<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hello all!</span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I have some troubles with phonons in two dimensional hexagonal Boron Nitride, and I am looking for some hints: </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1) the out-of-plane acoustic branch at low wave vector is not quadratic, istead is linear. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">At a first glance, I thought this could be related to some residual forces, but I performed two successive vc-relax calculations</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and they are 0.000000 according to the output. There is some residual pressure on z axis, but I suppouse it is related to the constrain</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on the c primitive vector (through the flag cell_dofree = '2Dxy' ). </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I doubt that this is due to some periodic images interaction, because the cell is 20 A in the direction perpendicular to the layer plane.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I also increased the q-point mesh from 6x6x1 up to 10x10x1 in the ph.x input. In the latter case the out-of-plane acoustic branch turns out </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to have a parabolic-like behaviour around Gamma but with opposite concavity.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">2) Since I don't include the flag epsil='true' there is no LO-TO splitting, but the slope of the LO branch is vanishing at Gamma</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and it shouldn't. Any chance that some option exists to obtain correct behaviour of otpical phonons in 2D for vanishing wave vector? </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I'm using quantum espersso v6.0.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Find attached below the input file for vc-relax and phonons. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Any suggestion will be appreciated,</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">thank you!</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Francesco Delodovici, Phd Student</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Università degli studi di Milano</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">############ VC RELAX ###################</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> &CONTROL</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div> title = 'hbn' ,</div><div> calculation = 'vc-relax' ,</div><div> restart_mode = 'from_scratch' ,</div><div> outdir = '/localdisk1/delodovici/' ,</div><div> pseudo_dir = '~/Pseudop/' ,</div><div> prefix = 'hbn' ,</div><div> forc_conv_thr = 1D-8 ,</div><div> etot_conv_thr = 1D-8 ,</div><div> wf_collect = .false. ,</div><div> /</div><div> &SYSTEM</div><div> ibrav = 4 ,</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> celldm(1) = 4.695926777902829 ,</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> celldm(3) = 8.048362859199854 ,</div><div> nat = 2 ,</div><div> ntyp = 2 ,</div><div> ecutwfc = 50 ,</div><div> ecutrho = 200 ,</div><div> occupations = 'smearing' ,</div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> smearing = 'gaussian' ,</div><div> degauss = 2e-4 ,</div><div> nspin = 1 ,</div><div>/</div><div> &ELECTRONS</div><div> conv_thr = 1.0d-9</div><div> /</div><div> &IONS</div><div> ion_dynamics = 'bfgs'</div><div> /</div><div> &CELL</div><div> cell_dynamics = 'bfgs'</div><div> cell_dofree = '2Dxy'</div><div> /</div><div>ATOMIC_SPECIES</div><div>N 14.007 N.pz-rrkjus.UPF</div><div>B 10.810 B.pz-n-rrkjus_psl.0.1.UPF </div><div><br /></div><div>ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal</div><div>B 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000</div><div>N 0.333333 0.666666 0.000000</div><div><br /></div><div>K_POINTS automatic</div><div>20 20 1 0 0 0</div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">##############################<wbr></wbr>##################</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">############### PHONONS ##################</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><div><br /></div><div>phonons of hBN</div><div> &inputph</div><div> tr2_ph=1.0d-14,</div><div> prefix='hbn',</div><div> amass(1)=14.007,</div><div> amass(2)=10.810,</div><div> outdir='/localdisk1/delodovici<wbr></wbr>',</div><div> fildyn='phonons.dyn',</div><div> ldisp=.true.,</div><div> nq1=10,</div><div> nq2=10,</div><div> nq3=1,</div><div>/</div></div>