<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 1:53 AM Shen, Ziheng <<a href="mailto:zshen83@gatech.edu">zshen83@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><div>1) May I ask is there any literature that can prove it’s feasible to neglect the small frequencies? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>no idea, but you can easily verify whether the neglect of almost-zero frequencies has any effect: if you impose the ASR on dynamical matrices, only frequencies of translational modes (and of rotational ones for a molecule) should change, while all other frequencies should stay almost the same.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>
<div>2) I saw you also replied to others that “nat_todo” does not make any sense, but there were still people claimed that they got some useful results. I read from some books (like the one written by D.Sholl) saying that it’s possible to calculate
only frequencies of adsorbates which could save computational resources. Some other ab initial calculation software (like VASP) also have similar functions to calculate adsorbates only. Why is “nat_todo” not working here?
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Presumably it doesn't work because it is not sufficient to just ignore all surface atoms and compute the dynamical matrix restricted to adsorbate atoms only. I guess there are tricks to approximated phonons for an adsorbate on a surface by computing
a "reduced" dynamical matrix for the adsorbate only, in which the information on the adsorbate-surface interactions is "refolded", but I don't know any. This same question has been asked over and over again in the list and nobody (that I remember) ever gave an answer. <br></div><div><br><div>Paolo<br></div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Best regards</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">Ziheng Shen</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">PhD student @ Georgia Institute of Technology</div>
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Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:22 AM Shen, Ziheng <</span><a href="mailto:zshen83@gatech.edu" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">zshen83@gatech.edu</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">>
wrote:</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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When doing frequency analysis for molecules, I expected to get zero or</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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extremely small value for the first six frequencies (i.e. translational &<br>
rotational modes). According to suggestions from those previously posted<br>
problems, I tried to apply more restrict convergence thresholds and ASR. It<br>
seems that ASR help a lot to reduce the number. But I still got frequencies<br>
at ~50 level. Is it possible to completely remove those small values? Or<br>
are those values small enough to be neglected?<br>
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are small enough to be neglected. They can be removed by applying the</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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to the computed dynamical matrix. See the various kinds of ASR in codes</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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and "matdyn", in particular the "zero-dim" one. Note that more</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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ASR than "simple" can be surprising slow.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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My ultimate goal is to perform frequency analysis for adsorbate so that</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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I can both determine transition state structures and apply ZPE corrections.<br>
I tried to use ?nat_todo? to fix the surface atoms and only did calculation<br>
for adsorbate (CH in my case). I got crazy result (~10000 cm-1) when using<br>
large tr2_ph, and got improved results when I decrease the threshold. But I<br>
still got fairly large translational & rotational frequencies like below<br>
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don't think you will obtain anything sensible by fixing the surface atoms</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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making the calculation for the adsorbate atoms only</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">
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freq ( 1) = -25.618746 [THz] = -854.549399 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 2) = -7.333895 [THz] = -244.632409 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 3) = -6.696884 [THz] = -223.383991 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 4) = -6.248674 [THz] = -208.433322 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 5) = -4.947831 [THz] = -165.041892 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 6) = -2.014699 [THz] = -67.203109 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 37) = 0.571458 [THz] = 19.061786 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 38) = 5.754719 [THz] = 191.956759 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 39) = 16.488930 [THz] = 550.011494 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 40) = 16.563150 [THz] = 552.487199 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 41) = 18.255969 [THz] = 608.953585 [cm-1]<br>
freq ( 42) = 56.121326 [THz] = 1872.005923 [cm-1]<br>
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What does negative translational frequencies indicate, is it possible to<br>
eliminate these imaginary numbers (like using more restrict threshold)?<br>
And does my result indicate that my structure is most probably not a<br>
transition state since all the other frequencies are positive?<br>
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I?m attaching the input file of pw.x &ph.x below:<br>
=========================scf input, structure obtained from<br>
neb.x========================<br>
&CONTROL<br>
Calculation='scf',<br>
restart_mode='from_scratch',<br>
prefix = "Ni_ch_ts"<br>
outdir = "./ts/tmp",<br>
pseudo_dir = "./pseudo",<br>
tstress = .true.<br>
verbosity = 'high'<br>
tefield = .true.<br>
dipfield = .true.<br>
/<br>
&SYSTEM<br>
ibrav = 0,<br>
nat = 14,<br>
ntyp = 3,<br>
ecutwfc = 65,<br>
ecutrho = 650,<br>
Occupations='smearing',<br>
smearing='mp',<br>
degauss=0.01,<br>
nspin=2,<br>
starting_magnetization(1)=0.2,<br>
eamp = 0.0<br>
edir = 3<br>
emaxpos = 0.95<br>
eopreg = 0.05<br>
/<br>
&ELECTRONS<br>
electron_maxstep=250,<br>
conv_thr = 1.D-10,<br>
mixing_beta = 0.1,<br>
/<br>
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ATOMIC_SPECIES<br>
Ni 58.69 ni_pbe_v1.4.uspp.F.UPF<br>
C 12 C.pbe-n-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
H 1 H.pbe-kjpaw_psl.1.0.0.UPF<br>
CELL_PARAMETERS { angstrom }<br>
<br>
4.9667177200 0.0000000000 0.0000000000<br>
2.4833588600 4.3013037190 0.0000000000<br>
0.0000000000 0.0000000000 20.000000000<br>
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ATOMIC_POSITIONS { angstrom }<br>
Ni 0.0000000000 0.0000000000 7.9723500000<br>
Ni 1.2416800000 2.1506500000 7.9723500000<br>
Ni 2.4833600000 0.0000000000 7.9723500000<br>
Ni 3.7250400000 2.1506500000 7.9723500000<br>
Ni 2.4833600000 1.4337700000 10.0000000000<br>
Ni 3.7250400000 3.5844200000 10.0000000000<br>
Ni 4.9667200000 1.4337700000 10.0000000000<br>
Ni 6.2084000000 3.5844200000 10.0000000000<br>
Ni 1.2281125212 0.7413038538 12.1124602290<br>
Ni 2.4833613443 2.9495126082 12.0722664849<br>
Ni 3.7386101535 0.7413040204 12.1124604793<br>
Ni 4.9667205066 2.8946406480 11.9560276983<br>
C 2.4833610952 1.4972020489 13.1166864267<br>
H 2.4833559794 3.1940064219 13.5465576823<br>
<br>
K_POINTS { automatic }<br>
6 6 1 0 0 0<br>
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=======================================ph.x<br>
input=======================================<br>
phonons of CH on metal Ni at Gamma<br>
&inputph<br>
tr2_ph=1.0d-16,<br>
prefix='Ni_ch_ts',<br>
epsil=.false.,<br>
amass(1)=58.69,<br>
amass(2)=12.011,<br>
amass(3)=1.0,<br>
alpha_mix(1)=0.1,<br>
outdir='./tmp/',<br>
fildyn='CH.dynG',<br>
nat_todo= 2,<br>
/<br>
0.0 0.0 0.0<br>
13 14<br>
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Thanks in advance for anyone that could give suggestions to me!<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Ziheng Shen<br>
PhD student @ Georgia Institute of Technology</blockquote>
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