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  • From: "D. R. Hamann" <drh@bell-labs.com>
  • To: forum@abinit.org
  • Subject: Re: [abinit-forum] Unstable eigenvalue found in the calcualtion of elastic constant
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:46:27 -0500

Dear Yong,

The anaddb warnings are not your fundamental problem.  Judging from the clamped-ion compliance tensor results in your anaddb output, all the diagonal elements of the elastic tensor from your abinit RF run were negative.  If you send the output files from that run and your preceeding GS run, maybe I can help diagnose your problem. (I know these are large - please compress them into a tar.gz archive.)

Sincerely,
Don Hamann



Yong Liu wrote:
Dear abiniters:
       I've done a RF calculation of elastic constant. In the anaddb
output file, there are two warnings:
   instr9 : WARNING -
      Acoustic sum rule violation met : the eigenvalues of accoustic
           mode are too large at Gamma point.
     Increase cutoff energy or k-points sampling.
     The three eigenvalues are:    6.669281E-02    1.580351E-02   
          6.669281E-02
   instr9 : WARNING -
     Unstable eigenvalue detected in force constant matrix at Gamma
          point. The system under calculation is physically unstable.
Base on the previous experience, the first warning may be ignored.
But I have no idea what the second one means. The clamped-ion and
relaxed-ion elastic tensor are quite strange shown in the attachment with 
the input file.
What's wrong with this calculation? 
I appreciate any advice. Thanks a lot in advance.


Sincerely.
Yong Liu

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Yong Liu,
Institute of Inorganic Materials,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Zhejiang University,PR China
Doctoral student

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# Here ABINIT input file # Input the GS wavefunction and # Calculate elastic constant # of PP-PT (No.87, I4/m) #Test prtvol 0 prtkpt 0 ndtset 1 #Dataset1: Initial self-consistent run # irdwfk1 1 # iscf1 3 # kptopt1 1 # tolvrs1 1.0d-18 #Dataset2: Response Function calculation : electric field perturbation and phonons irdwfk1 1 iscf1 3 kptopt1 2 nqpt1 1 qpt1 0 0 0 rfphon1 1 rfatpol1 1 20 rfstrs1 3 rfdir1 1 1 1 tolvrs1 1.0d-12 #SCF calculation kptopt 1 kptrlatt -5 -5 -3 -2 -2 3 2 5 0 shiftk 5.0000E-01 5.0000E-01 5.0000E-01 nstep 120 diemac 6.0 #Definition of the planewave basis set ecut 45.0 nband 88 ecutsm 0.5 #Common Data Definition of the unit cell acell 1.6683970832E+01 1.6683970832E+01 1.6683970832E+01 rprim -6.9104015593E-01 6.9104015593E-01 2.1195991552E-01 6.9104015593E-01 -6.9104015593E-01 2.1195991552E-01 6.9104015593E-01 6.9104015593E-01 -2.1195991552E-01 typat 1 3 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 ntypat 3 natom 20 xred 6.4872470792E-01 6.6373918712E-01 3.1246389507E-01 3.5741920514E-01 3.1783170685E-02 3.8920237585E-01 4.9509640059E-02 2.3798128987E-01 2.8749092995E-01 7.1036151449E-01 8.3396059727E-01 5.4432211180E-01 1.0390469327E-01 4.7337848088E-01 5.7728317416E-01 6.6373918712E-01 3.5127529205E-01 1.5014479204E-02 3.1783170688E-02 6.4258079484E-01 6.7436396555E-01 2.3798128987E-01 9.5049035992E-01 1.8847164982E-01 8.3396059727E-01 2.8963848547E-01 1.2359908278E-01 4.7337848087E-01 8.9609530671E-01 3.6947378761E-01 3.5127529206E-01 3.3626081285E-01 6.8753610493E-01 6.4258079483E-01 9.6821682929E-01 6.1079762416E-01 9.5049035992E-01 7.6201871010E-01 7.1250907005E-01 2.8963848548E-01 1.6603940270E-01 4.5567788821E-01 8.9609530671E-01 5.2662151909E-01 4.2271682584E-01 3.3626081286E-01 6.4872470792E-01 9.8498552080E-01 9.6821682929E-01 3.5741920513E-01 3.2563603446E-01 7.6201871011E-01 4.9509640057E-02 8.1152835018E-01 1.6603940271E-01 7.1036151450E-01 8.7640091723E-01 5.2662151911E-01 1.0390469327E-01 6.3052621239E-01 znucl 82 8 22

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