[Pw_forum] question of matdyn.x and dynmat.x

REI.BOND yuzuman19 at livedoor.com
Tue Jul 2 13:23:24 CEST 2013


Dear all,

I have a question of matdyn.x and dynmat.x.
I have calculated phonon dispersion of the materials of a one-dimensional
system(Silicon nano wire).
Then, the problem occurred.
First, I estimated the frequency of gamma point using dynmat.x.(result is
following)
As for the result, frequencies also including rotation mode was set to 0.

Next, phonon dispersion of gamma point to X point was calculated using
matdyn.x (same structure). Much negative frequencies appeared.
Especially an amusing point is that negative frequency appeared of gamma
point...
Is it strange!?!?!?!
Negative frequency at gamma point did not appear in dynmat.x .
But,negative frequency at gamma point appeared in matdyn.x .

Please help me....

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Appendix

In PHonon's example directory ,

   Note that the calculation is not intended to be a good one,
   but just a test one! Rotation modes have negative frequencies.
   This is a consequence of the supercell approach. Translational
   modes have zero frequency because the translational Acoustic Sum
   Rule (ASR) is imposed by construction in the calculation
   (option asr=.true.)

  calculate the IR cross section (input=sih4.dyn.in, output=sih4.dyn.out).
   By applying the appropriate ASR for molecules (option asr='zero-dim')
   the rotational modes are forced to have zero frequency as well.

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phonons of sinw100
 &inputph
  tr2_ph=1.0d-14,
  prefix='100',
  ldisp=.true.,
  nq1=4, nq2=1, nq3=1
  amass(1)=28.08,
  amass(2)=1.00782503207,
  epsil = .true.,
  outdir='./',
  fildyn='100.dyn',
 /

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dynmat::input

 &input fildyn='100.dynG', asr='one-dim' , axis=1 /

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matdyn::input

&input
    asr='one-dim',  amass(1)=28.08,amass(2)=1.0078
    flfrc='100-411.fc' , flfrq='100.freq411', q_in_band_form=.true.
/
2
0.0 0.0 0.0 30
0.5 0.0 0.0 1

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dynmat::out

     Program DYNMAT v.5.0.2 starts on  2Jul2013 at 19:42:14

     This program is part of the open-source Quantum ESPRESSO suite
     for quantum simulation of materials; please cite
         "P. Giannozzi et al., J. Phys.:Condens. Matter 21 395502 (2009);
          URL http://www.quantum-espresso.org",
     in publications or presentations arising from this work. More details
at
     http://www.quantum-espresso.org/quote.php

     Parallel version (MPI), running on     1 processors

     Reading Dynamical Matrix from file 110.dyn1
     ...Force constants read
     ...epsilon and Z* read
asr rotation axis in 1D system=    3
     Acoustic Sum Rule: || Z*(ASR) - Z*(orig)|| =    0.353670E-02
     Acoustic Sum Rule: ||dyn(ASR) - dyn(orig)||=    0.331795E-02
     A direction for q was not specified:TO-LO splitting will be absent

     Polarizability (A^3 units)
     multiply by 0.909144 for Clausius-Mossotti correction
        20.583151    0.000195    0.161462
         0.000194   22.656585   -0.000011
         0.161579   -0.000011   84.467922

     IR activities are in (D/A)^2/amu units

# mode   [cm-1]    [THz]      IR
    1      0.00    0.0000    0.0000
    2      0.00    0.0000    0.0000
    3      0.00    0.0000    0.0000
    4      0.00    0.0000    0.0000
    5     75.71    2.2699    0.0000
    6    104.63    3.1368    0.0000
    7    140.61    4.2154    0.0000
    8    160.44    4.8100    1.9984
    9    170.20    5.1025    0.0000
   10    283.75    8.5066    0.1075
   11    316.01    9.4738    0.0000
   12    347.15   10.4073    0.0072 ....

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matdyn::output

 &plot nbnd=  63, nks=  31 /
            0.000000  0.000000  0.000000
   -5.7011   -3.1921   -3.1542   -3.0478   82.8607   90.4273
   92.7694  106.4356  107.0790  118.9001  135.9974  160.8521
  165.8887  166.7422  229.7942  306.6637  350.5737  350.9385

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scf :input
 &control
    calculation='scf'
    restart_mode='restart',
    prefix='100',
    pseudo_dir = './',
    outdir='./'
    tprnfor = .true.
    tstress = .true.
 /
 &system
    ibrav=8,
    celldm(1) = 9.633168021 ,
    celldm(2) =3.480290431 ,
    celldm(3) =3.480290431 ,
!    celldm(3) = 3.472149983 ,
    nat=  21,
    ntyp= 2,
    ecutwfc =80.0,
 /
 &electrons
    diagonalization = 'cg'
    conv_thr =  1.0d-12
    mixing_beta = 0.2
    electron_maxstep = 10000
 /
ATOMIC_SPECIES
   Si 28.086     Si.pz-vbc.UPF
   H 1.00782503207 H.pz-vbc.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS bohr
Si       2.382690171   4.187834839   4.187834839
Si       4.789323462   1.598594247   6.780982341
Si       7.195976312   4.187862386   9.374088196
Si       4.789323462   6.780982341   1.598594247
Si       7.195976312   9.374088196   4.187862386
Si      -0.027227025   6.780971845   6.780971845
Si       2.382685709   9.374110350   9.374110350
Si       4.789318805  11.963353533   6.780967109
Si       4.789318805   6.780967109  11.963353533
H        0.571328310   2.642458237   2.642458237
H        3.058789041  -0.053654953   8.291479535
H        6.519825955  -0.053761794   5.270564949
H        9.007284822   2.642456259  10.919495629
H        3.058789041   8.291479535  -0.053654953
H        6.519825955   5.270564949  -0.053761794
H        9.007284822  10.919495629   2.642456259
H        0.571308353  10.919478070  10.919478070
H        6.519816947  13.615714892   8.291383841
H        3.058781632  13.615593424   5.270464332
H        6.519816947   8.291383841  13.615714892
H        3.058781632   5.270464332  13.615593424
K_POINTS AUTOMATIC
16 1 1 0 0 0

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scf:output

     Total force =     0.000172     Total SCF correction =     0.000000
         total   stress  (Ry/bohr**3)                   (kbar)     P=
-0.20
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