[Pw_forum] phonon at Gamma point
lan haiping
lanhaiping at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 14:38:06 CEST 2006
Dear All,
I also have calculated gamma phonon frequencies of anatase TiO2 .
I run ph.x caculation after relaxing the structure, but 9 of 18 frequencies
are minus.
Would you please give me some hints and help?
input settings are below, thank you in advance !
*phonons of TiO2 at Gamma
&inputph
tr2_ph=1.0d-14,
recover=.true.,
epsil=.true.,
prefix='tio2',
fildyn='TiO2-gamma.dyn',
outdir='/home/haiping/tmp/'
/
0.0 0.0 0.0*
**
*Relaxing calculation input :*
*&CONTROL
title = 'TiO2' ,
calculation = 'relax',
verbosity = 'default',
tprnfor = .true.,
outdir = '/home/haiping/tmp/',
prefix = 'tio2',
disk_io = 'default',
nstep = 200,
pseudo_dir = '/home/haiping/espresso/pseudo/',
/
&SYSTEM
ibrav= 14,
celldm(1)=10.2856,celldm(2)=1.0,celldm(3)=1.0,
celldm(4)=-0.759357,celldm(5)=-0.759357,
celldm(6)=0.518714
nat = 6 ,
ntyp = 2 ,
nbnd = 30 ,
ecutwfc = 30.0000000000,
ecutrho = 160.000,
occupations = 'fixed' ,
/
&ELECTRONS
electron_maxstep = 100,
conv_thr = 1.0e-07,
mixing_mode = 'plain' ,
startingpot = 'atomic' ,
startingwfc = 'atomic' ,
mixing_beta = 0.300000000,
mixing_ndim = 8,
diagonalization = 'david_overlap' ,
diago_david_ndim = 8,
/
&IONS
ion_dynamics = 'bfgs',
pot_extrapolation = 'first_order',
wfc_extrapolation = 'first_order',
/
ATOMIC_SPECIES
O 15.999 O.pw91-van_ak.UPF
Ti 47.867 Ti.pw91-nsp-van.UPF
ATOMIC_POSITIONS crystal
Ti 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000
Ti 0.75000 0.25000 0.50000
O 0.20800 0.20800 -0.00000
O 0.95800 0.45800 0.50000
O 0.54200 0.04200 0.50000
O 0.79200 0.79200 -0.00000
K_POINTS automatic
6 6 7 0 0 0
*
On 8/19/06, Ezad Shojaee <ezadshojaee at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
> i am trying to calculate phonon frequencies at gamma point of
> TiO2(anatase)
> and i have relaxed the structure enough (i think )but performing PH.Xafter
> scf, 2of 18 frequencies are minus!
> i want to know that what technical problem do i have? does anyone
> calculate
> these beore?
> any suggestion will be appreciated
>
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