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Can the material with multiple principal components obtain the phonon scattering rate through gpumd? If so, which function is it? If not, can the operational details be explained clearly #587

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For phonon transport in solids, regardless of the chemical composition, one can use the HNEMD method to calculate the diffusive spectral thermal conductivity $\kappa(\omega)$ and use the NEMD method to obtain the ballistic thermal conductance $G(\omega)$. Then one can calcualte the specral phonon mean free path $\lambda(\omega)=\kappa(\omega)/G(\omega)$. If you can calculate the spectral phonon group velocity $v_{\rm g}(\omega)$ by some means, you can get the spectral scattering time $\tau(\omega)=\lambda(\omega)/v_{\rm g}(\omega)$.

As for the interatomic potential that is required to drive the MD simulations, you can always train an NEP model based on quantum-mechanical reference data.

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