LPHON_POLAR
LPHON_POLAR = .TRUE. | .FALSE.
| Default: LPHON_POLAR | = .FALSE. |
Description: LPHON_POLAR includes dipole-dipole corrections in the computation of the phonon dispersion. For this mode, PHON_DIELECTRIC and PHON_BORN_CHARGES must also be set.
If the material is polar (i.e. has more than one atom type), a special treatment of the long-range dipole-dipole interaction is required to obtain a smooth phonon dispersion. This is activated by setting LPHON_POLAR=.TRUE. and supplying the static dielectric tensor (PHON_DIELECTRIC) and the Born-effective charges (PHON_BORN_CHARGES) which can be obtained in a separate VASP calculation using the LEPSILON or LCALCEPS tag. The dipole-dipole part of the interatomic force-constants is evaluated using an Ewald summation with the number of vectors determined by the cutoff length (PHON_G_CUTOFF).
| Mind: Only available as of VASP 6.3.2. |
Related tags and articles
QPOINTS, LPHON_DISPERSION, PHON_NWRITE, PHON_DIELECTRIC, PHON_BORN_CHARGES, PHON_G_CUTOFF