First-Principles Determination of the Soft Mode in Cubic
- 26 May 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 78 (21), 4063-4066
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.78.4063
Abstract
A direct approach to calculate the phonon dispersion using an ab initio force constant method is introduced. The phonon dispersion and structural instability of cubic are found using a supercell method in the local-density approximation. The force constants are determined from the Hellmann-Feynman forces induced by the displacement of an atom in the fcc supercell. This size of the supercell gives “exact” phonon frequencies at Brillouin zone points. The phonon dispersion curves show a pronounced soft mode at the point, in agreement with the experimentally observed cubic to tetragonal phase transition.
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