Dear users,
I am trying to calculate phonon dispersion and DOS of graphene. I
followed the procedure used for silicon in the tutorial with the necessary
changes. But the phonon dispersion i obtained is not exactly the same as the
one in literature. The ZO branch is particularly distorted and for one of the
acoustic branches, the frequencies are slightly -ve near the gamma point.
Any suggestions or thoughts in this regard are welcome.
I want to know the answer for the following questions as well
i) Is "16x16x1" MP-grid size dense enough to obtain accurate result for
graphene or do i need to increase it further?
ii) What should be the value for "nbnds" for graphene? I used 8; but i read
that for metals you may have to use a higher number. I tried 12 as well but i
didnot see much difference in the end result.
iii) In specifying the k-space coordinates to obtain frequencies at a point in
the file "*.matdyn.in", what are the units for the co-ordinates? are they just
(2*pi/alat) or crystal (in terms of reciprocal lattice vectors)?
Thanks
Ajit
