<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Dear Suresh,<br></div>I doubt if there is any way you can know if you'll have negative frequency while the calculation is on.<br></div>However you can take note of some of the information in phonon user's guide on how to avoid negative frequency.<br><br></div>Also, you can do a test run with a single q-point splitted among irreps in order to save your time and computational resources.<br></div>Check example on how to split phonon calculation in case you are not familiar with that.<br><br></div>All the best,<br></div><div>Isaiah.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Suresh A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh2007pgp19@gmail.com" target="_blank">suresh2007pgp19@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"><div><div><div>Dear All,<br></div> I am ran phonon calculation for anatase previously and got negative frequencies. I was install QE-5.2.0 in serial mode and took days to finish the calculation in my desktop.<br><br></div>Is there any way to know the negative frequency before the calculation ends? So that the time can be saved.<br></div> Thank You <br><div><div><div><div> <wbr> <br clear="all"><div><div><div><div class="m_-8161109300931356686gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div style="margin-left:40px;text-align:right"> Yours Sincerly,<br><br></div><div style="text-align:right">A.Suresh,<br></div></div><div style="text-align:right">Research Scholar,<br></div><div style="text-align:right">School of Physics,<br></div></div><div style="text-align:right">Madurai Kamaraj University,<br></div></div><div style="text-align:right">Madurai.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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