Dear Chris,
I think that the dipole correction is not working in ph.x, but
you could try the new Coulomb cutoff technique implemented
in both pw.x and ph.x by Sohier and coworkers, see
assume_isolated = '2D'
Regards
Thomas
On 06.04.2018 15:57, Christoph Wolf wrote:
Dear all,
I am curious if someone could shed some light onto the following:
I am currently calculating phonons of MgO using QE 6.2.1 and NC PPs
from the ONCV library (requirement of post-processing with YAMBO).
Bulk properties (lattice and vibrational) are very nicely reproduced.
When moving to slabs (1,2,3 layers with ca 20 A vacuum, dipfield
correction applied) phonons become considerably "ugly" (very high
energy imaginary modes). I was wondering if there is a "trick" to get
better phonons in slabs with polar surfaces either during ph.x (I
tried tighter convergence down to 10e-16, higher k grids in pw.x,
higher q grids in ph.x without much success) or post-processing (not
sure if the usual ASR are applicable in slabs)?
Since calculations on the slabs are rather time consuming any
suggestion is very welcome!
A nice weekend to everyone from San Sebastian,
Chris
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Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
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