Martin Brehm suggested avoiding Wannier localization and to use Voronoi (see <a href="https://brehm-research.de/files/spec_tutorial_2018.pdf">spec_tutorial_2018.pdf</a>). Unfortunately this is for a fairly large liquid (R)-propylene oxide cell with 320 atoms.<div><br></div><div>Currently, I am trying to rework this tutorial for methanol to get a feeling for TRAVIS.</div><div><br></div><div>In the tutorial linked above, Martin writes:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Times New Roman">"The “&PERIODIC_EFIELD” section controls the external electric field which you will need to<br>apply for Raman and ROA spectra. The intensity is specified in atomic units. In the tutorial,<br>we use a value of 5 · 10 −3 a.u. = 2.57 · 10 9 V m −1 , which we found to be a good compromise.<br>Too small values lead to noisy spectra, whereas too large values might leave the linear regime<br>of electronic polarizability."</font><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 4:36:14 PM UTC+1 tkuehne wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Please also check if the Wannier localization has ALWAYS converged. <div>In that respect the JACOBI approach is the most robust. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Thomas Kühne<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 23.02.2022 um 15:25 schrieb Sam Broderick <<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">wave...@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">See fawzi's post on Oct 20, 2010, 1:38:58 PM: Problems of IR and dipole calculation</span><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">He recommends looking at the Wannier Center movement and consider centering.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 2:14:52 PM UTC+1 Sam Broderick wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear IR-Colleague<div><br></div><div>6'000 or 60'000? If it is 6'000, that would be the reason.</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, what were your TRAVIS inputs?</div><div><br></div><div>Rgds</div><div>Sam<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 1:31:29 PM UTC+2<span> </span><a rel="nofollow">zsh1...@gmail.com</a><span> </span>wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p>Hello everyone,</p><p> I am trying to do vibrational analysis for gas phase system. I am following the tutorial "Calculating Vibrational Spectra from Molecular Dynamics". Initially i have done massive equilibration of a single methanol system for 6000 steps. After that i use the following example CP2k input file to simulating a trajectory with wannier centers for 60000 steps. Then, I calculated the IR spectra with<span> </span><a href="http://methanol_wannier.xyz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://methanol_wannier.xyz/&source=gmail&ust=1645784683917000&usg=AFQjCNFZkN65Unjfy7Q7JnXxOunWq8H-SQ">methanol_wannier.xyz</a><span> </span>file using Travis software. Unfortunately, I don’t get a good IR spectrum because of it doesn’t show peaks at 200, 1000, 1500 and 3700 cm-1 and it has very noise. Would you please guide me why I don’t get a good IR spectrum?</p><p><br></p><p>Here i am attaching my IR spectrum and the input files of massive equilibration and the wannier center for a single methanol.</p><p>Please help me on this.</p><p>Thanks.</p><p><img alt="IR.png" width="534px" height="322px" src="https://groups.google.com/group/cp2k/attach/9563cce89867/IR.png?part=0.1&view=1"><br></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">--<span> </span></span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cp2k" group.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to<span> </span></span><a href style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" data-email-masked rel="nofollow">cp2k+uns...@googlegroups.com</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">.</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">To view this discussion on the web visit<span> </span></span><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cp2k/65704ff7-7bd2-4854-886c-074a23c4f9a0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cp2k/65704ff7-7bd2-4854-886c-074a23c4f9a0n%2540googlegroups.com?utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dfooter&source=gmail&ust=1645784683917000&usg=AFQjCNH9o4ZSK0KRhfn_zE7bik83TNybfw">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cp2k/65704ff7-7bd2-4854-886c-074a23c4f9a0n%40googlegroups.com</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline!important">.</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br><div>
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