tools-phonon-dispersion

In this repository we provide the code to deploy an online service for the interactive visualization of the phonon modes. A live demo is currently hosted on the Materials Cloud web portal.

This tool leverages the phonon visualizer developed by Henrique Miranda.

Contributors

• Snehal Kumbhar, Elsa Passaro (EPFL) [tool development]
• Giovanni Pizzi (EPFL) [tool development]
• Henrique Miranda (UCL, Belgium) [development of the original phonon visualizer]
• Thibault Sohier (EPFL) [support on the python code and on the examples]
• Chara Cignarella (EPFL) [bug reporting and fixing]
• Miki Bonacci (PSI) [support on the examples]

License

The code is open-source (licensed with a MIT license, see LICENSE.txt).

Online service/tool

The following is a screenshot of the selection window:

And the following is a screenshot of the main output window, showing the phonon dispersion and the corresponding interactive eigenvectors.

Docker image and running the tool locally

Docker images are automatically built and hosted on DockerHub under the repository materialscloud/tools-phonon-dispersion.

If you want to run locally the latest version, you can execute:

docker pull materialscloud/tools-phonon-dispersion:latest
docker run -p 8093:80 materialscloud/tools-phonon-dispersion:latest

and then connect to http://localhost:8093 with your browser.