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Calculated Raman susceptibilities breaking symmetry

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:38 am
by yongliu.yl
Dear All,

I tried to calculate the Raman spectra of alpha-Al2O3 following the tutorials, you can find my input file in the attachment.
al2o3-nlo-alfa.in
main input file
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The phonon frequencies consist with the available results very well, but the Raman susceptibilities do not obey the symmety. The Raman active Mode Eg, which Raman tensor should look like
[c 0 0] [ 0 -c -d]
[0 -c d] or [-c 0 0].
[0 d 0] [-d 0 0]
However, the calculated Eg tensors of 376 cm^(-1) mode are
[-0.000003129 -0.000001740 -0.000308830] [-0.000001740 0.000003129 -0.000171767]
[-0.000001740 0.000003129 0.000171767] or [0.000003129 0.000001740 -0.000308830]
[-0.000308830 0.000171767 0.000000000] [-0.000171767 -0.000308830 0.000000000]
Actually, all calculated Eg Raman tensors break the symmety.
al2o3-nlo-ana.out
anaout file
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I am not sure this is a bug in abinit-6.12.2, since the Raman tensors of Ag mode follow the symmety obtained in the same calculations.
I just want to know what happen there. Please help me with it. Thank you in advance.
PS: you can also find the ddb and anaout files in the attachment