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["matthieu verstraete" <matthieu.jean.verstraete@gmail.com>]

Hello

Abinit can certainly calculate the soft modes (find publications by Ghosez or Vanderbilt, for some examples). If you don't have any, your calculation is probably not converged:

1) if the electronic temperature is too high (providing you are using one)
2) if the lattice is strained the frequencies can be pushed positive
3) if you don't have enough kpoints or a large enough ecut.
4) if your qpoint grid is not fine enough (or does not contain the qvector where the phonon goes soft) then you will miss the negative mode, depending on the details of the phonon interpolation.

there may be other reasons as well. Are you certain your compound is ferroelectric? Are you just reproducing a tutorial or did you adapt it - 

Again, and as usual: if you write to forum you should include all system details and follow  Nettiquette!!   http://www.abinit.org/community/?text=netiquette

If you had done so we could have looked at your input and told you which was the problem, instead of trying to guess!

Matthieu

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:43 PM, <mozhganamini@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear all,

I have done RF1 lesson for one of the ABO3 compounds for getting it's phonon
frequencies and I have gotten some real frequencies. But, I know that this
compound has soft mode in TO1.
Can Abinit code calculates these soft modes or I did some wrong thing in my
calculations?

Thanks alot in advance,
mozhgan amini

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