According to my experience, phonon calculation is very sensitive to the groud state. Therefore, a strict relax (by pw.x) is required before using ph.x, for example, higher cut-off, more k-points and smaller threshold.<br><div>--<br>GAO Zhe<br>CMC Lab, MSE, SNU, Seoul, S.Korea<br>
</div><br>At 2011-05-26 17:15:53£¬yhho <yhho@pub.iams.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<div><font size="2">Deae all,</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I'm trying to do the <font color="#ff0000">phonon
dispersion</font> calaulation of Graphene.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Although the jobs have done sucessfully, the result are
not great.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I think it may be coused by the wrong setting of my <font color="#ff0000">q2r.in</font> or <font color="#ff0000">matdyn.in</font>.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">But some of terms in thoese input file are unfamiliar to
me.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Please give me some suggestions about setting them.
Thanks.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div>
<div><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><ph.in></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff">phonons of
AuC<br> &inputph<br> tr2_ph=1.0d-14,<br>
ldisp=.true.,<br> nq1=4, nq2=4, nq3=4<br> amass(1)=
12.0107<br> prefix='AuC',<br> outdir='./'<br>
fildyn='AuC.dyn',<br> /<br></font></font></div></div>
<div><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><q2r.in></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2">&input fildyn='AuC.dyn', zasr='crystal',
flfrc='AuC444.fc' /</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#ff0000" size="2"><matdyn.in></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2"> &input<br>
asr='simple', amass(1)=12.0107,<br> flfrc='AuC444.fc',
flfrq='AuC.freq'<br> /<br> 13<br> 0.00000000
0.00000000 0.00000000 1<br> 0.00000000
0.12500000 0.00000000 2<br> 0.00000000
0.25000000 0.00000000 3<br> 0.00000000
0.37500000 0.00000000 4<br> 0.00000000
0.50000000 0.00000000 5<br> 0.08333250
0.45833250 0.00000000 6<br> 0.16666500
0.41666500 0.00000000 7<br> 0.24999750
0.37499750 0.00000000 8<br> 0.33333000
0.33333000 0.00000000 9<br> 0.24999750
0.24999750 0.00000000 10<br> 0.16666500
0.16666500 0.00000000 11<br> 0.08333250
0.08333250 0.00000000 12<br> 0.00000000
0.00000000 0.00000000 13<br></font></div>
<div><font size="2">Otherwise, I have another question about the last part of
matdyn.in.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Does that mean the points such as gamma, M, K
,gamma?</font></div>
<div><font size="2">I'm not sure about that...</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Thanks a lot.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">Best regarts,</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">Yu Han Ho</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font color="#0000ff"></font> </font></div>
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