There is a Review of Modern Physics by Baroni et al that is the most complete reference. The phonon PRB of 1991 is very complete on technicalities.
The "Handbook of Materials Modeling" has also a recent and concise review, that happens to be freely available in the sample pages section: http://www.springer.com/east/home/physics?SGWID=5-10100-22-48576847-detailsPage=ppmmedia|samplePages nicola Eric Abel wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could point me to some references on the > theory behind ph.x, i.e. how to calculate a dynmaical matrix from the > results of a scf calculation. Basically I would like to try to > understand the nuts and bolts of the program, and therefore some > background theory is of necessity. > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > _______________________________________________ > Pw_forum mailing list > Pw_forum at pwscf.org > http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Nicola Marzari Department of Materials Science and Engineering 13-5066 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139-4307 USA tel 617.4522758 fax 2586534 marzari at mit.edu http://quasiamore.mit.edu
