The coefficients in the dynamical matrix file, or in the force constant file, 
are not divided by 1/sqrt(M). You can change the masses in the file directly 
(in electron mass units) or use the amass(...) option of q2r/matdyn

hth
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Lorenzo Paulatto - Paris
On Feb 3 2022, at 8:40 pm, Antoine Jay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear QE users,
> I would like to change the masses of an already calculated dynamical matrix 
> to evaluate the change in the frequencies induced by the isotopes (without 
> doing DFPT again).
> I see that dynmat and matdyn requier masses but I am wondering if the 
> starting coefficients that are saved in the .dyn file are already multiplied 
> by 1/sqrt(M_iM_j),
> or if only the diagonalized matrix (frequencies and eigenvectors) takes these 
> coefficients into account.
> Which procedure should I do?
>
> Regards,
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