<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Dielectric constant in metals is “infinite”. There’s no static response to a static electric field (you would generate an electric current).</div><div>As such, any long-range correction to the force-constants is not needed in metals, if that is the reason why you were trying to compute these quantities.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Lorenzo</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Il giorno 24 mag 2024, alle ore 22:20, Md. Jahid Hasan Sagor <md.sagor@maine.edu> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Dear QE Experts,</div><div><br></div><div>I am trying to calculate second order force constants for GaAs. I successfully ran pw.x, but after that when I ran ph.x, I got the following error. <br></div><div><br></div><div><b>ask # 0 from phq_readin : error # 1 no electric. field with metals</b></div><div><br></div><div>Input files are attached here. I have used epsil = .true. for phonon calculation to calculate born charge and dielectric constant. <br></div><div>Would you please give some solutions for this?</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Md Jahid Hasan</div><div>Mechanical Engg</div><div>PhD Student</div><div>University of Maine<br></div><div><br></div></div>
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