[xcrysden] vibrational frequency

[Tone Kokalj]

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 00:08 -0500, Chenchen Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> I just start to use xcrysden and want to use it to visualize
> vibrational frequencies calculated from VASP.But I don't know how to
> do this.Can anyone help me with this?

Not the frequencies (eigenvalues), but the normal modes you can.

You can plot the eigenmodes as arrows. This means you use the
Display->Forces features. Of course you first need to prepare a proper
XSF files, see:

http://www.xcrysden.org/doc/XSF.html#__toc__5

Regards, Tone

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