<div dir="ltr"><div>Apparently the largest discrepancies come from low-energy modes, in particular zero-frequency acoustic modes (those with "negative" frequencies that become zero when acoustic sum rule is applied). Even minor changes in the way exchange-correlation is computed may lead to surprisingly large but unphysical differences for those modes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Paolo<br></div><div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 7:54 PM Unmesh Mondal <<a href="mailto:unmesh.mondal@students.iiserpune.ac.in">unmesh.mondal@students.iiserpune.ac.in</a>> wrote:<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 dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><div>I intend to calculate the vibrational modes of gas phase HCOOH (formic acid) molecule.</div><div> <br></div><div>The "ph.x" vibrational frequencies (in cm-1) of the system for the two versions of quantum espresso (6.5 and 6.4 : with same compilers) are: </div><div> (QE 6.5) (QE 6.4)</div><div> 1 -207.654081 -207.686563 <br> 2 -63.775769 -61.840758 <br> 3 -55.090067 -57.158594 <br> 4 -15.183543 -15.903109 <br> 5 20.311666 21.386665 <br> 6 129.683418 129.214185 <br> 7 615.352300 615.209434 <br> 8 676.597853 676.547298 <br> 9 999.285772 999.331118 <br> 10 1071.840671 1071.779138 <br> 11 1253.496419 1253.514267 <br> 12 1350.618940 1350.925730 <br> 13 1735.698557 1735.582574 <br> 14 2965.285270 2965.885980 <br> 15 3665.961548 3665.948232 <br></div><div><br></div><div>The maximum difference in any frequency for the two versions is about 2 cm-1. My question: </div><div> Is the difference of 2 cm-1 within the error limit of ph.x calculations? What is the accuracy we expect in reporting the vibrational frequency (via ph.x)?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards and Thanks</div><div>Unmesh Mondal</div><div>IISER Pune, India</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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