of a hexagonal Brillouin zone:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black"><a href="http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.174305">http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.94.174305</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">You can maybe
find it interesting. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">Uri
Argaman<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">Ben-Gurion
University<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"courier new";color:black">Israel<span></span></span></p></div>