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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p> I am experimenting with a large 120 atom amorphous Al2O3 cell. I wish to calculate the electronic and ionic contributions to the dielectric constant, I am currently running the ground state calculations, however I am not sure what to expect with the
phonon calculations. According to an experimental paper (<a href="http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.341367" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk42019" previewremoved="true">http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.341367</a>), one should expect two broad modes,
and an LO/TO splitting, I then would use the Lyddane-Sachs-Teller relation to estimate the ionic contribution using these two modes. What can I expect in terms of the mode analysis (how many modes will the code find)? The paper I am basing my study on as a
starting point is (<a href="http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.054108" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk23839" previewremoved="true">http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.054108</a>) which suggests this is entirely possible.</p>
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<p>Kindest regards,</p>
<p>Louis Fry,</p>
<p>PhD student, University of Leeds, IMP</p>
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