Finite temperature requires the entropy. So you would not compare enthalpies, but free energies. The main contribution to the entropy comes from the phonons. Thus you must calculate the phonons and from the corresponding phonon-DOS you can get the "-TS" contribution to the free energy.

Phonons can be calculated with WIEN2k and the help of programs like PHONOPY or PHONON (see unsupported software at www.wien2k.at) and one would do what is called the "quasiharmonic" approximation (i.e. calculate the phonons at various volumes).
This is straight forward and has been done many times in Literature.

However, this approach fails eventually, since in the harmonic approximation some phonons might be instable, giving imaginary frequencies.

In that case, anharmonic terms are needed and several different schemes are discussed in Literature without consensus about the best method. In any case, all these calculations become very expensive.

On 5/18/19 8:57 PM, Subhasis Panda wrote:
Dear experts,
I've used Wien2k and subsequently Gibbs2 package to study structural phase transition between two polymorphs of a material. The enthalpy vs pressure plot at T=0K gives me the transition pressure for a particular transition. However, when I try to plot difference of Gibbs free energy at P=0 GPa it doesn't cross zero. But, the literature is showing transition temperature for the phase transition.
So, my questions are
1) How to determine the transition temperature at P=0 GPa or at any pressure?
2) How do we get the variation of transition pressure with temperature?
Looking forward for your valuable comments.
Any reference in this direction is most welcomed.
Thank you in advance for the help.

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