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Dear all,</div>
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I have a naive question (only to make sure) regarding the format of the phonon eigenvector at a certain point q, produced in the .eig or (matdyn.modes) file(s).</div>
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Let us take a phonon wave vector:</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">q = ( 0.000000041 -0.288465197 0.000000000 )</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> freq ( 1) = 2.149626 [THz] = 71.703791 [cm-1]</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( -0.000000 0.000000 -0.000000 0.000000 -0.010327 0.000000 )</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( -0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -0.554305 0.000000 )</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( -0.000000 0.000000 -0.257860 0.000000 0.210723 0.000000 )</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( -0.000000 0.000000 -0.213878 0.000000 -0.435522 0.000000 )</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( 0.000000 0.000000 0.257860 0.000000 0.210723 0.000000 )</span></div>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> ( 0.000000 0.000000 0.213878 0.000000 -0.435522 0.000000 )</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Does the 1st column represent the real part of the displacement vector along the x direction, the 4th column is its imaginary part,
the 2nd column is the real part of the y component, and the 5th column is its imaginary part, and so on?<br>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><span>Thanks</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><span>Dr. Elie Moujaes</span></span></span></div>
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