PhononMaker#

class atomate2.vasp.flows.phonons.PhononMaker(name='phonon', sym_reduce=True, symprec=0.0001, displacement=0.01, min_length=20.0, prefer_90_degrees=True, get_supercell_size_kwargs=<factory>, use_symmetrized_structure=None, bulk_relax_maker=<factory>, static_energy_maker=<factory>, born_maker=<factory>, phonon_displacement_maker=<factory>, create_thermal_displacements=True, generate_frequencies_eigenvectors_kwargs=<factory>, kpath_scheme='seekpath', code='vasp', store_force_constants=True, socket=False)[source]#

Bases: BasePhononMaker

Maker to calculate harmonic phonons with VASP and Phonopy.

Calculate the harmonic phonons of a material. Initially, a tight structural relaxation is performed to obtain a structure without forces on the atoms. Subsequently, supercells with one displaced atom are generated and accurate forces are computed for these structures. With the help of phonopy, these forces are then converted into a dynamical matrix. To correct for polarization effects, a correction of the dynamical matrix based on BORN charges can be performed. Finally, phonon densities of states, phonon band structures and thermodynamic properties are computed.

Note

It is heavily recommended to symmetrize the structure before passing it to this flow. Otherwise, a different space group might be detected and too many displacement calculations will be generated. It is recommended to check the convergence parameters here and adjust them if necessary. The default might not be strict enough for your specific case.

Parameters:

  • name (str = "phonon") – Name of the flows produced by this maker.

  • sym_reduce (bool = True) – Whether to reduce the number of deformations using symmetry.

  • symprec (float = 1e-4) – Symmetry precision to use in the reduction of symmetry to find the primitive/conventional cell (use_primitive_standard_structure, use_conventional_standard_structure) and to handle all symmetry-related tasks in phonopy

  • displacement (float = 0.01) – displacement distance for phonons

  • min_length (float = 20.0) – min length of the supercell that will be built

  • prefer_90_degrees (bool = True) – if set to True, supercell algorithm will first try to find a supercell with 3 90 degree angles

  • get_supercell_size_kwargs (dict = {}) – kwargs that will be passed to get_supercell_size to determine supercell size

  • use_symmetrized_structure (str or None = None) –

    allowed strings: “primitive”, “conventional”, None

    • ”primitive” will enforce to start the phonon computation from the primitive standard structure according to Setyawan, W., & Curtarolo, S. (2010). High-throughput electronic band structure calculations: Challenges and tools. Computational Materials Science, 49(2), 299-312. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.05.010. This makes it possible to use certain k-path definitions with this workflow. Otherwise, we must rely on seekpath

    • ”conventional” will enforce to start the phonon computation from the conventional standard structure according to Setyawan, W., & Curtarolo, S. (2010). High-throughput electronic band structure calculations: Challenges and tools. Computational Materials Science, 49(2), 299-312. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.05.010. We will however use seekpath and primitive structures as determined by from phonopy to compute the phonon band structure

  • bulk_relax_maker (.BaseVaspMaker or None) – A maker to perform a tight relaxation on the bulk. Set to None to skip the bulk relaxation

  • static_energy_maker (.BaseVaspMaker or None) – A maker to perform the computation of the DFT energy on the bulk. Set to None to skip the static energy computation

  • born_maker (.BaseVaspMaker or None) – Maker to compute the BORN charges.

  • phonon_displacement_maker (.BaseVaspMaker or None) – Maker used to compute the forces for a supercell.

  • generate_frequencies_eigenvectors_kwargs (dict) – Keyword arguments passed to generate_frequencies_eigenvectors.

  • create_thermal_displacements (bool) – Bool that determines if thermal_displacement_matrices are computed

  • kpath_scheme (str = "seekpath") – scheme to generate kpoints. Please be aware that you can only use seekpath with any kind of cell Otherwise, please use the standard primitive structure Available schemes are: “seekpath”, “hinuma”, “setyawan_curtarolo”, “latimer_munro”. “seekpath” and “hinuma” are the same definition but seekpath can be used with any kind of unit cell as it relies on phonopy to handle the relationship to the primitive cell and not pymatgen

  • code (str = "vasp") – determines the DFT code. currently only vasp is implemented. This keyword might enable the implementation of other codes in the future

  • store_force_constants (bool) – if True, force constants will be stored

  • socket (bool) – If True, use the socket for the calculation

property prev_calc_dir_argname: str#

Name of argument informing static maker of previous calculation directory.

As this differs between different DFT codes (e.g., VASP, CP2K), it has been left as a property to be implemented by the inheriting class.

Note: this is only applicable if a relax_maker is specified; i.e., two calculations are performed for each ordering (relax -> static)