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### Is it right to neglect very small imaginary frequencies?

tldr: This is something of an eternal debate. IMHO very small imaginary frequencies can be okay, but it depends on your system and needs. As you might see from the various comments above, there are ...
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### What are the methods that can be used to ensure that an optimized geometry is a local minimum?

This depends on what you are studying. For molecular systems without periodicity, the simplest approach is to carry out a vibrational frequency analysis and confirm that there are no imaginary modes. ...
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### Morse potential for phonons in solids instead of the harmonic potential approximation?

Some people do: In this paper there is a system coupled to a bath of Morse oscillators rather than a bath of harmonic oscillators, but it is not exactly solvable, they used a numerical approach called ...
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### How to map molecular vibrations into lattice phonons?

If you index the molecule and the atoms in the crystallographic unit cell the same, you could extract the displacement from the phonon eigenvectors and the displacement from the normal modes. By ...
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### What is the largest system for which vibrationally resolved electronic spectra have been simulated using ML-MCTDH?

When you say MCTDH, I am assuming you mean the vanilla MCTDH without employing the multi-layer structure. In which case 24 modes seem to be the best known result (higher modes can be done, I have ...
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### Where did the "Computational Chemistry Comparison and Benchmark DataBase" find its scaling factors for vibrational specra?

I have a different page on the NIST website (https://cccbdb.nist.gov/vibscale.asp) that gives uncertainties in the scaling factors. I believe many of these were actually established by NIST themselves ...
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### Mismatched number of normal modes calculation in GAMESS

Firstly, a minor correction: a non-linear molecule has 3N-6 normal modes, not 3N-5 modes. Linear molecules have 3N-5 normal modes. GAMESS automatically prints out some values in normal coordinate ...
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### What is the largest system for which vibrationally resolved electronic spectra have been simulated using ML-MCTDH?

The developers of MCTDH from Heidelberg reported in the year 2000 [1] The largest system treated with MCTDH to date is the pyrazine molecule, where all 24 (!) vibrational modes were accounted for....
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### Alternatives to VEDA 4 vibrational energy distribution analysis software?

LocVib (part of MoViPac) I have never used VEDA before, but according to the paper, it decomposes the normal modes into vibrations of atomic groups, bond stretching, bending or something else. ...
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### How to eliminate imaginary frequencies during a Gaussian geometry optimization?

Use tighter convergence criteria. If the geometry is already converged with default convergence criteria, then just using tighter convergence thresholds should work. Look at the tight option in the ...
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### What's the point of doing high accuracy spectroscopy calculations?

Your arguments can be said about numerous other articles (if not all but a very few ones). What seems negligible in scientific impact at the publication time might be heavily influenced by other ...
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### Transformation between two different sets of molecular vibrational normal coordinate systems

The paradox discovered by @HansWurst comes by the assumption that it is possible to treat both minima on the 1D PES separately and define a separate set of normal coordinates for them. 3N normal ...
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### Transformation between two different sets of molecular vibrational normal coordinate systems

I agree with Emil Zak's answer that normal mode coordinates from different minima should, in general, be put together with special care. However, relating the two different sets of normal mode origin ...
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### LDA vs GGA for vibrational properties?

This is a partial answer focusing on comparing phonons calculated with LDA or GGA in solids. LDA tends to overbind solids, which means that LDA equilibrium volumes tend to be smaller than experimental ...
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### Morse potential for phonons in solids instead of the harmonic potential approximation?

Even in treating molecular vibrations, the Morse potential is not always the best, because: There's cases where the potential is more "harmonic" than "Morse-like", for example in ...
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### Phonon Calculations and Vibrational Modes

Let $u_{pi\alpha}$ be the displacement of atom $\alpha$ in the basis located in supercell with position $\mathbf{R}_p$ and in Cartesian direction $i$. With this "Cartesian" description of ...
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### Quantum harmonic oscillator, zero-point energy, and the quantum number n

The quantum number n simply represents the different energy levels given by the harmonic oscillator. $\mathbf{n=0}$ does not correspond to a given temperature, but its relative occupation to other ...
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### Optimization and vibrational analysis of excited state CO using GAMESS

I cannot see your output file, but I am pretty sure that the program is running into an error when starting the optimization i.e. when it is trying to generate the guess hessian. You are using ...
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### Package for computing properties of excited vibrational states

LEVEL Given a well-behaved electronic potential energy curve for a diatomic molecule, LEVEL will "automatically locate and calculate expectation values for all vibration–rotation levels". ...
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### Numerical Frequency Parallelization in ORCA

This is exactly what ORCA actually does. For example if you have 48 cores, then ORCA does 48 displacements at once, each using only a single core. This is trivial to implement and is one of the major ...
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