Dear Arini,

You should do some test first in the pristine unit cell structure before going 
forward to the supercell calculations. 

In principle, you could lower down even more that cutoff (and the qpoint for 
the fock operator as well). Usually a good threshold is ~10^-5 Ry/bohr on every 
atomic force component.

Note: this threshold is different from the one of the relax. So you should 
check that when changing your variables (ecutfock in this case) all your forces 
don’t change within this threshold.

HTH,
Lorenzo 

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> Il giorno 11 apr 2023, alle ore 20:45, Arini Kar via users 
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> 
> Dear users,
> 
> I am trying to run phonon calculations using phonopy. I am using norm 
> conserving pseudopotential. Can I use ecutfock = 2*ecutwfc instead of the 
> default value in the scf calculations? Would it affect the accuracy of force 
> calculations?
> 
> Thanking you.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Arini Kar
> 
> PhD student 
> 
> Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
> 
> 
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