PhononBands

This page gives hints on how to compute phonon bands, density of states, interatomic force constants, sound velocity … with the ABINIT package.

Introduction

The Fourier transformation of the phonon dynamical matrices generates interatomic force constants in real space, as explained in [Gonze1997a]. Backtransforming to reciprocal space gives the Fourier interpolation of the initial phonon band structure. After such Fourier interpolation, the DOS can be produced (see [Lee1995]), the phonon eigenenergies plotted along lines, the slope of the energy versus cristalline momentum evaluated (to give sound velocity).

The two-phonon sum and difference spectra can also be obtained, see dossum.

For the related computation of temperature-dependent properties, see topic_Temperature.

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Tutorials

• The tutorial Response-Function 2 (RF2) presents the analysis of the DDBs that have been introduced in the rf1 tutorial. The computation of the interatomic forces and the computation of thermodynamical properties is an outcome of this tutorial.