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Direct ab initio calculation of the dynamical matrix

Materials Science 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper there is presented method for ab initio calculation of the phonon spectra. The method is based upon a direct calculation of the dynamical matrix via second derivatives of the total energy. The pseudopotential technique in plane-wave basis set was used to calculate the total energy within the local density approximation (LDA). For the change of the electron density there is derived the self-consistent equation which is solved analytically with no use of iterations. In this paper the attention is paid only to non-metallic systems.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906236,
  title  = {Direct ab initio calculation of the dynamical matrix},
  author = {Marek Hytha and Antonin Simunek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906236},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, no figures

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