Re: [Wien] Phonopy

2016-05-01 Thread Rajneesh Chaurasiya
Dear Gavin, Are you sure that after changing the space group of material it will not effect the phonon calculation. because after changing the space group of crystal structure all the atom position changes and calculate forces on that atoms will not be same as the previous one space group. I have v

Re: [Wien] Phonopy

2016-05-01 Thread Gavin Abo
Take NaCl for example. Its cubic unit cell (alpha = beta = gamma = 90 deg) has space group 225, a lattice constant (a = b = c) of about 5.6 ang, and two nonequivalent positions (Cl: 0, 0, 0; Na: 0.5, 0.5, 0.5) [ http://www.ilpi.com/inorganic/structures/nacl/ ]. First, do it the wrong way usi