[DFTB-Plus-User] DFTB phonon modes and dielectric constant tensor

Joshi Vimal joshivimal217 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 11:10:25 CEST 2025


Sir I have done calculation of second derivative and got Hessian.out file
now how to extract frequency from that file.
Q

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025, 2:31 pm Thomas Niehaus, <thomas.niehaus at univ-lyon1.fr>
wrote:

> Dear Joshi,
>
>
> https://dftbplus-recipes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/moleculardynamics/startinggeometry.html#vibrational-modes
>
> Best Thomas
> On 6/25/25 04:05, Joshi Vimal wrote:
>
> Thanku sir for sharing recipes but I am little bit confused.
> Will you please help me by sharing any input file to run vibrational
> frequency calculation for non periodic system
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2025, 1:13 am Alejandro Trejo Banos via DFTB-Plus-User, <
> dftb-plus-user at mailman.zfn.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>> Due to some technical difficulties, I was unable to respond to Joshimar
>> Vimal's question directly; however, if he sees this, you could use
>> phonopy; there is a recipe in here
>> https://dftbplus-recipes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/properties/phonopy.html
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>> hope it helps
>>
>> Additionally, I have a question in this regard for developers and users:
>> Is there a way to calculate the dielectric tensor? I am performing
>> calculations on binary semiconductors, and to incorporate the LO-TO
>> splitting in phonopy, the tensor is needed alongside the Born charges. I
>> have already calculated the Born charges,  but I am still trying to find a
>> way to calculate the dielectric tensor. Thank you in advance for your time
>> and assistance in this matter your expertise is highly valued
>>
>>
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>> Dr. Alejandro Trejo Baños
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