Electron-phonon coupling and phonon calculation for SOC+U system

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Electron-phonon coupling and phonon calculation for SOC+U system

#1 Post by yujia_teng » Wed Jul 30, 2025 3:34 am

Dear admin,
Does e-ph coupling and usual phonon calculation in VASP support SOC+U? I'm able to run usual phonon calculation with 5.4.4 with SOC+U on without error, but not sure if the related tags are ignored or not.

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Re: Electron-phonon coupling and phonon calculation for SOC+U system

#2 Post by ahampel » Wed Jul 30, 2025 9:39 am

Hi Yujia,

thank you for reaching out to us on the official VASP forum.

Phonon calculations support SOC and +U and the combination and should show any problems. For electron-phonon coupling SOC is supported and tested. However, +U is not tested that much. It should work but please check results carefully, i.e. start with the simple LDAUTYPE=2 and you can compare a no U calculation with a calculation with U=0.01 or similar. Let us know if you encounter any problems.

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Alex H.


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